Galway International Arts Festival
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‘A hug runs all the way through this’: How to Catch a Star, based on the Oliver Jeffers book, returns to the Ark
This puppet show, which has been a huge hit for Branar, draws similar reactions from children all over the world
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Jennifer Walshe’s new opera, created with Mark O’Connell, is like nothing else Irish National Opera has staged
Why the Moon Travels review: Eye-opening show is not just a retelling of Traveller folktales
Galway International Arts Festival: For the audience, there are hints of things we want to hear more about
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Galway International Arts Festival 2025: Simon Stephens’ short one-act monologues are strong, forthright and beautiful
Mikel Murfi’s underwater production is unusual, intriguing and oddly life-enhancing
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Riders to the Sea and Macbeth: A magnificent horror unbalancing nature
Theatre: Druid’s Galway International Arts Festival double bill
Beckett sa Chreig: Guth na mBan review – Beckett’s vision given a haunting, evocative twist
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Sabotage review: Joyously chaotic festival opener has all the fun of the circus
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Ready for launch: Mark O’Connell and Jennifer Walshe on Mars, their new collaboration
Galway International Arts Festival stages the premiere of an Irish opera in which four women astronauts embark on a Martian voyage
Garry Hynes: ‘My wife was taken from me in the blink of an eye. My whole life’s changed’
The Druid founder has a reputation as a demanding director. But she has mellowed – and theatre is a consolation after her wife was ‘taken from me in the blink of an eye’
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Druid at 50: Joe O’Shaughnessy’s photographic history of the Galway theatre company
An exhibition in Galway charts the company’s remarkable evolution since being founded by Garry Hynes, Marie Mullen and Mick Lally in 1975
A Druid show and a sandwich for 50p: How Mick Lally, Marie Mullen and Garry Hynes began their theatre company 50 years ago
‘We were chancing our arm,’ Garry Hynes says of the company that brought superlative, expansive, intimate, skilled theatre to Galway and then the world stage
An Irish industrial folly spawns a new generation of cutting-edge creativity
Galway International Arts Festival 2025: Interface’s This Too Will Pass, at the Carrolls salmon hatchery, and Funeral for Ashes, by Conor Maloney and John Conneely
A Cork woman in the circus: ‘In transition year, I wrote to a circus dance company asking if I could do an internship’
Gracie Marshall quit school to train to be a performer. Now Sabotage, in which she stars, is on its way to Galway International Arts Festival
Druid Theatre to mark 50th anniversary with Synge-Shakespeare double bill
Presentation in Galway this summer will feature Riders to the Sea and Macbeth
A middle-class millennial at a Kneecap gig: am I just cosplaying at republicanism?
The bilingual west Belfast hip-hop trio take Galway by storm with an act that is in reality more satire than sectarianism
The Map of Argentina review: Sexual desire and forbidden passion in a drama that clutches you to its chest
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Marina Carr’s play features Maeve Fitzgerald as married mother Deb, who has fallen madly in love with another man
Duck Pond review: Bouncy, bendy bodies in a beautiful, acrobatic take on Swan Lake
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: The Australian contemporary-circus troupe Circa bring superlative skill to their take on Swan Lake
Cultural Exchange Rate review: Intriguing, moving and far more than the sum of its parts
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Tania El Khoury’s live installation tells the story of the Lebanese artist and her family
Unspeakable Conversations review: Thoughtful and thought-provoking
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Show explores important themes around quality of life and right to life
Somnium review: Dark story of sexual violence becomes a stunning dream show
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Brú Theatre’s production is absorbing, beautiful and disturbing
Enda Walsh’s Changing Room and Dining Room review: A sea swimmer adrift and a furious B&B-owner
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Two unrelated pieces of theatre-installation differ in tone and execution
Endgame review: Druid’s exquisite production brings a lightness of step to Beckett’s indestructible tragicomedy
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Garry Hynes directs Rory Nolan, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen and Bosco Hogan
Reunion review: Zinger of a play doesn’t flag for a second
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: With an ensemble of excellent actors, Mark O’Rowe’s new ensemble piece is a joy
Welcome to the ‘jungle’: Galway International Arts Festival gets off to a startling start
Life-sized hybrid-creature sculptures set to draw thousands of visitors over next two weeks
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: 15 events to catch this year
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: here are 15 unmissable things to see and do at this year’s festival
Mark O’Rowe: ‘The plays were violent and sexual. But I can’t go back there. Everything has to be new to me’
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: The Tallaght playwright on new play Reunion, his changing preoccupations, and the stress of TV work
Patricia Piccinini: ‘We’re hard-wired to be suspicious of difference’
The Australian artist exhibits a wilderness of imagined creatures for the Galway International Arts Festival. The works challenge our empathy and revulsion
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