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FAMOUS FOR its spellbinding music and sublime arias, especially ‘Una Furtiva Lagrima’, Donizetti’s ever-popular romantic comedy The Elixir Of Love has it all, from unrequited love, to devious deception and thwarted passion.

UP-AND-coming Galway ensemble Thereisbear! launched Druid’s emerging artists FUEL residency programme in fine style on Tuesday night at the Mick Lally Theatre with the premiere of No Show, written and directed by Peter Shine.

GALWAY ACTORS Workshop will host A Big Day of Play, an improv theatre intensive course, which will be taught by performer and facilitator Órla McGovern.

ON MONDAY February 2 1959, The Listowel Drama Group presented the premiere performance of Sive, John B Keane’s debut play, thus launching the career of one of Ireland’s most popular writers.

Just over 22,500 attended the 18th Baboró International Arts Festival for Children over the course of the nine-day festival which ended last Sunday. True to form, this year’s festival really did have something for everyone with parents, children, toddlers and babies enjoying beautifully imaginative and inspiring shows from as far away as Australia and the USA, as well as a wonderful Irish showcase.

BABORÓ IS currently in full swing, delighting and bewitching young and old alike, and it continues until this Sunday, October 19. Among the weekend highlights is The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy, from Australia’s Slingsby Theatre Company.

“NAOMI BERRILL is leading a generation of new cello players that re-invent the approach to the instrument in order to show its many possibilities.”

Baboró International Arts Festival will be celebrating a big birthday when it kicks off this weekend. It is 18 years since the first festival in 1997, and Baboró continues to create unforgettable moments of awe and wonder for children and families in Galway and beyond.

THE RIGHT of children to enjoy art and culture is the focal point of a new exhibition, Citizens Of The World, Now, which opened in the KBC Bank Hub, Eyre Square, this week.

FOR IT’S 34th International Concert Season, Music for Galway will celebrate the cello - an instrument MFG’s artistic director Finghin Collins enthusiastically described as “this fabulously versatile instrument with its extensive range, noble sound, and curvaceous body”.