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Two popular Kilkenny festivals have been slated for not using the city’s civic theatre as a venue for festival gigs this year.

The programme for the 2011 RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival was announced recently. Plays offered by the nine finalists will take place from Friday April 29 to Saturday May 7.

A WORKSHOP exploring the Chekhov and Lecoq acting techniques will take place from Monday April 25 to Friday 29 from 10am to 5pm.

THE GALWAY Actors Workshop will begin its summer term of classes for adults next month in the Anno Santo Hotel in Salthill.

NUI Galway students are performing Vincent Woods’ At The Black Pig’s Dyke in the Nuns Island Theatre today, tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday at 8pm.

SECOND AGE Theatre Company come to the Town Hall with a sleek new production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet directed by Aoife Spillane-Hinks, one of the brightest young directors in contemporary Irish theatre and a graduate of NUI, Galway.

The Irish Student Drama Association, the umbrella organisation for college and university drama societies, will hold its festival in Galway city in March.

It is told that the then Nan Denning was in a world of her own, singing away as she made her way down McHale Road, Castlebar, at the ripe old age of 14, when she was overheard by Tony O’Grady from Manulla. He enquired if Nan would sing in his band which comprised John Lally on saxophone, Toddy Buckley from Knockthomas on drums, Gerald Ralph from Moneen on drums, and Tony himself on accordion. Nan’s first gig was at the Eclipse Ballroom in Ballyhaunis with her opening number “Buttons & Bows”. From there started a long and talented singing career which brought Nan from the dance halls of Mayo to the Castlebar pantomime stage.

THE AWARD winning Fíbín Puppet and Performance Co is holding a casting session for this year’s programme.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY singer Isla Grant, Irish folk singer Johnny McEvoy, and the ever popular Lambert Puppet Theatre are all coming to the Town Hall Theatre.