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Beat the January blues and bring the family along to Cork's favourite traditional Pantomime, Beauty and the Beast , at the Everyman, for barrels of laughs and fun.

Kodo is one of the best known and most influential taiko performing arts ensemble in the world and returns to the Birmingham to drum in the new year on Monday 5 February at Symphony Hall, Birmingham.

People across the North West will be celebrating St.

This much hyped and widely advertised production incorporated a lot of elements and took a lot of risks, while some worked not all panned out, leaving the play inconsistent in tone and style.

It's a tale as old as time, or certainly as old as any fairy tale, but Smock Alley Theatre's production The Grimm Tale of Cinderella manages to put a fresh spin on an old reliable, masterfully knowing where to pay homage to sanctified tradition and where to shake things up, so to speak.

Artistic Director David Agler has confirmed the repertoire for the main evening operas for the 67th Wexford Festival Opera in 2018.

On Friday, 9 February, Heresy Records will release Heresy, the first opera by composer Roger Doyle, who is known as The Godfather of Irish Electronic Music .

This festive season, a fantastical new Christmas show for children up to the age of 6 comes to The Belgrade Theatre, Coventry as Santa's Mixed Up Martian crash-lands on stage from Thursday 7 Sunday 24 December.

The Christmas season isn't complete without a visit to Cork's favourite traditional Pantomime at the Everyman.

Cillian Murphy in Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter, adapted and Directed by Enda Walsh, makes its world premi re: Tuesday 20 March 2018, 8pm at the Black Box Theatre, Galway (previews from 16 March.

The CIT Cork School of Music Percussion Department gets together once again with Voiceworks Studio for an afternoon of music-making in aid of the CUH Children's Unit.

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It was announced today that the world premiere production of Asking for It by Louise O'Neill will be performed on the Abbey stage next November.

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock classic Jesus Christ Superstar is to be given a brand new high-tech re-imagining for the new year when it opens at the Bardic Theatre, Donaghmore on Friday 26 January 2018.

This Beach is a blistering satire of white western privilege made in response to the global refugee crisis, from multi-award-winning theatre company Brokentalkers (The Blue Boy, Have I No Mouth, Circus Animals' Desertion).

When you think of a rose, a clock, a candlestick, a teapot and Beauty what have you got? This year's magical tale of Beauty and the Beast which will bring the beautiful old theatre alive from Saturday, 9th December.

Jean Kelly (harp) and Fiona Kelly (flute) are the soloists with the Cork Pops Orchestra in the forthcoming 'Harp Magic' concerts for schools in City Hall, Cork, on November 7th, 8th & 9th, and University Concert Hall, Limerick, on November 10th.

Jean Kelly (harp) and Fiona Kelly (flute) are the soloists with the Cork Pops Orchestra in the forthcoming 'Harp Magic' concerts for schools in City Hall, Cork, on November 7th, 8th & 9th, and University Concert Hall, Limerick, on November 10th.

The annual Cork Pops Orchestra series of concerts for primary and post primary schools continues with 'Harp Magic', presented by Evelyn Grant and featuring harpist Jean Kelly.

Last night the curtain fell on the 2017 Wexford Festival Opera.

Moonfish Theatre's critically-acclaimed, sell-out success Star of the Sea is touring Ireland and the US this autumn, with three nights at Cork's Everyman Tuesday 7th, Wednesday 8th & Thursday 9th November.

Acclaimed playwright Donal O'Kelly's tour de force psychological comedy Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son comes to The New Theatre this week.

AboutFACE Ireland have announced the final selections for their 2017 NEWvember Dublin New Plays Festival a showcase of original plays to be held at Belvedere House on Great Denmark Street, in Dublin's city centre, November 16-19 2017.

Jean Kelly (harp) and Fiona Kelly (flute) are the soloists with the Cork Pops Orchestra in the forthcoming 'Harp Magic' concerts for schools in City Hall, Cork, on November 7th, 8th & 9th, and University Concert Hall, Limerick, on November 10th.

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