Sean Kelly News

The Everyman has announced its 2022 Christmas Panto will be Cinderella with tickets to go on sale Tuesday, 2nd of August. 

The Everyman's Summer highlight will be a world premiere of John B. Keane's Letters of a Country Postman – a humorous fictional account of the exploits of a postman in rural Ireland and a love song to the postal system and its enduring importance today.

Jazz at Lincoln Center today announced the three top-placing high school jazz bands in the nation and more than 35 other individual and section awards in the prestigious 27th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center and the hallmark program for the largest jazz education network in the world. Grounded in the nonprofit JALC's 34-year history of educational excellence in jazz, Essentially Ellington has fostered the talent and appreciation for jazz music in over one million young musicians.

Diablo Ballet will present the final program of its 21- 22 Season with, Coppélia, May 20 – 21 at the Lesher Center for the Arts. This full-length ballet, accompanied by the Diablo Symphony Orchestra under Music Director Matilda Hofman with feature newly created costumes by Amanda Farris and Christopher Dunn.

On Easter Monday night, 19th April 1897, the building first opened its doors as the Cork Palace of Varieties. On the opening night the Chairman, Mr John O'Connell said, it was “without question the prettiest, most commodious, and best equipped place of entertainment in Ireland.”

AstonRep Theatre Company will conclude its 2020-21 season with the Chicago premiere of Sarah Treem's courageous drama When We Were Young and Unafraid, directed by Sara Pavlak McGuire.

AstonRep Theatre Company will conclude its 2020-21 season with the Chicago premiere of Sarah Treem's courageous drama When We Were Young and Unafraid, directed by Sara Pavlak McGuire*, playing May 13 – June 12, 2022 at The Edge Off-Broadway Theater, 1133 W. Catalpa Ave. in Chicago.

The Everyman is inviting applications to join its Board from enthusiastic individuals with a keen interest in Theatre, Cultural Citizenship, Audiences and Entertainment.

With the energy of a world-wide spectacle, contestants will represent nearly 20 countries from around the globe in this very special international championship featuring animals of all varieties, from your favorite felines to an exotic armadillo and bearded dragon to an adorable miniature horse, along with many other surprising moments!

Broadway and West End leads Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope will reprise their show-stopping turns as the American GI Jerry Mulligan and the young Parisian dancer Lise Dassin in Australia in An American In Paris, with two of the country's leading lights Cameron Holmes and Dimity Azoury from The Australian Ballet, to alternate in the lead roles.

The Everyman has announced the much-anticipated return of Cork's favourite traditional family Pantomime. As we enter a whole new world, this year's show, Aladdin is sure to enchant children and delight audiences of all ages.

As the most celebrated and enduring brass quintet in history, Canadian Brass unveil the first peek at their forthcoming and first ever all-Canadian album with the release of 'Hallelujah' - available now.

On 23 September 2021, after 547 days of closure, The Everyman will re-open its doors to live audiences. Taking a considered and safe approach to re-opening, it won't be at full capacity, it won't even be at the 60% allowed under current restrictions to give staff a chance to embed new practices around safely getting audiences in and out of the building.

The 28th Season opens with a new full-length production of Julia Adam's smash holiday hit, The Nutcracker Suite. The Diablo family and their daughter Clara, return to the Nutcracker Suite at the Fairmont Hotel for another Christmas Eve adventure!

The program will feature eight large-scale installations that propose modes of address grounded in research and propelled by empathy that will allow visitors to negotiate the unsettling conditions that define our current reality.

Diablo Ballet virtually presents the final program of its 27th Season, Love Stories, June 18-27, featuring three ballets, including the romantic duet Carousel (A Dance) inspired by the Broadway musical by renowned choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. 

Opera Omaha has announced its Poetry & Music Project 20/21 Concert. Join in for the virtual premiere on May 16th at 1pm of eleven original pieces of music created through the Poetry & Music Project!

The Arts Council RAISE programme is focused on growing private investment to the arts in Ireland by embedding a culture of sustainable philanthropy across participating organisations and the Everyman in Cork has been announced as a participant in this year's programme.

The Everyman has announced the upcoming release of Made in Cork | Play It By Ear: a selection of rehearsed readings from its successful audio broadcast programme, all with a very Cork flavour, which will be made available for the month of March.

The Everyman has taken the decision to shut their building and postpone further Play It by Ear live audio broadcasts, for a short period, to ensure the safety of artists, arts workers, and staff.