Daily Archives: January 12, 2012

Events: The Quiet Pint present “2012 The Year of the Dragon”

  By Amanda | January 12, 2012 - 12:00 pm | Comedy
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Are you a dragon? Do you like dressing up as a dragon? As bizarre as that sounds, it might just get you in for free at the next Quiet Pint comedy gig in 4 Dame Lane on January 25th! With Quiet Pint regulars, Hugh O’Connor, Declan Bruton and Matthew Smyth, the Quiet Pint are delighted to welcome The Jack Gleeson for his debut gig. There will also be a headliner, but just like any other Quiet Pint gig the lads are playing their cards close to their chests, though previous guests have included Jarlath Regan; Dead Cat Bounce; Colm O’ Regan; Andrew Stanley; WitTank; Chris Kent; Foil, Arms and Hog; and A Betrayal of Penguins so ye know the calibre of guests we are talking about here. Come one, come all and make sure to bring your friends. Unless they’re made of ice or wood. That may not be prudent … There’s more →

2 New Shows for The Gaeity Theatre: Plaza Suite & Improbable Frequency

  By Peter | January 12, 2012 - 10:30 am | The Culch, Theatre
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Following its hugely successful, Irish Times Theatre Award nominated production of The Importance of Being Earnest starring Stockard Channing in June 2010, award-winning theatre company Rough Magic are delighted to return to Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre with not one but two shows in early 2012. Rough Magic proudly presents Neil Simon’s hit comedy PLAZA SUITE For 14 performances only February 20 – March 3, 2012 at the Gaiety Theatre “If only walls could talk…well in Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite they do just that’ Having entertained sell-out audiences in the Pavilion Theatre in Dún Laoghaire last July and following a nationwide tour next January and February, Rough Magic bring their highly acclaimed production of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite to the Gaiety Theatre for two weeks only from February 20th to March 3rd 2012. Praised by the New York Times as ‘an impossibly zany new musical’, Improbable Frequency is a tale of spies, physics, … There’s more →