Australian composer and violist Brett Dean plays in Cork and other Irish centres, writes Cathy Desmond

Looking for something to do this week? Here’s our list of recommendations for you.

New Cork theatre company, Scruffy Duck Productions, stages its debut show, The Last Five Years, at the Stack Theatre in the CIT Cork School of Music this week. The musical is by Tony Award-winning playwright, Jason Robert Brown and runs until Saturday.

An award-winning teenage violin sensation has added a hi-tech string to her bow.

RAIN and jazz – the two usually go together like rhythm and blues at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.