Not long now – Tradfest 2015 runs from 28th January to 1st February in Temple Bar. Although most of the music is Trad, you don’t have to be a Trad fan to enjoy this. The venues and atmosphere are a major plus, and this really is the right time of year for a Trad festival….
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Prom night all over again
The folks at Hunt & Gather are putting on an 80s Prom Night, which sounds like fun. 17th October in The Pint on Eden Quay. Details below. H&G 1st Birthday: PROM NIGHT class of ’87 Its hard to believe it was only a year ago little auld Hunt & Gather threw one of the…
Review: The Mariner
The Mariner is a play by Hugo Hamilton currently running in the Gate Theatre as part of the 2014 Dublin Theatre Festival. The Mariner is about a Royal Navy sailor who returns home in 1916 after being injured at the Battle of Jutland. This might be one of those plays you’ll either love or hate….
Dublin Theatre Festival 2014
Tomorrow – 25th September 2014 – is the first day of this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival. The DTF is the highlight of Dublin’s “festival season”, so I’d like to provide a few suggestions about what you might go see. The Seagull And Other Birds – Pan Pan Theatre – I saw a rehearsal for this…
Culture Night is Friday!
Friday 19th September has happened yet and I already know it will be one of the best nights in Dublin city this year. Why? Because it’s Culture Night. We are big fans of the night and over the years, it has seen us try to do as many things as possible (11 is my record!)…
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in Dublin Castle
Mouth on Fire have a new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream running from 23rd July to 3rd August 2014 in Dublin Castle. The venue is the garden of the Castle, with full seating and a backup indoor venue in case of bad weather. Oh, and this production is 1970’s style glam-rock themed. Tickets are…
Campo Viejo Tapas Trail
The Campo Viejo Tapas Trail concept is simple and fun: go from restaurant to restaurant, eating tapas and drinking wine. We started in the newish Drury Buildings. The highlight here was a lamb meatball, which we were later given the recipe for. Dave liked Drury Buildings enough to return within a few days of the…
The Magdalen Whitewash
I attended the opening night of La Touche Players’ performance of The Magdalen Whitewash by Valerie Goodwin last night in the Teachers’ Club. As you would expect, this is a mostly female cast, with strong performances from all involved. The play spans the 1930s and 1940s and follows (in snippets) the lives of a number…
Light Up for Simon this Christmas
The Simon Community has come up with a novel fundraiser this Christmas. Tomorrow evening at 6pm, they’re asking people to come down to the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre wearing (no doubt appalling) Christmas jumpers. Pauline McLynn, Roisin Ingle & Louis Copeland will be lighting their own jumpers as part of a larger light spectacle, which will…
Halloween at Filmbase
In a special event for Halloween, Filmbase in Temple Bar will host two terrifying nights of blood-curdling shorts and a frightening feature. Tonight’s shorts will be followed by an audience Q&A with all of the directors and both nights will feature fancy dress. 19:00 Wednesday 30th October Wednesday’s line-up features an array of spine-shuddering short…