On Saturday 25th January Foster Allen will bring their Timeless Memories Tour to the Theatre Royal, featuring tracks from 10 of their most popular and favourite albums. The story of Foster &Allen began back in the seventies when Mick and Tony were playing in Country Music bands around Ireland. In 1975 they got...
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WALLIS BIRD RETURNS WITH HER BRAND-NEW ALBUM ‘WOMAN’
WALLIS BIRD RETURNS WITH HER BRAND-NEW ALBUM ‘WOMAN’
A remarkably polished yet emotionally raw collection, Woman is a daring synthesis of Bird’s songwriter roots and passion for, among other genres, soul, it’s eleven songs long but 37 minutes short: pointed, powerful, and packed with truths and levity. Written and almost exclusively performed by Bird, with regular...
The Red Iron Delivers
The Red Iron Delivers
Much was expected of Jim Nolan’s – The Red Iron – a play for Waterford, and mingling on the opening night at Garter Lane was a proud feeling as the great and good, the dreamers, the schemers, the shapers, the bright lighters, sipped Blackwater Gin and listened to the Barrack St Concert Band.The...
Dirty Dusting
Dirty Dusting
Dressing Room 1 Productions are thrilled to present a national Irish tour of the hilarious play , starring the inimitable Mary Byrne of X Factor. Dressing Room 1 Productions are proud to bring this hilarious show to nine venues across the country including Theatre Royal Waterford on Thursday November 7th. Hold onto...
Shackleton at Garter Lane
Shackleton at Garter Lane
ONE of the most exciting, and highly anticipated productions in recent years comes to Garter Lane on Friday, November 1 and Saturday November 2. Shackleton tells the story of Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s failed voyage to cross the Antarctic continent in 1914 and is a visually spectacular re-telling of...
CATS at Theatre Royal
CATS at Theatre Royal
Southeastern Theatre Group Waterford make a welcome return to Waterford’s Theatre Royal stage for five nights only from Tuesday 29th October to Saturday 2nd November at 7.30pm nightly with their production of the sensational Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical “CATS”.Southeastern Theatre Group are the award winning and...
Memoirs of a Ghost at Garter Lane
Memoirs of a Ghost at Garter Lane
Model. Muse. War photographer. Friend and lover of Picasso and Man Ray. Lee Miller was all these things. So why has the world forgotten her? Inspired by an extraordinary true story, the play “Memoirs of a Ghost” brings to life a forgotten 20th century icon in a night of spellbinding theatre. Lee Miller started out as...
Joseph Ready to Rock
Joseph Ready to Rock
In 1979, under the guidance of Fr Séan Melody and Brendan Drohan, De La Salle College Musical Society presented their first show; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. Forty years on De La Salle are back with another production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber classic which is certain to entertain and thrill when...
Theatre Royal Gig Guide
Theatre Royal Gig Guide
Halycon Days (Wednesday, October 9th) Soap stars Bryan Murray and Una Crawford O’Brien who play Bob Charles and Renee Phelan in RTE’s Fair City are en route to Waterford. The couple will star in the multi-awarding hit play Halycon Days which will run for one night only on Wednesday, October 9th. The hilarious and...
Wet Paint at Theatre Royal
Wet Paint at Theatre Royal
Fresh from his acclaimed performance as Billy Murphy in the TV series The Young Offenders and the feature film of the same name which preceded it, Shane Casey returns to the stage of the Theatre Royal on Saturday, October 5th as part of the 2019 national tour of WET PAINT, a play he has also written. It’s 2005-the...
Waterford Youth Arts 25 years of Summer Theatre
Waterford Youth Arts 25 years of Summer Theatre
Each year Waterford Youth Arts (WYA) bring in a professional theatre director to work with their teenage cast to create a play. This year they decided to go for a devised work with Grace Dyas who is a young dynamic writer and director from Dublin. You can see the fruits of their labour when they present their new...
Rigor Mortis & Ghosting
Rigor Mortis & Ghosting
Theatre Royal, August 15th, 16th and 17th. Rigor Mortis performed by Michael Quinlan and Paul Connaughton, directed by Aidan Kelly with Sound Design by Jamie Beamish.Waterford, Ireland. Mourners arrive at a church only to find the deceased missing. Jimmy wakes up in his sitting room hungover to Jesus, only to find a...