Galway International Arts Festival

The Guide: Galway International Arts Festival, Pillow Queens and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end

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Stewart Copeland of The Police: ‘You can’t beat an old song, but I bang the sh*t out of them’

The composer and drummer’s show, Police Deranged, at Galway International Arts Festival, recalibrates Police songs for a full orchestra

Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan take on Beckett: ‘To understand Endgame is to understand that you can’t understand Endgame’

Galway International Arts Festival 2024: For Druid’s Endgame, Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan are immersed in Beckett. It’s surpringly enjoyable, they say

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What’s Next For?: The producer returns to his home city for a colossal show in the Big Top at Galway International Arts Festival

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Druid’s magnificent new staging of the O’Casey trilogy should be a source of national pride

Galway International Arts Festival 2023: 12 moments we’ll remember

Including The Pulse, Colm Meaney’s Galway tribute, David Mach’s exploding installation, Luke Murphy’s explosive dance, and the epic DruidO’Casey

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You’ll See...: Ulysses for kids, with a star turn from the charming, funny, knowing Helen Gregg

Theatre: Branar’s take on James Joyce is surprisingly simple for such a complicated novel – and a great introduction to its appeal

Life & Times of Michael K: A magical staging of JM Coetzee’s sweeping, epic tale

Galway International Arts Festival 2023: Handspring’s astonishing puppetry brings Michael K and his mother to life

DruidO’Casey: A brilliant ensemble cast brings Garry Hynes’ vision to life in back-to-back productions

Galway International Arts Festival: Seán O’Casey’s Plough and the Stars, Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock follow Druid’s Synge, Murphy and Shakespeare cycles

Volcano review: Edge-of-your-seat entertainment – you won’t have seen anything like this before

Galway International Arts Festival 2023: Luke Murphy’s dance-theatre piece about two men going slowly crazy in deep space is tense, troubling and touching

Every Brilliant Thing: An enjoyable, interactive and life-affirming monologue about mental health

Galway International Arts Festival 2023: Clare Barrett is vulnerable and utterly charming in managing the vagaries of improvised audience participation

Not a Word: An evocative, heartrending play about yearning and forgotten lives

Galway International Arts Festival 2023: In the hour-long show there is physicality, mask and music, but there’s not a word

Bedbound: Colm and Brenda Meaney shine as Father and Daughter in Enda Walsh’s most Beckettian play

Galway International Arts Festival 2023: The acting is excellent, but this early play has moments that now strike a crude, adolescent note

Cloakroom: A gorgeous slice of adolescence about to blossom into new possibilities

Galway International Arts Festival 2023: Zara Devlin provides the voice for a ballroom attendant in Enda Walsh’s latest Rooms installation

The Pulse: Jaw-dropping acrobatics, exquisite singing, ferocious skill

Galway International Arts Festival 2023: Gravity & Other Myths’ outstanding show stretches the limits of what a human body can do

The Pulse: ‘Circus meets opera’ show set to demolish fourth wall at Galway festival

In Spain, they bet on weather being on their side. In Ireland for the Galway International Arts Festival, they won’t

How to run a festival: Beware of stilt walkers in the rain

Gemma Tipton offers a beginner’s guide to taking up a new cultural pursuit

Martha Wainwright: ‘Hopefully I can write another Bloody Mother F***ing Arsehole, as that’ll pay the mortgage’

After her forthcoming brace of Irish gigs, the singer plans to take a year off to digest all that has happened since her divorce, and to begin writing again

Galway International Arts Festival: 15 events you don’t want to miss

Including DruidO’Casey, The Saw Doctors, Bedbound and more, this year’s festival programme has heft and depth

David Mach: ‘If there’s a revolution coming, I hope it’s coming bloody soon, and I’ll be in it’

The Oligarch’s Nightmare is the artist’s fourth installation at the Galway International Arts Festival

‘This will be Colm Meaney’s first time on stage in Ireland in 40 years’: Galway arts festival unveils 2023 line-up

Galway International Arts Festival 2023, which takes over the city in July, also includes DruidO’Casey and the edge-of-the-seat acrobatics of The Pulse

Moments from a festival: Galway wraps with a new way of bringing it back Home

Geoff Sobelle’s show one of the many highlights of this year’s vibrant, audience-engaging festival

Galway is hot and hopping as the international arts festival returns with a bang

After two years of restricted programmes, there’s a real sense of the festival’s proud presence on the streets

The Last Return set to explore the tension of queuing at Galway Arts Festival

Director Sara Joyce and writer Sonya Kelly bring ‘an enormously triggering scenario’ to the stage

Galway Arts Festival: ‘We’re back. (We never really went away)’

Galway International Arts Festival returns to full scale with international and Irish work across the city

Galway International Arts Festival: Plenty of high notes

Organisers pulled together significant festival from wreckage of Covid

Galway Arts Festival 2021: The best of this year’s events

Festival is back with a dose of Medicine, the Mirror Pavilion and an in-person VR experience

Galway International Arts Festival 2021 rescheduled for end of August

Covid-19 restrictions also force postponement of city’s Big Top gigs to summer 2022

There is a randomness to the way Covid-19 affects some places more than others

That is a nightmare for anyone trying to put on an event such as a festival

Epiphany and Dead Dog in a Suitcase: theatre shows to catch this week

Druid Theatre Company stages Brian Watkins’s new play Epiphany, a serious comedy with Joycean inspiration, Cornwall’s Kneehigh turn The Beggars Opera on its head

Creative flights as Galway arts festival soars

Programme straddling popular and esoteric work attracts record numbers

Building Enda Walsh’s world: ‘I like the danger of having a blank piece of paper’

Jamie Vartan’s set designs transport audiences – and that’s before the crows move in

When grief and art become a gruelling, physical process

Incantata review: the staging of Paul Muldoon’s elegy for a lover and a fellow artist is grief as an artform

Music fans warned over ticketing sites after Brian Wilson scam

Punter paid almost €1,000 for two tickets that did not exist for ‘Pet Sounds’ gig

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Syrian conflict and mother and baby homes among political themes in the two events

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