Singer and musician Liam Ó Maonlaí; writer and director Peter Sheridan; and journalist and author Susan McKay.

Written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and actor Sam Shepard, 'Kicking a Dead Horse' stars Stephen Rea. Rea plays Hobart, a man in a predicament, alone in the middle of nowhere trying to bury a dead horse - the animal having expired on day one of a trip into the desert. Hobart is a long way from New York and he can't quite figure out how he got into this mess in the first place. It seems that, even in the Western desert so familiar in the writings of Sam Shepard, the search for authenticity isn't getting any easier. The play, which was written specifically for Stephen Rea, is directed by Shepard himself. 'Kicking a Dead Horse' continues at the Peacock until 14 April.

When a low-budget Irish film wins the World Cinema Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, suddenly everybody is interested. Written and directed by John Carney, 'Once' is the story of two musicians - Glen Hansard of The Frames plays a guitar-toting busker who meets a girl from Eastern Europe on Grafton Street. She is played by Markéta Irglová, who is also a musician. While each character already has considerable baggage in the relationship department - and each is more than a little lost - music is a powerful thing. 'Once' opens at cinemas nationwide this Friday.

Read the RTÉ.ie Entertainment review of 'Once' here.

We heard from Sam Shepard earlier - and now to another American icon - the painter Georgia O'Keeffe. 'Nature and Abstraction' is a new exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, comprising some 30 works painted between 1918 and 1977. Rarely has an exhibition been so well titled because the works deal specifically with what was her major artistic preoccupation - that of nature and abstraction. There are landscapes, abstract works and of course her well known studies of flowers. Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction continues until 13 May.

Still in the west, we head for a Correctional Facility in Arizona. 'No Man's Land' is the fifth Frank Corso novel from American writer GM Ford. The Arizona prison is designed to hold the worst collection of criminals America has to offer - among them an ex-Navy submarine captain called Timothy Driver. The action gets under way immediately when Driver takes over the prison's security systems and begins to let everybody out. Soon the prison staff are being held hostage and Driver makes one demand - that his biographer, the true-crime writer Frank Corso, is delivered to him in person or he will start killing the hostages. 'No Man's Land' is published by Pan Macmillan at €19.

Neil Cowley played Shostakovich at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London when he was just ten-years-old. By his teens, however, he had turned to jazz and soul, going on to work with the Brand New Heavies and Zero 7. The Neil Cowley Triois in Dolan's Warehouse, Limerick on Wednesday, the Sugar Club in Dublin on Thursday and with us here tonight. Here with 'How Do We Catch Up', The Neil Cowley Trio.