So, it’s June already? This year is on fast forward! As it’s the long weekend, it officially means it’s festival season, with Forbidden Fruit, Down with Jazz and Vantastival all this weekend. You have no excuse not to get out there and boogie!

There’s also a good bit going on in Theatre, with Town is Dead, The Birthday Party and 69 Shades of Gay among others. Gangsters have taken over the Lighthouse cinema! Ok, not really, but they’re showing the Godfather trilogy all week.

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
Town is Dead – 2 June – 9 July (NEW)

Gaiety Theatre – The Birthday Party – 30 May 2016 – 4 June 2016 (NEW)

Smock Alley – 
69 Shades of Gay – 30 May – 11 Jun (NEW)
Malacoda’s Bridge – 1 – 2 Jun (NEW)

Project Arts Centre  –  Starman – 02 Jun 2016-04 Jun 2016 (NEW)

Civic Theatre –  Oliver – 31 May – 4 June (NEW)

New Theatre – Next Production: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Jun 6th – Jun 15th

Theatre Upstairs – Revolver  – May 20th 2016 – June 4th 2016

Bewleys Cafe Theatre – From Eden – May 16 – Jun 11, 2016 | 1pm

Viking Theatre – Risk Everything – May 23 – June 11

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

Bord Gais Energy Theatre – The Circus of Horrors – 31 May 2016

Movies

Sugar Club
Mon May30 – Popcorn Presents – Janis : Little Girl Blue

IFI – GERMANY YEAR ZERO
JUNE 1ST (19.00) + introduction by Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty

Lighthouse Cinema –  De Niro Vs Pacino Season – Round 1

Godfather Part I
20:30, Tuesday 31 May 2016
12:00, Saturday 04 June 2016

Godfather Part II
20:30, Wednesday 01 June 2016
15:30, Saturday 04 June 2016

Godfather Part III
20:30, Thursday 02 June 2016
20:00, Saturday 04 June 2016

Lighthouse – Studio Ghibli Forever
ONLY YESTERDAY – 3pm, Sunday June 5 2016 (Subtitled)

New Release Movies –
Me Before You
Race
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
The Measure of a Man
The Nice Guys
Warcraft: The Beginning

Gigs

Quiet day, quiet day, quiet day, quiet day, FORBIDDEN FRUIT! Yes, it’s a pretty dull one, but with a big event at the weekend, with Tame Impala, Young Fathers, Steve Mason, Battles and a few more of our favourites. See the full list here.

There’s also a couple more festivals with Vantastival (Badly Drawn Boy, Hot Sprockets etc) and Down with Jazz (which is always lots of fun).

A special mention for the Tree of Life concert at the NCH on Friday, which should be worth going to.

Mon 30 May
Benjamin Clementine – The Olympia Theatre

Tue 31 May
Schubert: Four Impromptus, Michael McHale, piano – NCH
Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra – NCH
Busted – 3Arena

Wed 01 Jun
Stars and Stripes – Saluting American Music – NCH
Gordon Lightfoot – Bord Gais Energy Theatre

Thu 02 Jun
Northern Lights Gala Concert – NCH
Ben Portsmouth – The Olympia Theatre
Doug Paisley – Whelan’s (Upstairs)
Honey Beard – Whelan’s

Fri 03 Jun
The Tree of Life – NCH
Vantastival 2016
Forbidden Fruit Festival 2016
Ben Portsmouth – The Olympia Theatre
Forbidden Fruit Night 2016
The Eskies – The Button Factory
Finbar Furey – Vicar Street
I Have A Tribe – Whelan’s
The Doors Alive – The Academy

Sat 04 Jun
Forbidden Fruit Festival 2016
Down With Jazz 2016
Vantastival 2016
Ben Portsmouth – The Olympia Theatre
PØRTS (Album Launch) – Whelan’s
Cookie And The Vaudevilles – The Sugar Club
Scoops – Whelan’s
Forbidden Fruit Night 2016

Sun 05 Jun
Vanbrugh Quartet – NCH
Forbidden Fruit Festival 2016

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 – Last RHA Atrium

Douglas Hyde –
May 20 – July 27, 2016

Gallery 1 – CAOIMHE KILFEATHER – season and evening and weather and history
Gallery 2 – TURKMEN AND UZBEK CHILDREN’S CLOTHES

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 – Alice Maher – The Glorious Maids of the Charnel House – June 2nd – July 2nd

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