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.

AT Blackrock Castle Observatory tonight, the Buzz Aldrin All Stars perform a live sound-track to Spanish artist Esperenza Collado’s series of film loops, Moon.

* TODAY AT THE FESTIVAL

She’s performed on stage with top acts like Take That, Shakira, Moby, The Killers, Elbow and P Diddy.

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

Tom Creed promises an innovative but accessible programme for the 16th Cork Midsummer Festival, says Carl Dixon

BEGINNING on Saturday, September 3, Burren House in Kilbrittain, west Cork, will present a weekend of opera, with an innovative combination of Mozart’s The Impresario and Leoncavello’s Pagliacci by the Garden Opera Company.

THERE’S a moment every summer holiday when the brain snaps off and, like Tennyson’s Lotos Eaters, leaves you isolated in “a land in which it always seems afternoon... where all things always seem the same.”