This week a legend of our times arrives in Dublin, with John Grant playing the Olympia on March 3rd. There are other great gigs such as Damien Jurado, Dylan Tighe, Sean Millar and Rufus Wainwright. There’s also a few new plays around, with Dreamland and Snow Angels at the Project and Conservatory at the Peacock among others. Check out the full list below…
Theatre
The Abbey – Sive by John B Keane continues (until 12th April). We thought it was lots of fun. Our review is here.
Conservatory is at the Peacock from March 7th.
The Gate – The Vortex by Noel Coward continues (until March 22nd). Our review is here.
Project Arts Centre – Dreamland starts on the 3rd and runs until the 8th. Snow Angels runs from the 4th until the 15th.
Smock Alley has the fantastic Collaborations festival featuring over 30 different pieces, which runs until March 8th. Check out ‘Twit’ this week.
Viking Theatre is quiet this week.
The New Theatre has Retreat from the 3rd to the 8th of March.
Samuel Beckett Theatre – has At Sea from March 5th – 7th.
The Gaiety Theatre has Stones in his pockets from March 5th until 22nd.
The Civic Theatre has Faith from March 3rd until 8th and Making Lemonade form March 5th until 8th.
Theatre Upstairs has Angels until the 8th March.
Bewleys Cafe Theatre has ‘ In Dog Year’s I’m Dead’ until March 8th.
Chancery Lane has Terminus from March 7th – 18th.
Bord Gais Energy Centre – Dance till Dawn – from March 4th until 8th.
Movies
Light House Cinema – 8pm on 7th March 2014 – Wes Anderson Fancy Dress Party
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll season is on at the IFI, with part three ‘Rock n Roll’ running this month, with:
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL – Tuesday 4th March 2014- 18.30
AFTERNOON TALK: THE ROLLING STONES ON SCREEN 1963-2012 – Tuesday 4th March 2014 – 16.00
THIS IS ELVIS – Saturday 8th March 2014 – 16.00
EXPRESSO BONGO – Sunday 9th March 2014 – 16.00
Goldfrapp: Tales Of Us – Tuesday 04 March 2014 19:30
Gigs
John Grant, John Grant, John Grant! I have these tickets for about six months, so have been looking forward to this one for a while now! It’s not all about John though, with Damien Jurado, Rufus Wainwright, Dylan Tighe and Homeboy Sandman in town. Best week of gigs in a while then.
Mon 03 Mar
John Grant – The Olympia Theatre
Fitz and The Tantrums – The Academy
Grace Wilde – Whelans
Jim Lauderdale – Whelans
Tue 04 Mar
Rufus Wainwright – Vicar Street
PictureHouse – The Sugar Club
The Head and the Heart – Whelans
Wed 05 Mar
Damien Jurado – Whelans
Kaleidoscope Night – Bells and Whistles – Odessa Club
Chvrches – The Olympia Theatre
Sarah Savoy – Whelans
Shlohmo – The Twisted Pepper
Bakermat – The Button Factory
Thu 06 Mar
Homeboy Sandman – The Sugar Club
Dylan Tighe & Sean Millar – Bewleys Cafe Theatre
New Music Dublin 2014 – National Concert Hall
Nina Persson – The Button Factory
Mojo Gogo – The Academy 2
Leaders Of Men – Whelans
Eliphino – The Twisted Pepper
Mike Skinner – Whelans
Dirty Epics – Whelans
Fri 07 Mar
Julie Feeney – RDS
Somadrone – The Joinery
New Music Dublin 2014 – National Concert Hall
Birtwistle In Dublin – National Concert Hall
Loefah – The Twisted Pepper
Finnebassen – The Button Factory
Sat 08 Mar
Beyonce – The O2, Dublin
New Music Dublin 2014 – National Concert Hall
Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra – The Grand Social
John Heckle – The Twisted Pepper
R5 – Vicar Street
DJ Koze – The Button Factory
Sun 09 Mar
Beyonce – The O2
New Music Dublin 2014 – National Concert Hall
Stu Larsen – The Workman’s Club
Tommy Fleming – Bord Gais Energy Theatre
Talks/ Lectures
National Gallery of Ireland – Mar 4 2014 – 10:30 – ‘Images of conflict’, with Sean Kissane
National Gallery of Ireland – Mar 5 2014 – 13:30 – Coiscéim Dance Theatre – Dance Talking: Portraits of a Dancer, by David Bolger.
National Gallery of Ireland – Mar 6 2014 – 18:30 – Approaches to the work of the artist James Coleman
Gutter Bookshop – Book Launch for ‘A Model Partner’ by Daniel Seery – Tuesday 4th March – 6.30pm
National Library of Ireland – Adventurous Irish Women (5/3/2014) – Celebrate International Woman’s day with this talk on adventurous Irish women.
Art –
If you fancy a road trip, there’s no better place than Visual in Carlow, for the rest of the Pat Scott retrospective! So much to see.
IMMA – Pat Scott – Image and Space – until 18th May.
RHA Gallery – Ciaran Lennon until 27th April
Richard Mosse – The Enclave – until March 12th – Last week and a must see!
Douglas Hyde – until 19 March 2014
Gallery 1 – Andrea Büttner
Gallery 2 – Coptic Textiles
Hugh Lane Gallery – Sleepwalkers with Gavin Murphy until 25th of May.
General Exhibition at the National Gallery
Costumes Parisiens, fashion plates from 1912-1914at the Chester Beatty until March 30th
Gallery of Photography – John Myers – until 30th March
Private Galleries:
Kerlin –
Oliver Sears – Ed Milano The Nature of Time – until 27 March2014
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery – Ulrich Vogl – until 22nd March 2014
Cross Gallery – Cara Thorpe – Lost and Found – 6th March until 12th April
No More Workhorse 