The First Fortnight Festival is nearing it’s end, but there’s more than few things to take its place!
Room is the main event in the land of movies, with Lenny Abrahamson doing a few Q&A’s around Dublin. Henry Rollins is also in Dublin. Check out the full line up below…
Theatre
Abbey Theatre – You Never Can Tell – 2 December – 6 February
Gaiety Theatre – Little Red Riding Hood Pantomime – 29 November 2015 – 24 January 2016
King Lear – Gaiety School of Acting – January 11th-22nd (NEW)
Romeo & Juliet – Gaiety School of Acting – January 11th-22nd in The Main Space (NEW)
Alison Spittle Discovers Hawaii – First Fortnight Festival – January 14th-16th (NEW)
Project Arts Centre –
Dublin Oldschool – 12 Jan 2016-16 Jan 2016 (NEW)
Civic Theatre – Sleeps
New Theatre – Lockdown – Jan 11th – Jan 16th (NEW)
Bewleys Cafe Theatre – Sure Thing – Jan 04 – 23
Theatre Upstairs – Sleeps
Viking Theatre – The Aran Islands – Jan 6-23
The Gate – The Importance of Being Earnest – until 30th Jan
Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Jersey Boys – 13 Jan 2016 – 23 Jan 2016
Movies
IFI – Room – January 15th – Special screening + Q&A with director Lenny Abrahamson at 18.10.
Sat Jan16 – Popcorn Presents – Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
Sun Jan17 – Popcorn Presents – Withnail & I
New Releases this week!
Creed
Room
The Revenant
Trumbo
Gigs
Not as bleak as last week, but still not vintage! We do have a member of Jurassic in town and the Ones to Watch 2016 in Whelans among others…. There’s also Henry Rollins in Vicar Street, if you want to pretend it’s 1996!
Tues 12 Jan
The Three Tenors – Helix
Wed 13 Jan
Sturgill Simpson – The Button Factory
Liam Ó Maonlaí, Kevin Burke and Tim Edey – Sugar Club
Thu 14 Jan
Irish Showbands – Olympia Theatre
Motionless In White – The Academy
Ones To Watch 2016 – Whelan’s
Chali 2NA (Jurassic 5) & The Funk Hunters – The Sugar Club
Fri 15 Jan
Therion – The Academy
RTE National Symphony Orchestra – Brodin, Walton, Tchaikovsky – NCH
Irish Showbands – Olympia Theatre
Angel Haze – The Academy
Dolores & Sean Keane – Vicar Street
Ones To Watch 2016 – Whelan’s
Lindi Ortega – The Grand Social
Sat 16 Jan
The Maccabees – The Olympia Theatre
The Natural History Museum ‘Attenborogh’ LP Launch – The Sugar Club
The Big Gig – Featuring State Lights, The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra – The Button Factory
Ones To Watch 2016 – Whelan’s
Mary Black – Vicar Street
Sun 17 Jan
Placido Domingo – 3Arena
Patty Griffin – The Olympia Theatre
Henry Rollins – Vicar Street
Ones To Watch 2016 – Whelan’s
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
Mick O’Dea PRHA: The Foggy Dew – January 15, 2015 – February 21, 2016
David Farrell: Before, During, After … Almost – January 15, 2015 – February 21, 2016
December 11, 2015 – February 24, 2016 -Gallery 2 – MERLIN JAMES – Meeting at the Building
Gallery 1 – SERGE CHARCHOUNE
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 – Aileen Murphy and Kathy Tynan – Opens Thursday 7th January at 6pm
Taylor Gallery – Winter Group Show – 18 December 2015 – 30 January 2016
No More Workhorse 