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DRUID THEATRE Company is no stranger to the stage at home and abroad, but radio plays are a different matter. That changes this month when Druid performs Sorry, Wrong Number.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

The Little Cinema & Galway City of Film 48 Hour Challenge is celebrating its fifth iteration this year on the weekend of August 26-29.

A sense of belonging is essential in life because it places us in a grouping or place that we hope will allow us to share moments of joy and collegiality. It enables us to appreciate support when there is sadness and loss. It makes us do unusual things in the name of being part of a tribe or a gang. We stand on muddy sidelines and roar on the teams in our colours; we stay up late to watch a rowing race across the other side of the world because we do so with hope, knowing that there will either be elation or disappointment at the end of it. We consume culture that means something to us and which gives us a little gift of wisdom at the end of each performance.

Hollywood’s Patrick Dempsey has spent his weekend along the Wild Atlantic Way. After months of filming Disenchanted in Wicklow, the actor, who is best known for playing Doctor Derek “McDreamy” Shepard in the Emmy and Golden Globe award winning American medical TV series “Grey’s Anatomy” has finished in Enniskerry and journeyed west to explore the rugged coastline of Mayo and Galway.

A PLAY about love, about art, about relationships, ambition, desire, the declines of the Anglo-Irish gentry, and the emergence of a new society - Anton Chekhov’s tragi-comedy The Seagull, in the acclaimed adaptation by Thomas Kilroy, is all of these things.

IT HAS been a long time since we have been able to say “Let’s go out to the cinema this evening”, but this summer we can, and indeed being ‘out’ at the cinema - literally - will be the highlight of summer 2021 in the city.

THE BLACK Box Theatre car park and grounds will be the location for Galway's biggest party of the summer - the live drive-in park’n’party.

Galway actor Nicola Coughlan, best known for her roles in Derry Girls and Bridgerton, has been nominated for the IFTA Rising Star 2021 award.

TG4, in partnership with the Creative Ireland Programme of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, will celebrate Cruinniú na nÓg 2021 with a new creative series for children Cruthaím and a TikTok Drama for teenagers.