The Actors’ Shakespeare Project is closing out its season with the masterful comedy of manners, “The School for Scandal.” From the pen of Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan (adapted by Steven Barkhimer), the play weaves a witty tapestry examining the pretentiousness and hypocrisy of British high society in the 1770s. 

Filled with intrigue, lust, and the perils of social climbing vs. reputation, “School for Scandal” plays at the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge from April 13 to May 8.

Here’s a look at some of the Irish/Celtic music and dance happenings around the Greater Boston area this month:

The three-night series Rebellion premieres on SundanceTV on April 24. The cast includes, from left: May Lacy, Elizabeth Butler, Jimmy Mahon and Frances O’Flaherty. Image courtesy SundanceTV
A history-from-the-top-down approach focuses on the leaders and prominent players in epochal events and movements, and a history-from-the-ground-up approach presents so-called ordinary people swept up in the bigger picture. In “Rebellion,” a five-part RTE miniseries airing this month on Sundance TV, the 1916 Easter Rising unfolds through the latter approach. The ambitious series, with its six million euro price tag standin as RTE’s most expensive docudrama, was filmed in Dublin in 2015.

The series opens with the eruption of World War I, and as the cataclysmic conflict deepens and Irish are cut down in droves on the Western Front, viewers experience the events largely in Dublin, Belfast, and London through the prism of three young women along with their families, friends, and lovers. All are juxtaposed against the gathering turmoil of the push for Irish independence. Idealism, tangled loyalties to family and social, cultural, and political tradition, raw opportunism – all of these themes others loom large in the production.

Directed by Finnish native Aku Louhimies and written and co-produced by Colin Teevan, “Rebellion” features a strong cast and some vivid performances. Notable among the stars are Charlie Murphy, Brian Gleeson, and Ruth Bradley – all well-known to many viewers from their turns in “Love/Hate” – and Sarah Greene, of “Penny Dreadful.”

Murphy plays medical student Elizabeth Butler, whose family and fiancé are determined to show their support for both the British war effort and for Home Rule. She goes in a decidedly different direction by joining the women rebels led by Countess Constance Markievicz. Their mission is to seize and hold Stephen’s Green and set up headquarters in the Royal College of Surgeons during the Rising. Gleeson is Jimmy Mahon, an Irish Citizen Army man in love with Elizabeth.