The Mick Flannery album that grew into a musical
The characters in Ursula Rani Sarma’s first musical, a collaboration with the Cork singer-songwriter called Evening Train, yearn to escape their small-town home
Theatre highlights: A bracing documentary on HIV in Ireland
Look out for ‘Rapids’, about life with HIV by Shaun Dunne, and the Abbey’s 24-hour plays
The Lonesome West review: A tale of anarchic rural communities
Crude hilarity arises from casual revelations- why is the Catholic church so forgiving of murder and so punitive of suicide
Yes we did: Irish theatre’s gender-equality revolution
Irish theatre came out blazing this week, proving that gender equality is ‘not hard to do, if you want to’
Gate Theatre: Number of women directors up from 8% to 80%
Huge rise in number of women employed was sparked by Waking the Feminists movement
Are we facing into a retail apocalypse?
What will happen to our high streets if everyone goes online to shop?
Veteran Cork actor Michael Twomey dies aged 84
Stalwart of the Cork stage was best known for his role in RTÉ’s ‘Hall’s Pictorial Weekly’
Dancing at Lughnasa review: All promises are sealed with a maybe
Brian Friel’s classic returns to the stage
Lovers review: Friel sorts the winners from the losers
The poetry remains intact in this revival of Brian Friel’s 1967 drama
Rebel Yell: the Cork renaissance?
Cork’s ‘little hum’ of creative confidence is building to a crescendo, its artists say
A devilish new plan for Faust at the Everyman
Director-conductor John O’Brien has taken an adventurous approach
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