Dance, Dance, Dance… yes, it’s that time of year again when the dancers descend on Dublin, en masse. The Dublin Dance Festival runs from the 17th to the 28th.
If you’re feeling a bit more bookish, then there’s a second Festival around with the International Literature Festival Dublin 2016 which runs from the 21st until the 29th.
Fear not though, as there’s a full swing of new theatre, with Another Billy Conn at the New Theatre (May 16th – May 21st), Harold Pinter: Theatre Of Menace (May 21 & 22) and From Eden in Bewleys Cafe Theatre among others.
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
Gaiety Theatre – Driving Miss Daisy – 4 May 2016 – 28 May 2016
Smock Alley – Harold Pinter: Theatre Of Menace – May 21 & 22 (NEW)
International Literature Festival Dublin 2016 – Multiple Events – 21 – 29 May
Dublin Dance Festival – Continues:
Liminal/ Folds of the Crane – 20 May 2016-21 May 2016 | € 13 – €15
Swan Lake – 22 May 2016 | € 8 – €10 (NEW)
And Others…
Axis Ballymun
Chapatti – 19th May 2016 to 21st May 2016
Civic Theatre
Al Porter: Work in Progress – 16 – 22 May @ 8.15pm and matinee on 21 May @ // 3pm
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – 20 – 22 May 2016 // See Various Times (NEW)
New Theatre – Another Billy Conn – May 16th – May 21st @ 7.30pm (NEW)
Bewleys Cafe Theatre – From Eden – May 16 – Jun 11, 2016 | 1pm (NEW)
Viking Theatre – Meet The Quare Fellow – May 3 – 21
The Gate – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?– until June 11th
Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Chicago – 11 May 2016 – 21 May 2016
Angels in the Park – The Lexicon Library, Dun Laoghaire – Saturday 21st May at 12.30pm and 3.30pm
Movies
Sugar Club – Sun May22 – Popcorn Presents – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ( 30th Anniversary )
Lighthouse Cinema – De Niro Vs Pacino Season – Round 1
SCARFACE
20:30, Tuesday 17 May 2016
14:00, Saturday 21 May 2016
THE MISSION (35MM)
20:30, Wednesday 18 May 2016
14:00, Sunday 22 May 2016
Lighthouse – Studio Ghibli Forever
GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES
3pm, Sunday May 22 2016 (Subtitled)
New Releases this week!
A Hologram For The King
Departure
Heart Of A Dog
Journey To The Shore
The Silent Storm
Gigs
Another week without much to offer, but we’d recommend Day Wave in the Workman’s Club, Lisa O’Neill at Whelans, and Quantic at the Sugar Club. The Cormac Begley & Caoimhin O Raghallaigh gig at the NCH would be the best of the week, but it’s sadly sold out!
Mon 16 May
RTE NSO Music of Our Time – Composer Lab – NCH
Day Wave – The Workman’s Club
Back To Broadway – NCH
Catfish and The Bottlemen – The Olympia Theatre
Tue 17 May
Blue Rodeo – The Grand Social
Il Divo – 3Arena
Steve Aoki – The Academy
Wed 18 May
Larry Coryell – The Sugar Club
Alice Phoebe Lou – The Workman’s Club
Banff Mountain Film Festival- NCH
Barry Jay Hughes – Whelan’s (Upstairs)
Thu 19 May
Cormac Begley & Caoimhin O Raghallaigh – NCH
Hail The Ghost – Whelan’s
Blind Guardian – The Academy
‘Mike Peters Presents The Alarm’ – The Academy 2
The Witch Trials & Figures Of Fun – Whelan’s (Upstairs)
Privado – The Grand Social
The Late Hours – The Workman’s Club
Fri 20 May
Lisa O’Neill – Whelan’s
RTE NSO Haydn, Ravel, Shostakovich – NCH
Interskalactic – The Workman’s Club
Juanito Makande – The Grand Social
Rend Collective – The Academy
Goitse – Whelan’s (Upstairs)
Sat 21 May
Quantic – The Sugar Club
Magnificent Magnificats – NCH
The Undertones – The Academy
David C. Clements – Whelan’s
Land Lovers – The Workman’s Club
Eric Bibb – Vicar Street
Penrose – The Grand Social
Sun 22 May
Vanbrugh Quartet – NCH
G-Eazy – The Olympia Theatre
Stephen Kellogg – Whelan’s (Upstairs)
Highasakite – Whelan’s
Fia Rua – The Workman’s Club
Kayah & Kila – Vicar Street
Kicking Bird – The Liquor Rooms
Art
IMMA –
Simon Fujiwara The Humanizer – 20 May 2016 – 28 Aug 2016
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 – Merlin James – To the Present – 13th May – 25th June 2016
Oliver Sears –Michael Canning – The Respectful Distance – 5 May 2016 — 16 Jun 2016
Kevin Kavanagh -Elaine Byrne – Whenceness – May 5th – 28th
Taylor Gallery – John Doherty – Legacy – 29 April – 21 May 2016
No More Workhorse 