Review of Forgotten Me at the Town Hall
Theatre Reviews Thu, Aug 28, 2014
CURRENTLY RUNNING at the Town Hall studio is Cathal Leonard’s debut play Forgotten Me, a two-hander performed by himself and Gerry Howard and directed by Danielle Destephano.
Read more ...Theatre review: Ballyturk
Theatre Reviews Tue, Jul 15, 2014
“BEAUTIFUL, HILARIOUS, dark as death.” So tweeted actress Olwen Fouéré after seeing the opening of Enda Walsh’s new play Ballyturk, which got the Galway International Arts Festival off to a flying start at the Black Box yesterday evening.
Read more ...Theatre review: Nora Barnacle – Signora Joyce
Theatre Reviews Thu, Jun 19, 2014
WHILE DUBLINERS were observing Bloomsday by donning Edwardian costumes and retracing Leopold Bloom’s feted journey around the capital, in Galway the day saw the opening of Ann Marie Horan’s very enjoyable one-woman play Nora Barnacle – Signora Joyce.
Read more ...Flying to the moon with Marie Jones
Theatre Reviews Thu, Sep 19, 2013
TOWN HALL Theatre audiences should be in for a treat next week when Marie Jones’s most recent play, Fly Me To The Moon, arrives for a four night run at the venue.
Belfast native Jones is one of Ireland’s most prolific and best-loved playwrights with more than 20 plays to her credit, including major hits like A Night in November, Women on the Verge of HRT, and, most famously, Stones In His Pockets.
Read more ...Silent returns to Town Hall
Theatre Reviews Thu, Jun 13, 2013
WINNER OF the Fringe First and Herald Angel Awards at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe and the Argus Angel at the 2012 Brighton Festival, Silent is back in Galway.
Written and performed by Pat Kinevane, directed by Jim Culleton, and staged by Fishamble: The New Play Company, Silent is at the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday June 20 and Friday 21 at 8pm.
Read more ...Decadent gets its dues
Theatre Reviews Thu, Jan 24, 2013
FOR DIRECTOR Andrew Flynn and Decadent Theatre Company, the early weeks of 2013 have brought a very happy New Year in the shape of three nominations in the coveted Irish Times/ESB Theatre Awards.
Read more ...Looking back on theatre 2012
Theatre Reviews Thu, Dec 27, 2012
As the Renmore Panto prepares to see out 2012 in its usual colourful style, for the rest of Galway’s theatre community it’s time to pack away the greasepaint, well-thumbed scripts, and assorted props and costumes, and reflect upon another year of enterprising and imaginative dramatic activity. It has been a year with some indelible highlights, both from locally-based companies and visiting ensembles, and continuing displays of commitment, energy, and imagination from the city’s smaller and emergent troupes which itself merits a standing ovation given the straitened financial circumstances under which they operate.
Read more ...Gun Metal Grey returns
Theatre Reviews Thu, Oct 18, 2012
NEXT WEEK in the Town Hall sees the welcome return of Mick Donnellan’s Gun Metal Grey from the tireless Truman Town Theatre.
Read more ...Carthaginians’ ‘sense of hope and release’
Theatre Reviews Thu, Feb 23, 2012
FRANK MCGUINNESS’ powerful play Carthaginians, written as an elegy for the dead of Bloody Sunday, comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week in a new production from Derry’s Millennium Forum directed by one of Ireland’s best known actors, Adrian Dunbar.
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