Theatre Nights: Podcast festival in Cork, CADA shows, and more 

The Cork Podcast Festival is in full swing at the Opera House, with Blindboy on stage tonight (only a few tickets left) and Crime World’s Nicola Tallant tomorrow night.

Saturday brings How To Gael, Ireland’s very first bilingual podcast, which gives you all a chance to extend those cupla focail! Join Doireann Ní Ghlacáin, Louise Cantillon, and their special guests, and enjoy the delights of using our ancient, proud native language!

On Sunday, Rosie O’Donnell’s Common Knowledge is selling fast, while the following Thursday, April 2, I’m Grand Mam - Happy Campers - is already fully sold out. All bookings on 021 427 0022 or at www.corkoperahouse.ie.

Tuesdays With Morrie opens tonight at the Everyman, and continues until Saturday. The heartwarming story of an ambitious journalist and his relationship with his former professor who is nearing the end, explores the whole meaning of life. Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom from Albom’s original text.

Sunday brings another view on life with Hello My Friend: Unleash The Power Within, a powerful live experience designed to help you reconnect with yourself.

And on Tuesday March 31, a lighter look at the whole thing with Kaleb Cooper, he of the deadpan humour and practical outlook.

There is more humour next Wednesday and Thursday with Vittorio Angelone in You Can’t Say Nothing Any More.

Call 021 450 1673 or www.everymancork.com for all bookings.

Unmasked ’26 is in full swing at Cork Arts Theatre this week, with packed houses of proud parents and friends to witness the talented performers of CADA, aged from just three and a half up.

Directed by Catherine Mahon-Buckley, with individual shows directed by Fionula Linehan, Moyra O’Hare, and Megan O’Mahony, expect magical pieces, including some written by the students themselves! Tonight and tomorrow at 7pm, plus Saturday at 2.30pm.

Next week, from Thursday to Saturday, April 2-4, the Lorca Theatre Company from Coláiste Éamann Rís present two one-act plays, Shakespeare’s Macbeth (adapted) and Romero by Bill Sullivan.

Directed by Bill Sullivan and Niamh Fanning, these are distinctly different versions of the classics: the first is more of a macho, feminist Macbeth, portraying even the witches as deeply wronged women, while the second is transposted to 1970s El Salvador with the church, military juntas, and turbulent politics all playing their part.

Nothing like an alternative view to give you a fresh outlook on the originals! Call 021 450 5624 or www.corkartstheatre.com for all bookings.

Patrick McDonnell is on stage this Saturday at the Cork Comedy Club, doing his hilarious stand-up act. A star of The Savage Eye, Irish Pictorial Weekly, and Naked Camera, he is perhaps best known as Eoin McLove in Father Ted. Doors 8pm, show at 9pm. www.tickets.ietarget="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> or www.thecomedyclub.ie. 

Easter is approaching, and you might like advance notice of the Glen Theatre Drama Group in Banteer’s production of Wake In The West, a delightful comedy written by Michael J. Ginnelly and directed by Tadhg O’Keeffe, on April 5-6 at 8pm.

Soon after, John B. Keane’s classic, The Love-Hungry Farmer, starring Seamus O’Rourke as John Bosco McLaine, on Friday, April 10. Tickets on 029 56239 or www.glentheatre.ie.

They are holding one of their great movie nights at St Catherine’s Cultural Centre in Kinsale on Wednesday, April 1, at 7pm. This screening is of Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, which won an Academy Award for Hanks back in 1993.

That’s followed by a trad and folk show by Mochua on Friday, April 3, featuring acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Karl Nesbitt. 8pm start for that one. www.sccc.ie for more info, or ring 086 850 4862.