It’s a new year and it’s out with the old and in with the new. The most important thing you have to do this week is write 2014 at the end of any dates. There’s only really one show in town with First Fortnight festival making most of the running. There’s also Stars, We Cut Corners and the Therapy Sessions.

Theatre

The Abbey – She Stoops to Conquer -until Saturday, 31 January 2015

The Gate – Wuthering Heights – until Jan 24th

Project Arts Centre –  Wunderbar – 08 Jan 2015-09 Jan 2015 | € 12/10

Smock Alley – My Name Is Saoirse – January 8th – 10th

Viking Theatre – Duet for One – Jan 5 – 10

New Theatre – Fireplay – Jan 5th – Jan 10th

Theatre Upstairs – Sleeps

Gaiety Theatre –   Peter Pan Christmas Panto – 1st December 2014 – 11th January 2014

Civic Theatre – Sleeps

Bewleys Cafe Theatre – Weighing In – Jan 05 – 24, 2015 | 1pm

Bord Gais Energy Centre – Elf the Musical – 16th Dec – 10th Jan

Movies

IFI – Heaven Adores you – As part of First Fortnight

IFI – Afternoon Talk – Cinema and the Internet Discussion  – Thursday 08 Jan 14:00

Gigs

I have to say, this is probably one of the worst weeks I can remember for gigs! It will make us cherish the few exciting things there are on about town, such as Stars, We Cut Corners and the Therapy Sessions. What would we do without you?

Wed 07 Jan
Conor Linehan – Piano Recital – NCH
Kaleidoscope Night – Odessa including Trio Elatha

Thu 08 Jan
The Fureys – NCH

Fri 09 Jan
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra: The Music Makers – NCH
Therapy Sessions – Workman’s Club – including I Have A Tribe, The Lost Brothers and Paddy Hanna
TV Smith & the Bored Teenagers – Fibber Magees
The Loafing Heroes – The Sugar Club

Sat 10 Jan
Stars – Opium Rooms
Rebel Rebel – The Grand Social
The Big Gig with We Cut Corners, Booka Brass Band, I Have a Tribe – Button Factory
Orkka – The Workman’s Club

Sun 11 Jan
Booker T Jones – The Sugar Club
Reeling In The Showband Years – NCH

Talks and Lectures –

National Gallery of Ireland – Tuesday Lecture 6 January @ 10.30 – Winner of the Hennessy Portrait Prize, Nick Miller. Free public lecture.

Art –

IMMA – until 31 Dec 2014 – IMMA Collection: Conversations

until 29 Mar 2015 – Duncan Campbell

until 01 Mar 2015 – Primal Architecture

TROVE – Dorothy Cross selects from the National Collections – 03 December 2014 – 08 March 2015 – Garden Galleries – Get along to this if you can, it’s fantastic.

RHA Gallery – January 16, 2015 – April 26, 2015 Nick Miller Vessels: Nature Morte RHA Foyer
January 16, 2015 – February 22, 2015 Mark Garry A New Quiet RHA Gallery I
January 16, 2015 – February 22, 2015 Amelia Stein Erris RHA Gallery II

Douglas Hyde –from 12 December – 25 February 2015
Gallery 1 – Niamh O’Malley

Gallery 2 – Mairead O’hEocha

Hugh Lane Gallery – Efforts and Ideals: Prints of the First World War  – until 22 February 2015

National Gallery – Turner Watercolours – Until Jan 31st

Chester Beatty – Permanent Exhibition

Private Galleries:

Image above – Janet-Mullarney–Earthly-Creatures- Taylor Gallery Winter Group Show

Kerlin – Eoin Mc Hugh – the skies will be friendlier then – until 24th January

Oliver Sears – Stephen Lawlor – 4 Dec 2014 — 8 Jan 2015

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery  – between shows

Taylor Gallery – Winter Group Show  – until 31st Jan 2015