Jim Nolan explains to Catherine Power the process behind the writing of his new play The Red Iron Jim Nolan’s eagerly awaited new play The Red Iron opens in Garter Lane on November 10th. This new play has garnered much attention over the last few weeks and I was delighted to have the opportunity to catch up with Jim...
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CAT at the Theatre Royal
CAT at the Theatre Royal
(Thursday and Friday, July 12th and 13th)CAT is the story of ‘Dave the Cat’, and how he was sacked from the original production pf that famous musical ‘Cats’ on opening night, and has never quite recovered. As he stands on stage in his ‘magnificent’ cat costume, he lets us into a world of backstage drama, romance and...
The Red Iron at Garter Lane
The Red Iron at Garter Lane
Jim Nolan’s new play, The Red Iron runs at Garter Lane from November 10th to 30th. September 2017. As crowds gather on Waterford’s Quay to greet the county’s vanquished All-Ireland hurling team, the now middle-aged members of a teenage gang return to the city’s long abandoned Red Iron Bridge to remember their...
CINDERABBA
CINDERABBA
Ready to rock at St Ursula’s If last week’s dress rehearsals are anything to go by, CinderAbba at St Ursula’s primary school this week is a production not to be missed. The show, which tells the story of Cinderella in a clever rhyming script intermingled with many well known and loved Abba songs is the brain child of...
June 7th deadline for Ted & Mary Regan Bursary applications
June 7th deadline for Ted & Mary Regan Bursary applications
The Ted and Mary O’Regan Arts Bursary committee wish to remind intending applicants that the closing date for this year’s award is this Friday, June 7th at 5pm. The Bursary was inaugurated in 2005 to honour the memory of one of Waterford’s best loved and respected couples. The purpose of the Award is to assist an...
The joy of SprOg!
The joy of SprOg!
Kids’ Spraoi festival set to be “totally awesome”! A group of enthused pupils from St John of Gods Primary School set the SprOg ball rolling at Garter Lane Arts Centre on Thursday last, enjoying art and cupcakes at the 2019 festival’s launch.Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Class members, accompanied by their teachers,...
Panto fun in Kill
Panto fun in Kill
PANTO fun returned to Kill once again this April with the staging of the hugely entertaining ‘Cinderella…ish’ at the Gealach Gorm Theatre. The production was staged to full-houses for five separate performances from Thursday evening April 11th to Sunday evening April 14th which included a Sunday matinee. With Martha...
The Japanese Film Festival at Garter Lane
The Japanese Film Festival at Garter Lane
THE line-up for this year’s Japanese Film Festival at Garter Lane from Thursday to Saturday, April 18th to 20th will feature a diverse and packed programme of films, including work of the most acclaimed filmmakers from contemporary Japanese cinema, and covering a variety of themes, genres and topics. It will all be...
It's time to get off the books!
It's time to get off the books!
Rehearsals ramp up for WMS production of ‘South Pacific’ “Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.” – Terrence Mann Beating a path up and down the lab corridor of Mount Sion Secondary School with a book in hand for a spot of rote learning is a...
Works in Progress with Waterford Youth Arts
Works in Progress with Waterford Youth Arts
Works In Progress (WIP), which takes place at Garter Lane on Tuesday, April 16th (8pm), is an opportunity for drama members of Waterford Youth Arts (aged 15 to 19) to take complete creative control. They will write, stage, direct, choreograph and perform pieces of theatre, contemporary dance, circus routines, as well...
John B Keane reimagined
John B Keane reimagined
John B Keane’s timeless tale of young love, materialism, family life, and women’s place in the world gets the contemporary treatment by one of Ireland’s most promising up and coming theatre groups, Fourth Wall, in Garter Lane on Saturday, April 6th. Though set in the 1960s, ‘Sive’ is carefully casted, and stunningly...
'Spotless' at the Theatre Royal
'Spotless' at the Theatre Royal
Multi-award-winning theatre company Rise Productions return to the Theatre Royal on Friday, April 12th (8pm) with a brand-new play from acclaimed writer Gary Duggan. Directed by Aoife Spillane-Hinks, starring Ciara O’Callaghan (Fair City) and Emma Willis (The Young Offenders) ‘Spotless’ charts the story...
