Public transit Galway railway station Phone +353 91 569 777 | Opened October 1995 Province Connacht | |
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Location Galway, Republic of Ireland Address 1 Courthouse Square, Galway, Ireland Capacity 393 (Main Auditorium); 60 (Studio Space) Similar Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe, Galway International Arts Festi, Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork Opera House, Galway City Museum Profiles | ||
The Town Hall Theatre (Irish: Amharclann Halla na Cathrach) is a theatre in Galway, Ireland.
History
The building which houses the Town Hall Theatre was erected in the 1820s and served first as a courthouse and later as a town hall. In the 1950s, the building was converted into a cinema and was used for film screenings until it fell into disrepair in the 1990s. Galway Corporation (now Galway City Council), with the assistance of a grant from the Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, undertook a major refurbishment of the building between 1993–95 and it reopened as a state of the art, 393-seat Municipal Theatre in October 1995.
References
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