Mars review: INO’s exhilarating space-travel opera comes from a mind exploding with ideas
Jennifer Walshe’s new opera, created with Mark O’Connell, is like nothing else Irish National Opera has staged
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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
T5 and Sea Wall double bill review: Two very different responses to trauma pack an emotional punch
Galway International Arts Festival 2025: Simon Stephens’ short one-act monologues are strong, forthright and beautiful
Mikel Murfi’s underwater production is surely one of the most unusual, intriguing and oddly life-enhancing things about
Galway International Arts Festival 2025: Oh…. is gob-smackingly skilled
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
Theatre: Sarah Jane Scaife’s vision builds on the work that Company SJ started in 2021 with Laethanta Sona/Happy Days
Sabotage review: Joyously chaotic festival opener has all the fun of the circus
Galway International Arts Festival 2025: A gorgeous, playful, accomplished start to a festive fortnight
As Galway’s arts festival opens, the city’s long-expected cultural space inches slowly towards planning this year
Artistic director ‘embarrassed’ at how ‘dreadfully inadequate Galway is in terms of cultural infrastructure’
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’
The Guide: Galway arts festival, The Script, Taylor Tomlinson and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
July 12th-18th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
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
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