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Galway Arts Festival 2010 Programme Press Release

GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL 12TH-25TH JULY 2010, GALWAY, IRELANDThe Hofesh Shechter Dance Company, Druid Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, New York Theatre Workshop, National Theatre of Scotland, Brad Mehldau,...

Triple Musical Feast at Festival Big Top

GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL presents JOSH RITTER, DAMIEN DEMPSEY, CATHY DAVEY Live at the Festival Big Top Triple Bill Fisheries Field, Galway Friday, 23rd July 2010 Doors 7pm...

Eighties Electro-Pop at Festival Big Top

GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL presents HUMAN LEAGUE and HEAVEN 17 Live at the Festival Big Top Double Bill Fisheries Field, Galway Saturday, 24th July 2010 Doors 7pm Eighties...

RODRIGO Y GABRIELA, THE DIVINE COMEDY and BRAD MEHLDAU FOR GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL 2010

GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL presents RODRIGO Y GABRIELA, THE DIVINE COMEDY and BRAD MEHLDAU Latin, Pop and Jazz Greats to perform at Galway Arts Festival Mexican duo Rodrigo Y...

The Human League, Heaven 17, Josh Ritter, Damien Dempsey and Cathy Davey for Festival Big Top

The first shows of the Galway Arts Festival 2010 line up have been announced Eighties electro-pop at Festival Big Top Galway Arts Festival will host a night to...

National Theatre of Scotland's Unique Tour of Galway

GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL Presents National Theatre of Scotland's unique tour of Galway One of the most prestigious theatre companies in the world The National Theatre of Scotland, are set to...

Family and County Events at Galway Arts Festival

GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL 12th - 25th July 2010 Galway Arts Festival will launch the 2010 festival programme at the Radisson Blu Hotel on Friday 28th May. The festival will run from the 12 -...

Submission Guidelines - Galway Arts Festival 2011

SUBMISSIONS FOR 2010 ARE NOW CLOSED Galway Arts Festival 11th-24th July, 2011Companies and artists wishing to be considered for presentation in the 2011 Galway Arts Festival are welcome to submit...

Galway Arts Festival 2009 Highlights Video now online

Our highlights video from Festival 2009 is now available for viewing in our screening room here Relive memorable moments from last year's festival including performances by Michael Clark...

2010 Galway Arts Festival Gift Vouchers now on Sale

Get true value from your gift this Christmas. They'll still be thanking you in August! Galway Arts Festival Vouchers now available. Click on the link below to go to our shop....

Galway Arts Festival 2010 Calendar on Sale Now

Galway Arts Festival has just launched its 2010 Calendar featuring a stunning selection of photographs of artists, actors and musicians from the wide and diverse programme of Irish and...

Festival 2009 - What it said in the Press

Galway Arts Festival 2009 was subject to widespread coverage in the local, national and international press. Some examples of what was said are " The Festival's broad canvas...

Galway Arts Festival: Small but perfectly formed - Michael Billington, The Guardian, Wednesday July 30th 2008

“But the peculiar joy of Galway is that it covers the artistic waterfront without, like its famous Scottish sister, offering us a deluge. I've rarely encountered a better curated festival...

Trad receives rave reviews down under

Galway Arts Festival's production of Mark Doherty's play Trad has received rave reviews at the Perth International Arts Festival. In her review Victoria Laurie of The Australian called the...

Galway Arts Festival’s Trad to tour Australia

Galway Arts Festival's award-winning production of Mark Doherty's play, Trad, has been invited to one of Australia's premier festivals, the Perth International Arts Festival which takes...

30th Festival Celebration Video now online

A special video celebrating 30 years of Galway Arts Festival, featuring many of the artists who have appeared at the Festival, is now available in our Screening Room (see link below)...

Irish Times Review: Stephen Petronio

Stephen Petronio and Rufus Wainwright, what a combination they make. The first half of Stephen Petronio's triple bill- developed both with existing Wainwright music (Bud Suite) then in...

Galway one of its top 10 places to visit in 2007

The UK MSN website has listed Galway as one of its top 10 places to visit in 2007. The piece on the site (shown below) highlights the role of Galways' Festivals in making Galway the great place...

Galway Arts Festival and National Irish Bank nominated for Business2Arts Best Collaboration in the Community award

The Allianz Business2Arts Arts Awards celebrate imaginative and effective business partnership with the arts. The winners will be announced at a gala dinner on Wednesday 30 May in the Mansion...

Latest Review of Trad in London -- "The Times"

TRAD By Mark Doherty Bush Theatre Running until 29 April 2006 THE days when the English could make fun of the Irish are, let

World Premiere of Stuart Carolan
Druid by arrangement with Galway Arts Festival present Empress of India, a new play by one of Ireland

Latest Review of Trad in London - "Evening Standard"
Trad A craic at the Irish in true Beckett style If, at some point in his long Parisian exile, Samuel Beckett had fancied a look back in comic fondness at his native Ireland, he might have...

Latest Review of Trad in London - "London Theatre Review"
Trad A mad fable set in a surreal universe, Mark Doherty turns years of stereotyping and Anglo-Irish mockery on its head in Trad, his new play showing at the Bush. Read More >...

Latest reviews of "Trad" at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Trad ***** Surreal comedy about tradition How much of who you are, your values, your opinions, your character is determined by the past? Not only your past but that of your family, your...

Galway Arts Festival's production of Mark Doherty's Trad makes UK Premiere
Trad by Mark Doherty directed by Mikel Murfi UK Premiereat Assembly Rooms for Edinburgh Festival Fringe Supported by Culture Ireland August 5th - 29th (not 8th, 15th and 22nd)

Galway Arts Festival's production of Mark Doherty's Trad makes Australian Premiere
Trad by Mark Doherty directed by Mikel Murfi Australian Premiereat Union Hall, Adelaide University for Adelaide Fringe Festival Supported by Culture Ireland March 9th - 19th A fable about...

LATEST REVIEW OF "TRAD" AT ADELAIDE FRINGE FESTIVAL
Trad ***** Thank you, APA, for bringing this delicate morsel of eloquent Irish culture to our Fringe. It's Waiting for Godot meets Dancing at Lughnasa insofar as it is an absurdist meditation on...

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