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Peter Pan given a dazzling Derry makeover at the Millennium Forum
Big musical numbers, pyrotechnics and pixie dust-like sprinklings of the city's trademark sense of humour takes the age-old panto to a magical new place
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Myra's Story
A play so good they named it twice, Fionna Hewitt-Twamley not only fills Carmel McCafferty's shoes comfortably, but is bewitching as the rock bottom title character once known as Maire
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Hansel and Gretel
Featuring a role call of fictional favourites, the MAC's fairytale production places a feast of Northern Irish theatre talent firmly in the (sweet) shop window
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Waves
Gentle movement and vivid storytelling make more than a few ripples in this poignant and understated play about one woman's remarkable resilience
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The Train
While some elements lack steam, Rough Magic's musical has audiences on board for its retelling of a momentous, reproductive rights-fuelled journey
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The Faerie Thorn
After a promising preview, Big Telly bring Jane Talbot's North Coast fables to the stage in a fully realised adaptation fit for the company's 30th year
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Not everything works in this risky all-male revision, but ultimately the source material proves it to be still Wilde at heart
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Famla
John McCann's brooding drama borders on the bleak, but a sense of hope mirrored by the youth of today points to a better tomorrow
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Dirty Dancing
Staying true to the original, this steamy stage adaptation is guaranteed to satisfy fans of the classic, feel-good film
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Powder Her Face
Northern Ireland's first production of Thomas Adés's notorious, sex-fuelled opera holds a mirror to modern society and the perils of promiscuity
Beckett Trilogy
Lisa Dwan is ghostly and ghastly in this extraordinary production at The MAC
Punk Rock
A series of brilliant stage debuts transport Lyric Theatre audiences into the teenage heart of darkness
Reverend Billy
American comedy preacher brings his anti-consumerist campaign to Belfast's Corn Market with choir in tow
Bangor's Ghost
Rachel Coulter curates an evening of spooky song and storytelling at the Bangor Open House Festival
Brendel & Beckett
The Austrian pianist and poet is a witty if laconic conversationalist at the Happy Days festival
Panti Bliss
Ireland's leading drag queen delivers the Amnesty International Pride Lecture at The MAC in Belfast
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë's classical novel is adapted at Banbridge's Solitude Park
Comedy Day Festival
Colin Geddis is ringmaster as the Crescent Arts Centre hosts a smorgasbord of Northern Irish comics
Skylight
National Theatre's star-studded current production to be streamed live into Queen's Film Theatre on August 3
Little Jokes
Chatterbox Productions enter the weird world of Victorian renaissance man Edward Lear at The MAC
The Tailor of Inverness
The extraordinary story of one intrepid Polish father, soldier, tailor arrives at the Lyric Theatre
Septic Tiger
Pearse Elliott's latest work is an entertaining if unwieldy beast set in the border area of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
Suggs
Madness frontman turned touring raconteur recalls an extraordinary life well lived at the Ulster Hall
Fulcrum
Dylan Quinn reimagines Samuel Beckett's protest play Catastrophe
Flesh and Blood Women
Three plays 'beautifully refract' off each other to show the changing experiences of women
Demented
Gary Mitchell serves up a new crime comedy at the Lyric Theatre
Thirteen Steps
Patsy Durnin's sympathetic portrayal of the Derry Workhouse takes the audience back in time at The Playhouse
How Many Miles to Babylon?
Adapted from the novel by Jennifer Johnston, this story of class, war and lost love is a marvel
Sleeping Beauty
English Youth Ballet give 100 Northern Irish dancers the experience of a lifetime
Luke McGibbon
The Antrim comic completes an impressive debut solo stand up set at the Black Box
Fabulous Beast
Choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan interprets Stravinksy in Belfast
Dirty Dancin' in Le Shebeen
Leesa Harker's latest saucy stage adaptation is flaccid, but Maggie Muff dances on
Shot Glass
Newly established company dedicated to 'pub theatre by new writers' launches with two short plays in the Sunflower Bar
Quietly
Owen McCafferty expertly confronts themes of truth and reconciliation at the Lyric Theatre
Cure
Choreographer Fearghus Ó Conchúir imitates illness and the process of recovery at The MAC
Aida
Ellen Kent's traditionalist production of Verdi's masterpiece fails to set the pulses racing
The Nose
Patrick J O'Reilly adapts Nikolai Gogol's satirical short story with hilarious results at The MAC
One Sandwich Short of a Genius
Big Telly channel Dario Fo in this time-shifting play about familial woes
A Portrait of the Artist...
Dublin's New Theatre tour a stage adaptation of James Joyce's classic novel with mixed results
Alan Irwin
Winner of the 2014 Chortle Student Comedy Award at Queen's brings his Party Hard show to the Black Box
Nivelli's War
Hope and magic collide in Cahoots NI's latest inspirational production for audiences of all ages
The Wheelchair Monologues
Gearóid Ó Cairealláin's extraordinary story is told in Gaelic at Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich in Belfast
About a Goth
Staged Assault bring Tom Well's pithy play to the Black Box, chipped black nail varnish and all
Shrieking Sisters
Maggie Cronin and Carol Moore tell the story of Ireland's militant suffragettes
Handwritten
Old skool all-round entertainer Ryan Hand headlines a bizarre evening at the Black Box
Family Fever
McCracken Memorial Drama Society resurrect one of Sam Cree's 'downright silly' plays
All There Is
Fahy Productions and playwright Jonathan Bailie imagine a good deed gone horribly wrong
Macbeth
The golden age of Northern Irish opera continues with NI Opera's contemporary take on Verdi's dark masterpiece
Arrivals
The experiences of immigrants to Northern Ireland are succinctly expressed in five witty and hard-hitting plays
Brief Encounter
Wireless Mystery Theatre's most ambitious production to date is the perfect Valentine's Day treat
Fiddler on the Roof
The cast play the music in Craig Revel Horwood's inventive take on the famous musical
The Unremarkable Death of Marilyn Monroe
Writer Elton Townend Jones searches for new angles
Lost Illusions
Bolshoi Ballet 'evoke the flourish and romanticism of the Belle Époque' at Queen's Film Theatre
Stand Up Man
Playwright Derek Murphy explores the complicated life of the comedian at the Grand Opera House
The Bible (Abridged)
After a week of media chaos, the gathered masses took to the Theatre at the Mill to see the controversial play
The Colleen Bawn
The Druid production is an object lesson in how to successfully revivify plays to a modern audience
Burton's Last Call
George Telfer is the boozey, hell-raising, womanising actor Richard Burton at Out To Lunch
Terry Christian
Former presenter of The Word draws on Catholic upbringing with mixed results at Out To Lunch
Three Monologues
The Playhouse finish the City of Culture year with Jennifer Johnston's trio of powerful plays
Forget Turkey
Corruption and ignorance stalk the land in Murphy, Gordon and Mitchell's end of year review
A Particle of Dread
Field Day add Sam Shepard's Oedipus story to its impressive canon
Maire A Woman of Derry
Carmel McCafferty bids farewell to a favourite role
The Trouble with Harry
TheatreofplucK tell the story of Eugenia Falleni, an Australian transgender man convicted of murder
Crows on the Wire
Jonathan Burgess gives voice to those officers who felt betrayed by the reformation of the RUC
Cats
Andrew Lloyd Webber's feline fantasy based on a TS Eliot poem travels outside of London after 21 years at the top
Summertime
A victim of sexual abuse searches for answers in David Ireland's 'consistently watchable' new play
Made at Sadler's Wells
The iconic London dance studio bring 'a programme of short masterpieces' to the Grand Opera House
Brendan at the Chelsea
Adrian Dunbar is 'the monster at the centre of the maze' as Brendan Behan at the Lyric Theatre
From Macklin to Friel
Derry~Londonderry's Waterside Theatre celebrate actor and playwright Charles Macklin
Shane Todd
The Holywood comic brings his delusional alter ego Mike McGoldrick to the Black Box