Wait, I feel a disturbance in the force, is there some, strange film out this week? Yes, this is the week some people have been looking forward to for about a year. If you don’t have your tickets already, you’ll probably get to see The Force Awakens in about two months time! Otherwise, there’s lots to see and do around the city. Have a look below…
There’s The Vaccines, Ash, Brad Mehldau, Colm Mac Con Iomaire and Damien Dempsey at the various venues around the city. There’s also a few new things at the theatre, with Cirque des Rêves and High Heels in Low Places, among others.
Theatre
Abbey Theatre – You Never Can Tell – 2 December – 6 February
Gaiety Theatre – Little Red Riding Hood Pantomime – 29 November 2015 – 10 January 2016
Smock Alley – A Christmas Carol – December 7th-22nd
Cirque des Rêves – December 15th – 19th (NEW)
Project Arts Centre – High Heels in Low Places – 21 Dec 2015 | € 30
Catch Me – 16 Dec 2015-19 Dec 2015 | € 18/16
Civic Theatre – Aladdin – 20 December – 3 January (NEW)
New Theatre – Snake Eaters – Nov 30th – Dec 19th
Bewleys Cafe Theatre – It’s a wonderful bleedin’ life – Nov 30 – Dec 19th
Theatre Upstairs – Way Beyond the Blue – December 8th 2015 – December 19th 2015
Viking Theatre – A Christmas Carol – Dec 15 – 23
The Gate – The Importance of Being Earnest – until 30th Jan
Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Mary Poppins – 3 Dec 2015 – 9 Jan 2016
Movies
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (OPENS DECEMBER 11TH)
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY… (OPENS DECEMBER 11TH)
BLACK CHRISTMAS – Thursday 17th December 2015 – 20.30
THE RED SHOES (OPENS DECEMBER 18TH)
IFI FAMILY: SCROOGE
Saturday 19th December 2015
16.00
Sunday 20th December 2015
11.00
MIRACLE ON 34th STREET
Sunday 20th December 2015
16.00
Fri Dec18 – The Pictures: Home Alone [1990]
DIE HARD – Sat 19th Dec
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE – SAT 19th Dec
GREMLINS – Tue 15th Dec
HOME ALONE – Sat 19th Dec
ELF – SAT 19 DEC, 2.45PM | SUN 20 DEC, 6PM
New Releases this week!
Snoopy and Charlie Brown: A Peanuts Movie
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
The Forbidden Room
Gigs
Glen Hansard could be the first Irish person to EGOT. Seriously, it could happen. As everyone knows, the EGOT is the highest achievement known to man, and Glen is already OT’d and has just been nominated for a Grammy. Only an Emmy left? Potentially anyway. We wish him well.
There’s The Vaccines, Ash, Brad Mehldau, Colm Mac Con Iomaire and Damien Dempsey. Not a bad list, all in all…
Mon 14 Dec
The Vaccines – The Olympia Theatre
The Wailers – The Academy
RTE Concert Orchestra: A Night in Vienna – NCH
Bishop, Farah Elle, 13 and Strange Attractor – The Workman’s Club
Gavin James – Whelan’s
Bay City Rollers – Vicar Street
Tue 15 Dec
Ash – The Olympia Theatre
Christmas with Phil Coulter – NCH
The Cabeytu Brothers – The Workman’s Club
Elastic Sleep & Segrasso – Bello Bar
Keywest – The Workman’s Club
Bay City Rollers – Vicar Street
Wed 16 Dec
Perspectives 2015: Brad Mehldau: Solo Piano – NCH
The Riptide Movement – Whelan’s
Rae Sremmurd – Vicar Street
Thu 17 Dec
RTE NSO Cara O’Sullivan Christmas Gala – NCH
Colm Mac Con Iomaire – Vicar Street
Listen at Bello Bar
Twinkranes, Patrick Kelleher & More – The Grand Social
Ryan Sheridan – The Academy
Morrissey & Marshall – The Workman’s Club
Oki’s Wagon – Whelan’s (Upstairs)
Fri 18 Dec
Howie Day – The Academy 2
Enter Shikari – The Academy
Oliver Cole & BIMM Choir – The Unitarian Church
Buzz Cagney Christmas Party – Whelan’s Upstairs
Sal Vitro – Bello Bar
Bitch Thieves – The Workman’s Club
Fri 18 Dec
Damien Dempsey – Vicar Street
The National Concert Hall Christmas Concert – NCH
Detroit Swindle and Brame & Hamo – District 8
Booka Shade – The Button Factory
Sat 19 Dec
Popical Island All-Dayer 5 – Whelan’s Upstairs
The National Concert Hall Christmas Concert – NCH
Kila – The Button Factory
Damien Dempsey – Vicar Street
Raglans – Hangar
Spies – The Workman’s Club
Mount Kimbie (Dj Set) & Kindness (Dj Set) – District 8
Sun 20 Dec
Glen Hansard – Vicar Street
Christmas Craic’er – The Button Factory
The National Concert Hall Christmas Concert – NCH
Until April – The Workman’s Club
Lisa Lambe & Simon Morgan Sing Christmas
Poguetry In Motion – The Grand Social
Talks and Lectures
National Gallery of Ireland – Dec 15 2015 – 10:30
Tuesday Talk: ‘Ireland and migration in the 21st century’
Science Gallery –
Monday, December 14, 2015 – 18:00 – Why Torture Doesn’t Work – The Neuroscience of Interrogation
National Library of Ireland – Going with your emotions: towards a new strategy for the National Library of Scotland (18/12/2015)
Sugar Club – Mon Dec14 – The Moth StorySlam – Joy
Art
IMMA –
What We Call Love: From Surrealism to Now – 12 September 2015 – 7 February 2016
Featuring modern and contemporary masterworks from the world’s leading collections by ABRAMOVIĆ, BRANCUSI, DALÍ, DUCHAMP, ERNST, GIACOMETTI, OPPENHEIM, PICASSO, WARHOL, YOKO ONO, and many more.
Chloe Dewe Mathews: Shot at Dawn – 09 Oct 2015 – 07 Feb 2016
Grace Weir, 3 Different Nights, recurring – 7 November 2015 – 6 March 2016
E.gress: Marie Brett & Kevin O’Shanahan – 03 Nov – 13 Dec 2015
RHA Gallery – Next Exhibitions –
November 18, 2015 – December 20, 2015 FUTURES Anthology RHA Gallery I
November 18, 2015 – December 20, 2015 Ailbhe Ní Bhriain Reports to an Academy RHA Gallery II
November 18, 2015 – December 20, 2015 Sean Molloy Neo Pentimenti RHA Ashford Gallery
Hugh Lane (1875-1915): Dublin’s Legacy and Loss – until 04 October 2015 Hugh Lane (1875-2015): Dublin’s Legacy and Loss celebrates Hugh Percy Lane. – until 10th Jan
Chester Beatty – Exhibition
Private Galleries:
Kerlin – Liliane Tomasko – Sense – 28 November 2015 – 16 January 2016
Oliver Sears –Sasha Sykes & Sara Flynn – Caliology & Lineage – 26 Nov 2015 — 21 Jan 2016
Kevin Kavanagh – Paul McKinley – Hanuman – Nov 19th – Dec 19th, 2015
Taylor Gallery –Pat Harris – Thin Places – 20 November – 12 December 2015
No More Workhorse 