It can’t be May, sure it was snowing last week. Something must be wrong! Thankfully, there are lots of warm spaces inside to entertain you…

A couple of new plays, with Inhabitance in the Project and Olive Tree at the New Theatre, among others.  Anu’s Sunder is running until next Saturday and comes heavily recommended. The Gay Theatre Festival also runs from May 2nd to May 15th, with a variety of new work and is always worth supporting!

The Patrick Hennessy Exhibition at IMMA is worth checking out. The RHA Annual Exhibition is in full swing.

Theatre

Abbey – Othello – 5 May – 11 June 2016
Tina’s Idea of Fun – 14 April – 14 May

Anu – Sunder – 19th April – 7th May

Gaiety Theatre – Driving Miss Daisy – 4 May 2016 – 28 May 2016 (NEW)

Smock Alley – 
Punk Rock – 25 + 26 Apr (NEW)

Project Arts Centre  –  
Northern Star – 21 Apr 2016-07 May 2016
Inhabitance – 29 Apr 2016-14 May 2016 (NEW)

Civic Theatre
Signatories – 3 – 4 May // 8pm (NEW)

New Theatre –  
The Olive Tree – May 2nd – May 7th (NEW)

Bewleys Cafe Theatre – The Importance of Being Oscar – May 03 – 14, 2016 (NEW)

Viking Theatre – Meet The Quare Fellow – May 3 – 21 (NEW)

The Gate – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?– until June 11th

Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Tell Me On A Sunday – 1st May 2016 – 3 May 2016

The Teacher’s Club – McKenna’s Fort– 2 – 7 May 2016

Movies

Lighthouse Cinema –  De Niro Vs Pacino Season – Round 1
THE DEER HUNTER
20:30, Tuesday 03 May 2016
14:00, Saturday 07 May 2016

SERPICO
20:30, Wednesday 04 May 2016
14:00, Sunday 08 May 2016

Lighthouse – Studio Ghibli Forever
LAPUTA CASTLE IN THE SKY – 3pm, Sunday May 8 2016 (Subtitled)

Sugar Club
Sat May07 – Popcorn Presents – Straight Outta Compton
Sat May07 – Popcorn Presents – Sign of The Times

New Releases this week!

Bad Neighbours 2
Evolution
Florence Foster Jenkins
I Saw The Light
Knight of Cups
Robinson Crusoe

Gigs

We had two great weeks of gigs, but that has come to a fairly obvious end this week, with the dullest week in recent times! Why can’t they be spaced evenly apart, and then everyone would be happy! If I were to pick one, it would be Ryley Walker in Whelans, and after that… some Irish bands with Declan O’Rourke, The Frank and Walters and Sample Answer.

Mon 02 May
Ryley Walker – Whelan’s

Tue 03 May
Spooky Ghost – Whelan’s

Wed 04 May
Hiatus Kaiyote – The Sugar Club
Beoga – Whelan’s
Maxim Vengerov, violin – NCH
Dixie Chicks – 3Arena

Thu 05 May
Signatories – NCH
Hiatus Kaiyote – The Sugar Club

Kula Shaker – The Academy
Cinco de Mayo Fiesta w/ Mariachi San Patricio – The Grand Social

Fri 06 May
Sample Answer – The Grand Social
Christy Moore – Bord Gais Energy Theatre
Jack O’Rourke – The Academy 2
Kate Voegele & Tyler Hilton – The Academy
Phil Cook & The Guitar Heels – Whelan’s

Sat 07 May
Declan O’Rourke – Vicar Street
The Frank and Walters – Whelan’s
Space – The Grand Social
Until April – The Workman’s Club

Sun 08 May
Anastacia – The Olympia Theatre
Shane O’Reilly – Whelan’s (Upstairs)
The Long Ryders – Whelan’s
Carrie Haskins – The Grand Social

Art

IMMA –
Patrick Hennessy: De Profundis – 24 Mar 2016 – 24 Jul 2016
The Passion According to Carol Rama – 24 Mar 2016 – 01 Aug 2016
IMMA Collection: A Decade – 28 Apr 2016 – 08 Jan 2017

RHA Gallery –
March 22, 2016 – June 11, 2016 186th Annual Exhibition RHA Charles Gallagher Gallery
March 22, 2016 – June 11, 2015 27th of April Last RHA Atrium

Douglas Hyde –
BILL LYNCH – Gallery 1
VERNE DAWSON – Gallery 2
March 4 – May 4, 2016

Hugh Lane Gallery –
Julie Merriman: Revisions – until 10 April 2016
Jesse Jones: NO MORE FUN AND GAMES  – 11 February 2016 – 26 June 2016
Alan Phelan: Our Kind  – 10 March – 2 October 2016 – Our Kind is a short film by Alan Phelan which

Chester Beatty – Exhibition

Private Galleries:

Kerlin – Richard Gorman – Iwano – 16 March – 7 May 2016

Oliver Sears –Michael Canning – The Respectful Distance – 5 May 2016 — 16 Jun 2016

Kevin Kavanagh –Michael Boran – Through the Undergrowth – April 7th – 30th, 2016

Taylor Gallery – John Doherty – Legacy –  29 April – 21 May 2016