The Second Woman review: Eileen Walsh’s 24-hour performance reveals something astonishing about us
Cork Midsummer Festival 2025: Playing the same break-up scene on a loop, with 100 different men, the actor is up for anything, alive to each variation
Cork Opera House
Theatre for One: Made in Cork review – One actor, one audience member and a life unravelling
Cork Midsummer Festival 2025: In a tiny peep-show-style booth, in a five-minute play, a character opens the mess of their private life to you
The Guide: Gemma Hayes, Dr Strangelove, Jess Gillam and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
February 1st-7th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Cinderella: Cork Opera House puts on a spectacular, enchanting pantomime
Theatre: Megan Pottinger brings distinction of style to tile role
Gregory Porter review: Cork Jazz Festival at its best, with music that reaches out and welcomes you in
The Grammy winner gets his biggest cheer for Hey Laura, but Porter standards such as Liquid Spirit and Mister Holland are no less rapturously received
Theatre for One: This Ireland review – Brilliant, totally immersive one-to-one plays
Cork Midsummer Festival 2024: The brilliance of these 12 five-minute plays lies in their containment
Cara O’Sullivan’s Irish opera legacy: ‘An almost mythical figure, tall, imperious – and hilarious’
Late soprano’s contribution to music is remembered in Cork Opera House’s Cara O’Sullivan Associate Artists programme
Jack and the Beanstalk at Cork Opera House: Spectacle, sophistication and style
Theatre: This pantomime’s energetic cast seize the production’s comic opportunities at every turn
Guy Barker: ‘all the rock’n’rollers love Charles Mingus’
A fearsome character and fierce jazz innovator, Charles Mingus was a bridge between the early and modern jazz eras
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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