Actor and singer Debbie Reynolds died barely a day after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher, with her final words being: “I want to be with Carrie,” writes Francesca Gosling.

A lot of blood, sweat and tears goes into staging a musical like Singin’ In The Rain, as Jo Kerrigan found when she went backstage at Cork Opera House

A production of Singin’ in the Rain drops 12 tonnes of water on the stage each night, writes Tina Darb O’Sullivan.