EVENT: GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL
Where to begin? Ireland's premiere arts bash returns with a programme truly impossible, featuring music, theatre, dance, comedy, visual art, street spectacle and talks - highlights include Druid Theatre's 50th anniversary double bill of Macbeth and Riders To The Sea (Various venues, Galway, 14-27 July)
FILM: SUPERMAN
Writer and director James Gunn made one of the great Marvel movies with Guardians Of The Galaxy; now he's heading the rebooted DC Comics universe, which kicks off a new era with his fresh take on the Man Of Steel, as played by David Corenswet (Cinemas nationwide)
STREAMING: TOO MUCH
When a heartbroken New Yorker moves to London hoping for a love story, she falls for an indie musician who's anything but the typical romantic hero... Hacks star Meg Stalter and White Lotus Season 2 breakout Will Sharpe star in the new rom-com from Girls creator Lena Dunham (Netflix, now streaming)
THEATRE: RIOT!
Part variety show, part political awakening, and full-throttle spectacle, THISISPOPBABY bring back their acclaimed production for 4 performances only, with returning stars Panti Bliss, Emmet Kirwan, Up & Over It and Lords of Strut giving it socks, and then some (Vicar Street, Dublin, July 17–20)
MUSIC: A DAWNING
Icelandic composer and producer Ólafur Arnalds and the late Irish musician Eoin French (AKA Talos) offer a profound meditation on friendship, loss and experimentation — one that began as a collaboration and became a totem of their creative kinship, following Talos’ tragic passing last summer (Now streaming)
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