A Midsummer Night’s Dream officially opens in the Abbey this week, directed by Gavin Quinn of Pan Pan. There’s also  the Collaborations festival at Smock Alley and Orphans in the New Theatre.

Another fairly impressive week of gigs in Dublin with Hamell On Trial, Jape, POND, Two Gallants, Ólafur Arnalds,  Ben Folds and Father John Misty, to name but a few! I could happily be at four gigs in Thursday night, which is always a bit annoying. Choices, choices, choices…

Theatre

Collins Barracks – Pals by Anu – Until April 30th. Tickets €5. Full details here.

The Abbey – A Mid Summers Night’s Dream – runs until Saturday, 28 March 2015

The Gate – The Caretaker – until 21st March

Project Arts Centre –   Everything Between Us – 11 Feb 2015-28 Feb 2015
Sea Wall – 23 Feb 2015-28 Feb 2015

Smock Alley – Collaborations 2015 – February 18th – March 7th

Theatre Upstairs – The Swing – until Feb 21st

Viking Theatre – Hooked – Feb 2nd – 21st

New Theatre – Orphans – Feb 16th – Feb 28th

Gaiety Theatre –   Breaking Dad – Monday February 16 – Saturday February 28, 

Civic Theatre – Cornerstones – Feb 9th to 21st
Underneath – Fri 20th – Sat 21st February 2015 // 8:00pm

Bewleys Cafe Theatre – The Hole – Feb 16 – Mar 07, 2015 | 1pm (doors at 12.50pm)

Bord Gais Energy Centre – Stomp – 17 Feb 2015 – 21 Feb 2015

Movies

Sugar Club –  Sat Feb21 – Encore!!! presents Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense

Lighthouse – Oscar Nominated Shorts 2015: Animation

18:30 Tuesday 17th February

Oscar Nominated Shorts 2015: Live Action

20:15 Tuesday 17th February

IFI – IFI & PLASTIK FESTIVAL

IFI & PLASTIK FESTIVAL: THE SHORT FORM
Friday 20th February 2015
18.30
IFI & PLASTIK FESTIVAL: PLASTIK CRITICAL FORUM AWARD
Saturday 21st February 2015
12.00
IFI & PLASTIK FESTIVAL: PLASTIC PASSION
Saturday 21st February 2015
16.15
IFI & PLASTIK FESTIVAL: WALK ON THE WILD SIDE – A FILM OF FILMS
Saturday 21st February 2015
18.30
IFI & PLASTIK FESTIVAL: THE EXTRAVAGANT SHADOWS (1998 – 2012)
Sunday 22nd February 2015
13.00
IFI & PLASTIK FESTIVAL: THE AFRICAN TWIN TOWERS
Sunday 22nd February 2015
18.00

This Coming Friday

Blackhat
Cake
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
Project Almanac
The Duke of Burgundy
The Wedding Ringer

Gigs

Another fairly impressive week of gigs in Dublin with Hamell On Trial, Jape, POND, Two Gallants, Ólafur Arnalds,  Ben Folds and Father John Misty, to name but a few! I could happily be at four gigs in Thursday night, which is always a bit annoying. Choices, choices, choices…

Mon 16 Feb
Spring Festival Gala Performance – NCH
The X Factor Live Tour 2015 – 3Arena
Australian Pink Floyd – The Olympia Theatre

Tue 17 Feb
Rising Star 2015: Alex Petcu-Colan, percussion- NCH
Christy Moore – Vicar Street
Hamell On Trial – The Workman’s Club
Australian Pink Floyd – The Olympia Theatre
Pete Kennedy – The Sugar Club

Wed 18 Feb
Echo and the Bunnymen – The Olympia Theatre
Christy Moore – Vicar Street
Slow Club – Pepper Canister Church
Rumer – The Academy
Slow Skies, Richie Egan & Paul Curran – Odessa
Melanie McCabe – The Sugar Club

Thu 19 Feb
Jape – The Academy
POND – Whelan’s
Two Gallants – The Workman’s Club
Ólafur Arnalds – Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire
Eddi Reader – Vicar Street
Father Ray Kelly – The Olympia Theatre
Rescheduled | Jack Savoretti – The Sugar Club
Anna Mitchell – The Workman’s Club

Fri 20 Feb
Death From Above 1979 – The Academy
Ólafur Arnalds – Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire
John Bramwell (I Am Kloot) – The Button Factory
Carriages – The Sugar Club
RTE NSO Beethoven, R Strauss
Jester – The Academy 2
Meltybrains? – Pepper Canister Church
Elastic Sleep – Whelan’s
Trio Trio Piano – Bello Bar
Bad Boy Jake and the Pink Sox Project – Patriots Inn
Julio Bashmore – The Academy
Libero – Whelan’s

Sat 21 Feb
Ben Folds – Whelan’s
Franko Franko – The Grand Social
The Coronas – 3Arena (The O2)
Mike Denver – The Olympia Theatre
King Charles – The Academy
Abigail Smith – BelloBar
Turning Down Sex, Fierce Mild & That Snaake – The Thomas House
Little Green Onions – Whelan’s
The Horrors & Dan Shake – The Twisted Pepper
Black Coffee – Opium Rooms
Fallen Rule – Whelan’s

Sun 22 Feb
Father John Misty – Whelan’s
Ultimate Eagles – The Olympia Theatre

Talks and Lectures –

National Gallery of Ireland – Feb 22 2015 – 15:00 – ‘War and Revolution in Russia’, with Professor Christina Lodder, University of Kent

Science Gallery  – FYI FBI: Hasan Elahi on art, privacy, and national security – Thursday, February 19, 2015 – 18:00 to 19:15

Superintelligence: Hacking Human Genius- Friday, February 20, 2015 – 15:00 to 15:45

Irish Writers Centre – Book Launch: A LIFE – a play by Victor Feldman, with poetry by Mary Guckian
Monday 16 February – 6.30pm–8.30pm

Sugar Club – The Moth StorySLAM, where ten people get the floor for five minutes – Mon Feb16

IMMA – Conversations Revisited | Nigel Rolfe + Alastair MacLennan | Johnson Suite – Fri 13 Feb 2015, 1-2pm | Free

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

Chester Beatty – Permanent Exhibition

Private Galleries:

Image above –Paul Seawright

Kerlin – Paul Seawright – The List – 30 January–21 March 2015

Oliver Sears – Sarah Walker – The Boxing Diaries – 15 Jan 2015 — 19 Feb 2015

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery  – I See a Darkness –  until 14th March

Taylor Gallery – Tim Goulding – Patching the Void  – 20 February – 7 March 2015