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BEYOND THE Barricade, Britain’s longest running musical theatre concert tour, featuring past principal West End performers from Les Misérables, arrives in Galway next week as part of its is 20th Anniversary celebrations.

Athlone is home to one of the greatest international pop sensations of the 20th century. In 1929, John McCormack was paid $500,000 to feature in a Hollywood film. This is just one of the many fascinating stories you can hear in Matthew Gilsenan’s ‘John McCormack – A Life in Song and Story’ at the Dean Crowe Theatre on Saturday, September 21.

The National Museum of Ireland - Country Life, Turlough Park, Castlebar, is celebrating Culture Night 2019 with a talk by bestselling author John Connell in the museum galleries at 7pm on Friday, September 20.

It’s that time of year ago when Claremorris Musical Society (CMS) begins preparations for yet another fantastic show to be staged in Claremorris Town Hall and Theatre from January 29 to February 1 next year.

The ‘The Newfangled Four’ vocal quartet will perform in Mayo this September as one of only five dates in Ireland. These young men hail from California, and with their brilliant comedy combined with their sublime voices, they are one of the best loved a cappella and barbershop singing groups on this planet. With a huge following also on Social Media, many of their videos have over one million Youtube views.

Following on from her headline performance at Aiken Promotions’ Harvest Music Festival back in 2017 at Westport House, Cliona Hagan will perform at Westport Town Hall Theatre on Friday, September 20 as part of her Nationwide Theatre Tour.

Folkism presents No Crows in Garbo's on Friday September 6.

JULIE IS a film student in London in the late 1980s. She is trying to escape her life of privilege, but lives in her parents' flat in Knightsbridge. Yet, her attempts to make a film in Sunderland about a working class family are honest and admirable.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the annual Lady Gregory-Yeats Autumn Gathering at Coole Park and Thoor Ballylee, playwright Marina Carr, and academic Melissa Sihra, will conduct a playwriting workshop at Thoor Ballylee.

Alumni of NUI Galway’s Drama and Theatre Studies will perform an original play, The Kinds of Sex You Might Have at College, as part of a limited national tour to Irish universities between September and October 2019 with stops currently scheduled in Galway, Limerick, Dundalk and Dun Laoghaire.