Joanne McNally is giving audiences a free preview of her Edinburgh Fringe Festival show in Cork this evening.

Twin choreographers Megan and Jessica Kennedy explore the innermost fears of Cork people for their ambitious dance opera, writes Ellie O’Byrne

Tom Lane is back in Cork for the third instalment of his lighthearted series, writes Cathy Desmond.

The last Sonya Kelly play to visit Cork was How To Keep An Alien, which dealt with her fight to keep her Australian girlfriend Kate in Ireland.

Ruth O’Connor discovers Margaret O’Connor’s mischievous street art millinery popping up in some unusual spots.

Theatre Review: Dublin Fringe Festival - Various venues

Music, comedy, drama and the annual Christmas panto will bring the Everyman Theatre’s 120th anniversary celebrations to a close, the venue’s autumn/winter programme launch has revealed.

Rachel Croash is a soprano from Dublin, and performs in Opera Collective Ireland’s new production Owen Wingrave.

Eoghan O’Sullivan shares the latest news from the world of entertainment.

GIG WISE: Coldplay is the biggie this weekend as Chris Martin and co perform at Croke Park tomorrow.

During the Dublin Fringe festival, Override will explore our relationship with technology and how it will effect human relationships, writes Padraic Killeen

While he awaits news on Love/Hate, Peter Coonan is keeping busy with stage and film roles, writes Padraic Killeen

THE hardest role seasoned actor Noelle Brown has ever played is that of herself.

Around €320,000 in funding has been announced for major festivals and events around Ireland this year.

THE play Lippy was a cult hit when it first appeared, briefly, at the Dublin Fringe Festival, in 2013. It won best production at the Irish theatre awards that year (disclosure: this writer was one of the judges).

An antidote to the January blues is First Fortnight, Ireland’s only arts festival that discusses mental health and its stigma. 

RICHIE Egan is clearly a man who loves what he does.

The Irish Hotels Federation has questioned the accuracy of findings by hotel booking site Trivago which indicated a drop in prices in September.

It takes two to tango. And when your partner is internet giant Google, your dance is going to go global.

"The past is never dead," wrote William Faulkner. "It’s not even past." Between Trees and Water, a new show by Cork theatre company, Painted Bird, is convinced of this stubborn relevance of the past to the present.

Irish actor Steve Blount, one of the co-creators and stars of Swing, currently on at the Edinburgh Arts Festival, was at a house party about a decade ago when he first met his co-star Janet Moran.

This Is How We Fly, a group that brings a diverse range of skills and experiences together, are out to make honest music.

Life-long model maker Pat McGrath tells Colette Sheridan about his one-man play.

IN the arts, January is a quiet month. Yet last week, I saw two major plays, Druid’s production of Dion Boucicault’s The Colleen Bawn and the revival of Martin McDonagh’s A Skull in Connemara.

THE recent announcement of a laureate for Irish fiction, for which the recipient will be awarded €150,000 over three years, is welcome for writers and readers.

Theatre - Lifedeath

THE sun has set on another Dublin Fringe Festival and on the five-year tenure of its artistic director, Róise Goan. She should be proud of the performing arts festival, even if this year it was hit-and-miss.

It was vicious to watch. Two elderly tramps taunt and attack each other.

After a four-year hiatus, Dublin songwriter, David Turpin, returns this week with a new album, We Belong Dead. He now trades as The Late David Turpin, a wry nod to the fact that, in late 2011, he briefly lost his heartbeat following a swimming accident.

PLAYING the field is part of being young and single and apps are an extra dimension to dating. Convenience and efficiency are hot commodities, so an online catalogue of potential mates is the ultimate tool for workaholics and lazy students.

Dublin Fringe’s Show in a Bag plays are designed to tour cheaply

“We’ve had a really enjoyable journey over the last 18 months,” says Dan Colley, the company’s resident director. “But we’ve got to keep the fire under us.”

Next week’s Fringe will be Róise Goan’s last as director. She has helped make the festival the spiritual home of contemporary performance, says Pádraic Killeen

Glengarriff actress Clodagh Downing has secured an offer for a distribution deal in Cannes for her first short film.

Stefanie Preissner bares her soul in the autobiographical play, Solpadeine Is My Boyfriend, writes Colette Sheridan

PRIOR to 2004, such circusry skills as trapeze and aerial silk didn’t have much of a profile in Ireland.

Acclaimed play Follow shares the theatrical elements of sign language with a wider audience, writes Pádraic Killeen

Dublin plays host to a three-day festival of international actor-led theatre next week, says Pádraic Killeen

A decade on from his first play, some of Tom Swift’s eclectic back catalogue has been collected for posterity, writes Alan O’Riordan

Are single people just waiting for love to find them, or are they happy to enjoy the freedom, asks Colette Sheridan

Croí Glan premiere their new dance work in Dublin this evening, writes Colette Sheridan

Actors staging one of William Shakespeare’s greatest plays are set to make history in a Cork theatre tonight for an audience with sensory impairments.

The annual Fringe Festival has been launched in Dublin.