Gershwin and Dorothy Parker: This week’s jazz highlights

One of the most exhilarating live acts on the Irish scene will also take to the stage

Composer Roger Doyle elevated to Saoi by Aosdána

Previous holders of title include Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Seamus Heaney

Honor Heffernan and Trevor Knight: The Whistling Girl – bringing Dorothy Parker’s dark wit to life

The drama and debacle of the Sallins train robbery

Musician Cormac Breatnach’s brother was wrongly convicted of the 1976 Sallins Mail Train Robbery at the behest of a cohort within the Garda. Now he hopes a new theatre show will cast light on the injustice

The Devil’s Spine Band: ‘a Mariachi bar in Mullingar’ crossed with Oscar Wilde’s west

The group’s latest performance is inspired by Wilde’s 1882 trip to lawless Leadville

Dark collaboration: four artists, four disciplines, one show

‘Visitant’, a work by composer Trevor Knight, visual artist Alice Maher, Butoh dancer Gyohei Zaitsu and musician Áine O’Dwyer, is more than the sum of its parts

Beauty in dereliction

Beckett’s words sing with contemporary relevance in this new production