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A vibrant new theatre production celebrating one of the most exciting periods in the cultural history of Tuam and Galway is set to premiere at the Mick Lally Theatre this November. Shamtown, written by Saw Doctors manager Ollie Jennings, will receive its first full professional production from November 15 to 22, 2026, under the direction of award-winning theatre director Andrew Flynn, with musical direction by Carl Kennedy.

Galway Arts Centre’s Nuns Island Theatre will this weekend host an array of events - for young people and by young people - covering theatre, film, visual arts, and literature - as part of Cruinniú na nÓg 2023.

In a year that has been so challenging to artists and creators of artistic work, Roscommon Arts Centre is once more reinforcing its commitment to supporting artists in their creation of work by continuing its 'Artist in Residence' programme throughout 2021.

Fregoli Theatre Company announces a new work-in-progress edition of its latest work Cross Street. A virtual reading of its new comedy play, offers hints of horror while exploring mental health issues and can be seen for one night only on Saturday November 28 from 7pm.

Fregoli Theatre Company announces a new work-in-progress edition of its latest work Cross Street. A virtual reading of its new comedy play, offers hints of horror while exploring mental health issues and can be seen for one night only on Saturday November 28 from 7pm.

IT IS, as Stephen Fry noted at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, “a very dark time for the performing arts”, and just as venues re-opened and shows were taking place once more - albeit on a small scale - Galway stands on the brink of a county wide lockdown.

THE FREGOLI Heart Project, a theatre show about different forms of love, presented through movement, dance, imagery, storytelling, and voice, is being revived for a performance at NUI Galway this month.

IN AN era of rising xenophobia, abusive Twitter trolls, and polarised politics, Fregoli Theatre Company reaffirms the joy of love in its new show, The Fregoli Heart Project, which will premiere at the Cúirt Festival of Literature on Monday April 8.

A COMPANY called THEY run an online programme, streaming six nights a week. Subscribers gain access to Yule, Catherine, Billy, and Una, people their own age, who act out their intense, personal, miseries, so that, by comparison, the subscribers (known as ‘clickers’) will feel better about their own lives.

Coming soon to Nun’s Island Theatre, Fregoli present Tape by American playwright Stephen Belber, a play which the company previously presented at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008 where it received a five star review.