Town Hall Theatre

Galway City


With a 400-seat main auditorium and 52-seat studio space, the Town Hall Theatre features Broadway and West End shows, orchestras, dance and occasional films.

It was built in 1820 as a courthouse and later used as a town hall and a cinema, before being revived in 1996 as Galway’s municipal theatre.


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