The hit Broadway adaptation of the acclaimed romantic film won eight Tony awards and is opening in Dublin tonight. Its writer Enda Walsh talks to Pádraic Killeen

ONE of the world’s most acclaimed set and costume designers, Corkman Bob Crowley was a mere five-time Tony Award winner before he signed up to design Once.

President Michael D Higgins led tributes last night to the team behind an Irish musical which triumphed at the Tony Awards in New York.

President Michael D Higgins led tributes to the creators of an Irish musical which scooped eight Tony Awards.

Jo Kerrigan rounds up some of the major theatrical events across the globe this year

OUTSPOKEN economist and commentator David McWilliams will open a month-long public debate on the future of arts and culture in Cork city this week.

THERE were lukewarm reviews for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies yesterday with some critics doubtful the long-awaited sequel to The Phantom Of The Opera will prove as successful as the original.

A CORK city man has won two prestigious Tony awards at this year’s ceremony in New York.

Australia’s worst bush fires in a generation raged out of control around Sydney today, claiming the life of a second elderly man as winds pushed the towering flames closer to the city’s affluent northern suburbs.