The Telephone Shop, a one woman show written and performed by Co Cork-based Sally Elsbury is billed as “where Tantra meets Commedia dell’arte”.

Liam Heylin’s latest play revolves around four corvids on the streets of Cork, writes Colette Sheridan.

Highly-educated people are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, a study shows.

Cara O’Sullivan and Majella Cullagh have joined forces for a touring show of favourite tunes, writes Jo Kerrigan.

Cork-based performer Wasps vs Humans (aka Carl Antony Plover) is starring in The Nearly Men which comes to Cork Arts Theatre on the evening of Thursday, June 1. 

Des O’Driscoll picks five of the best events to check out this week. 

Des Keogh, 81, was born in Birr, Co Offaly, and worked for Guinness for three years before becoming a fulltime actor and presenter in 1963. He’s currently touring in the The Quiet Land by Malachy McKenna, which will run at Cork Arts Theatre from Tuesday, April 11 to Thursday 13.

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Des O’Driscoll takes a look at what’s goes on around the country. 

THE late actor, broadcaster and seanachaí, Eamon Kelly, has left a treasure trove of stories that are being brought to life by actor, Jack Healy. 

MUSIC NEWS: After Body & Soul and Castlepalooza, the muddy fields of the midlands take a break from festival season this weekend. Probably for the best as Beyonce gets her Beyhive in Formation for a show that’s not quite sold out at Croke Park tomorrow.

Cork Midsummer Festival runs this weekend and next. Here are some of the early highlights:

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The rising problem of regional homelessness will be the focus of a major one-day conference in Cork today.

When Carl Plover was a boy his mother read Under Milkwood to him and his new show marks today’s centenary of the Welshman’s birth, says Colette Sheridan

Mephisto bring their production of David Harrower’s controversial play Blackbird to Cork Arts Theatre next week. The play was also a hit at last year’s Galway Theatre Festival.

Majella Cullagh interprets Tom Lehrer and so much more in her new show, says Jo Kerrigan

Breathless is inspired by the disappearance of several women, writes Colette Sheridan

CORK actor Aidan O’Hare’s year is off to a good start with the return of the hit play Love, Peace and Robbery in which he stars. It opens at the Everyman this evening and runs for a week.

MY friend Mike Dwyer recalls meeting the late Séamus Heaney and the playwright Brian Friel at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts.

Inspired by a real-life encounter, The Woolgatherer, a play about two neurotic people looking for love, runs at the Cork Arts Theatre from September 2-7.

A FASCINATING psychosexual thriller is how director, John Hayes, describes Clocked, which opens at the Cork Arts Theatre on June 6.

A fast-moving contemporary tale that promises to have audiences at the edge of their seats is opening tonight in Cork.

SIX one-act plays will be performed and judged over four nights, from tonight, in two different categories at Writers’ Week at the Cork Arts Theatre.

MUSIC NEWS: Ex Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl has announced the latest of his supergroup projects, the Sound City Players.

MUSIC NEWS: He hasn’t gone away, y’know.

Liam Heylin’s comedic crime caper gets a new airing at Cork Arts Theatre this month. Colette Sheridan talks to actor Aidan O’Hare

Bravo to the team involved with the improvised Halloween Murder Mystery currently running at the Cork Arts Theatre.

Corcadorca present a rehearsed reading of Pat McCabe’s Stars of Bel Air at Triskel at 6pm this evening. Also this evening at 8pm Bowerbird presents folk acts Andy Irvine, Sam Amidon, Adrian Crowley and Serafina Steer at Triskel Christchurch.

Continuing today are Siamsa Tire’s What the Folk?, Dylan Tighe’s Record at the Half Moon Theatre and Ronan Leonard’s Adventures of a Music Nerd at the Crane Lane.

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.

A CRITICALLY-acclaimed play about one of Scotland’s greatest unsolved mysteries – the disappearance of Moira Anderson, 11, during a snow storm in the 1950s – will hit Cork later this month.

ON Friday, March 5, I attended a charity event at the Cork Arts Theatre, Carroll’s Quay, organised by Alma Kickham, actress and teacher with CADA Performing Arts Academy, in aid of Haiti.

A GARDA file on the suspicious death of the son of Killinaskully actor Jim Queally is to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions, it emerged yesterday.

AS a blow-in — I’ve only been here for 38 years — I was taking an English friend on a walking tour round my adopted city of Cork when he pointed out something which we all take for granted.