Dec 24, 2024
Nov 29,2024
PANTO: PETER PAN
The Gaiety Theatre has hosted their annual Christmas panto each year since Turko The Terrible in 1873. For this year's spectacular, they're offering their own unique, all-singing, all-dancing spin on Peter Pan - and don't forget, this is no ordinary Panto… It’s the Gaiety Panto! Legendary dame Joe Conlan talks to Marty below (Gaiety Theatre, Dublin until 19th Jan 2025)
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FILM: NAUGHTY OR NICE
It's become a Christmas tradition for the Lighthouse in Dublin and Pálás in Galway to screen choice seasonal favourites. This year, their Naughty or Nice list runs the gambit from a 70th Anniversary screening of Michael Curtiz's White Christmas, to the welcome return of instant Christmas classic The Holdovers, joining perennial favourites like Die Hard, It's A Wonderful Life, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Elf (Lighthouse Dublin and Pálás Galway, various dates in December - find out more here and here)
MUSIC: CHRISTMAS AT THE MOVIES
The magic of Christmas comes alive via the beloved songs and scores from classic holiday films, as performed by pianist Ruth McGinley and vocalist Suzanne Savage; film-wise, expect everything from Meet Me in St. Louis and White Christtmas to Love Actually and (our favourite) A Charlie Brown Christmas (Various venues in Belfast, Derry, Lurgan and Omagh, Dec 3rd - 12th - find out more here)
THEATRE: THE DEAD
MoLI (the Museum of Literature Ireland), site-specific specialists Anú and Landmark Productions join forces to bring James Joyce's classic short story to life via a unique immersive theatre experience in the historic rooms and secret spaces of 85 St Stephen's Green. Capacity is limited (only 75 audience members per performance), tickets are going fast and dressing up for the occasion isn't obligatory, but welcome - find out more here (Newman House, Dublin, until 12 January 2025)
STREAMING: NUTCRACKERS
Filmmaker David Gordon Green visited a friend of his and was so charmed by her four sons that he decided to put them in a movie... The result is this old-school seasonal heartwarmer, where a strait-laced man (Ben Stiller, in what can only be described as 'the Ben Stiller role') finds his life suddenly upended when he becomes the caregiver for his rambunctious, orphaned nephews (Disney+, now streaming)
