The Dublin Dance Festival is off to a great start and runs until the 28th of May. The International Literature Festival Dublin 2017 runs until 28th May 2017.
Our musical tips include Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, Andy Sheppard (NCH), The Afghan Whigs (The Academy), Jenn Grant (Whelan’s Upstairs) and The Unthanks (Vicar Street) among others. The Life Festival also takes place this weekend.
Not much in the way of new theatre, but there is Young Skins – The Clancy Kid & Bait at the New Theatre and This Lime Tree Bower at the Viking.
The RHA Annual Exhibition opens this week, which is always interesting. The IMMA Collection Freud Project is a must see!
Theatre
Abbey – Dublin Dance Festival – Sunny – 22nd & 23rd
Deep Dish – 26th and 27th
Displacement – 26th and 27th
Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Jeff Dunham – Perfectly Unbalanced Tour 2017 – 26 May 2017 – 27 May 2017
An Audience with John Cleese – 28 May 2017
Gaiety Theatre – The Chastitute – until 27 May 2017
Smock Alley – International Literature Festival Dublin 2017 until 29 May
Project Arts Centre – Dublin Dance Festival 2017
Singspiele – 24 May 2017-25 May
Striptease – 27 May 2017-28 May
The Ferryman – 28 May 2017
Theatre Upstairs – sleeps
New Theatre – Young Skins – The Clancy Kid & Bait – May 22nd – Jun 3rd
Bewleys Cafe Theatre – The Confirmation Suit – until June 03, 2017
Viking Theatre – This Lime Tree Bower – May 29 – June 17
Civic Theatre – Private Peaceful – 22, 25, 26, 27 May
The Gate – Private Lives – until 24th June
Movies
Lighthouse Cinema –
NT Live: Obsession (Encore) – May 23rd
NT Live: Hedda Gabler (Encore) – May 23rd
RSC Live: Antony and Cleopatra – May 24th
IFI – THE BIGGER PICTURE: THE GO-BETWEEN – May 22nd
IRISH FOCUS: AMANDA COOGAN: LONG NOW -May 23rd
AS ABOVE SO BELOW: THE HOLY MOUNTAIN – May 24th
IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS: SCREENING X – May 27th
IFI & INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL DUBLIN: A GRAIN OF TRUTH + ZYGMUNT MIŁOSZEWSKI Q&A – May 28th
New Release Movies –
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
I Am Not Madame Bovary
Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge
The Red Turtle
Gigs
Mon 22 May
Andy Irvine & Paul Brady – Vicar Street
Homeshake – The Sugar Club
Tue 23 May
Isabelle Ashe Theatre Arts Presentation – NCH
Enter Shikari – The Academy
Wed 24 May
Jenn Grant – Whelan’s Upstairs
Aspects of Andrew Lloyd Webber – NCH
Thu 25 May
Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, Andy Sheppard – NCH
The Unthanks – Vicar Street
Morrissey & Marshall – The Sugar Club
Ailbhe Reddy – Bello Bar
Darling – Whelan’s
Fri 26 May
Life Festival 2017
The Skids – The Academy
The Henry Girls – The Unitarian Church
Sat 27 May
Life Festival 2017
Canaimis le Cheile – NCH
Brent Cobb – Bello Bar
They – The Academy 2
Emma Blackery – The Button Factory
Damo Suzuki – The Grand Social
Aoife O’Donovan – Whelan’s (Upstairs)
Guns N’ Roses – Slane Castle
Sun 28 May
Life Festival 2017
Canaimis le Cheile – NCH
The Afghan Whigs – The Academy
Train Room – Whelan’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou5PE1AZy7g
Visual Art
ROSC 50 – 1967 / 2017 – 05 May 2017 to 18 Jun 2017
Jac Leirner – Institutional Ghost – 14 February – 05 June 2017
As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics – 13 Apr 2017 to 27 Aug 2017
IMMA Collection Freud Project 2016 – 2021 – 21 October 2016 – mid October 2017
RHA Gallery – 187th Annual Exhibition – May 23, 2017 – August 12, 2017
Douglas Hyde – April 21 – May 27, 2017
NIAMH O’MALLEY Gallery 2
DENNIS DINNEEN Gallery 1
Hugh Lane Gallery –
Frank O’Meara and Irish Artists Abroad – 13 February 2017 – 11 June 2017 Artistic Migration: Frank O’Meara and Irish Artists Abroad
Eugeen Van Mieghem: Port Life – 09 February 2017 – 11 June 2017
Chester Beatty – General Exhibition
Private Galleries:
Kerlin – Paul Winstanley – Faith After Saenredam and Other Paintings – 20th May – 1st July 2017
Oliver Sears – Barrie Cooke – Works from the Studio – 11 May 2017 — 22 Jun 2017
Taylor Gallery – Bernadette Kiely – Memory needs a landscape – 5 – 27 May 2017
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery – Rectangle – a written thing – Sonia Shiel – May 4th – May 27th
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