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NEW YORK’S Benefit Of The Doubt Theatre Company touch down at the Town Hall Studio next week with their staging of Darlene Craviotto’s uproarious dark comedy, Pizza Man.

In Sligo town the library was. On the floor of a dusty old attic, the books hadn’t been moved for decades and, with the exception of some older local history journals, seemed to be of little interest. However, based on the promise of these journals, a deal was struck.

ATHENRY WRITER Anji O’Donnell has just published her debut collection of poetry, High & Dry, and it has received high praise from leading crime writer Ken Bruen.

THE IRISH rock, indie, and singer-songwriter scene has never been healthier or more vibrant yet there is still a feeling that many of our best bands are still ‘local heroes’.

GALWAY BASED writer Celeste Augé, who was shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award in 2009, will host creative writing classes in the Galway Arts Centre.

WRITER/PERFORMER Peadar De Burca returns to the Town Hall next week with the final episode of his hit comic trilogy dissecting the male psyche and its desires. Having already regaled audiences with his comic explorations of What Men Want and Why Men Cheat he now spills the beans on Why Men Marry. And as it transpires, De Burca is singularly well placed to discuss the topic because he married his Polish girlfriend Wanda just a couple of weeks ago. Indeed the material in the show largely charts his own odyssey toward that fateful phrase ‘I do’. “With the other shows I was interviewing other men about what they wanted and why they cheated, etc, but this one is much more about my own personal experiences,” he discloses over an afternoon coffee. “A friend came to see one of the other shows and they observed afterwards that whenever I was talking about my own experiences rather than those of people I’d interviewed it seemed to come more from the heart and consequently worked better. So I took that on board and this show is about my own marriage experiences and my wedding and my ideas about it all. Of course you’re still taking into account the people around you, your mother, your bride, her family and they’re all included in the story too.”

This September Galway Arts Centre is offering a new fiction workshop, facilitated by writer Celeste Augé, who was shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award this year. Salmon Poetry recently published her collection ‘The Essential Guide to Flight’.

When Barnstorm’s Boy With a Suitcase started its maiden voyage last year, little did the team know they’d be remounting the production just 12 months later for a major national tour and that they’d be invited to perform in the prestigious international Opening Doors festival in Wales.

“THERE’S A cool web of language winds us in,” wrote poet Robert Graves and for those in the arts who deploy text as a key element of their work the recurrent challenge is to break free of that web and find fresh, stimulating, ways to express themselves and communicate with their audiences.

Critically acclaimed Irish cellist Gerald Peregrine and pianist Cathal Breslin perform a programme of much-loved cello works at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Thursday September 10 at 8pm. Young classical stars in the ascendant, Gerald and Cathal are both laureates of the Royal College of Music in London, former Fulbright scholars and recipients of National Concert Hall Rising Star debut recitals. This is a chance to experience two of Ireland's finest young performers and rising stars live in concert. Catch them now. The concert is grant assisted by a Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and presented in association with RTÉ Lyric fm. Gerald Peregrine and Cathal Breslin perform at the Linenhall Arts Centre on Thursday September 10 at 8pm.