Cork Midsummer Festival is going back to its roots as an umbrella for the city’s thriving arts scene, says Colette Sheridan.

One of the highlight’s of this year’s Cork Midsummer Festival will see the Everyman Theatre transformed into a witches’ coven of "blood curdling intrigue".

Actor, director and producer Julie Kelleher is relishing the challenge of taking the helm at the Everyman Theatre, writes Colette Sheridan

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In Michael West’s play for the Peacock, an old box prompts an examination of a marriage, says Pádraic Killeen

Jim Nolan tells Marjorie Brennan how his play is inspired by the triumph of the human spirit in the face of fundamentalist hysteria.

The outgoing artistic director of Cork’s Everyman Palace picked his top three choices for this season as he launched the theatre’s Spring programme.

Cork’s premier theatre is in danger of closing if funding is not provided for its structural upkeep.

Drama, music, comedy and family events will dominate the autumn/winter programme at The Everyman Theatre.

FIRST published in 1813, Jane Austen’s piercing observation of society, social customs and snobbery, has enjoyed a popularity granted to few novels. Pride and Prejudice has become one of the best known and best loved works in English literature, and to date has sold in excess of 20m copies.

BALLYDEHOB-BASED writer, Carmel Winters, has explored delicate subjects, such as the sexuality of people who have special needs in the play, B for Baby.

Everyman Theatre writer-in-residence Carmel Winters is seeking letters for a unique Cork storytelling project.

US actor Patrick Cronin returns to his Cork roots for an iconic role, says Colette Sheridan

Patrick Moy in the title role of Richard II.

Cork City theatre is nurturing talent by funding new plays, and by inviting the public to collaborate, says Colette Sheridan

A production by the Everyman theatre and Cork Operatic Society has secured the Best Opera prize in the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards.

The Everyman Theatre launched its Spring 2013 programme in Cork yesterday evening.

A highlight of Midsummer Festival was a series of plays performed in unlikely locations about Cork city, says arts editor Marc O’Sullivan

For four days next week, the work of a bevy of young artists will be promoted at the Elysian, writes Colette Sheridan

Despite a tough economic environment, the Everyman has a rich and varied summer programme, says Colette Sheridan

THE historic Everyman Palace Theatre has appointed internationally acclaimed British-born director Michael Barker-Caven as its new artistic director.