‘SUPERFICIAL, flighty, witty and effervescent,” is how director, Michael Cabot, of London Classic Theatre, always regarded the work of Noel Coward whose play, Private Lives, is at Cork’s Everyman.

Annabelle Comyn feels her revival of John Osborne’s classic play will show how its central angry young man is very much alive in today’s world, writes Alan O’Riordan.

PAVAROTTI’S beguiling magic did not hang solely on strings of glistening high Cs. It was heard over the entire range of beautifully forged vowels and words, resonating on a cavernous timbre of burnt sienna and gold. Melodious, intense and achingly lovely, it ensnared our senses and emotions.

SO Peter O’Toole wryly contemplates his eighth Oscar nomination. For my part, I am of an age and was sufficiently star-struck to have followed his career play-by-play and film-by-film from the 1950s.

ALISTAIR COOKE, the broadcaster and journalist, has died.