At the Cork theatre, every scene has a song in this imaginative production that combines glamour with gaiety

Cork Opera House pantomime fillets the Aladdin fable with ruthless narrative economy

Katerina Petrova, Tsetso Ivanov, Francesc Saura and Shin Kurokawa shine under Alan Foley’s crisp direction

Imperilled church in Farahy is the last standing link with Bowen’s Court, the writer’s Co Cork home

Theatre: Loveday Ingram’s subtle direction is complemented by strong performances in the stage version of the bestselling novel

Sara Joyce directs the Everyman’s revival of a witty play about contemporary modes of speech and even thought

This is typical of the author’s tone of mild speculation that he dares to wonder if the fires set by British troops in 1920 were good for the city

Late sculptor’s influential book is about to be republished. It’s full of esteem for the fellow ‘men of the dust’ he met as an apprentice stone carver in Cork

Des Kennedy, head of the Everyman, is directing Making History, about Hugh O’Neill, earl of Tyrone, as the first production in the Cork theatre’s Everyman Made series

Theatre: Grace O’Halloran, the production’s 11-year-old star, has an immediate, unforced rapport with the young audience

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

Theatre: Megan Pottinger brings distinction of style to tile role

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

Theatre: Al Dalton directs Ciaran Bermingham in The Cure. Leon Danza directs Niall Holland, Simon McKeon and Mike O’Dowd in After Luke

Theatre: Telling has the comedy of self-awareness but falters as it gathers its darkness