Red Riding Hood: Everyman’s warm-hearted panto sparkles with exuberance
Theatre: Grace O’Halloran, the production’s 11-year-old star, has an immediate, unforced rapport with the young audience
Chocs away: three Irish artisans offering an immersive chocolate experience
These Cork, Limerick and Wexford chocolatiers not only create their own chocolate recipes, but visitors also get a chance to see how it all happens
Cinderella: Cork Opera House puts on a spectacular, enchanting pantomime
Theatre: Megan Pottinger brings distinction of style to tile role
Sugar review: Amiable amble through a factory worker’s life could do with more theatrical spice
Michael Patric’s play misses the opportunity to pull the drama of the end of Ireland’s sugar industry into the story of its craic-loving factory worker
The Cure and After Luke: Cónal Creedon double bill shows this writer’s gift for bringing light into dark places
Theatre: Al Dalton directs Ciaran Bermingham in The Cure. Leon Danza directs Niall Holland, Simon McKeon and Mike O’Dowd in After Luke
Gatman! review: Tadhg Hickey’s monologue is an exposition of inebriation as something joyous
Theatre: Telling has the comedy of self-awareness but falters as it gathers its darkness
The Empty Nest review: Gogglebox-style exchanges provide witty take on married couple’s embattled relationship
Theatre: Oisín Flores Sweeney’s play should be longer – the audience leaves laughing but longing for more
Tempesta review: Stephanie Dufresne and Naoise Dunbar shine in Deirdre Kinahan’s moving play
Cork Midsummer Festival 2024: A play of such dimensions could repay a few more than these 75 minutes, especially with so much gorgeous writing to savour
Theatre for One: This Ireland review – Brilliant, totally immersive one-to-one plays
Cork Midsummer Festival 2024: The brilliance of these 12 five-minute plays lies in their containment
The Summer I Robbed a Bank review: A riot of inspired fun as David O’Doherty’s children’s book becomes stage show
Theatre: creative and innovative display of stagecraft using video and lighting with glee that enchants audience
Passion play: Cork theatre fights for its future
The closure of Corcadorca theatre company, in 2022, left a hole that the city’s remaining theatre community is battling to fill
The Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey review: Superbly skilled Mikel Murfi pares his one-man confessional to its emotional bone
Theatre: Mikel Murfi writes, directs and stars in the final play in trio that began with The Man in the Woman’s Shoes and I Hear You and Rejoice
The Pigeon Factory review: Aaron O’Neill gives an ingenious, consistently entertaining performance
Theatre: Directed by Dee Finn, this adroit production revives the passion for pigeon fancying that sent swirls of homing birds into Irish skies
Cara O’Sullivan’s Irish opera legacy: ‘An almost mythical figure, tall, imperious – and hilarious’
Late soprano’s contribution to music is remembered in Cork Opera House’s Cara O’Sullivan Associate Artists programme
Beauty and the Beast: Jubilant panto has audience roaring enough to peel gilding off the Everyman’s ceiling
Theatre: Driven by very attractive singing and by Anth Kaley’s musical direction, the pace is helter skelter