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The Two Faces of January
Patricia Highsmith's tale of intrigue on the Med is stylishly adapted by Hossein Amini
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Fulcrum
Dylan Quinn reimagines Samuel Beckett's protest play Catastrophe
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The Blood of the Innocents
Robyn G Sheils' second album affirms his status as songwriter par excellence
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From Out of the City
John Kelly imagines a future Dublin lorded over by porn stars, dead presidents and not-so-starry skies
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Flesh and Blood Women
Three plays 'beautifully refract' off each other to show the changing experiences of women
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Writers on Writers
Poet Martin Mooney and playwright Martin Lynch discuss their influences at the Linen Hall Library
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Demented
Gary Mitchell serves up a new crime comedy at the Lyric Theatre
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Thirteen Steps
Patsy Durnin's sympathetic portrayal of the Derry Workhouse takes the audience back in time at The Playhouse
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Poets in the City
Poetry, music and the movies meet as One City One Book Belfast visits Movie House Cinemas
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Singin' in the Rain
Can the iconic musical movie transfer to the stage? Umbrellas at the ready at the Grand Opera House
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Ponies Don't Play Football
Pony Dance twerk The MAC audience into hysterics with their latest comedy production
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Rachel Ries
Sweet-voiced American songstress is ably supported by gravel-voiced Ciaran Lavery at No Alibis Bookstore
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Frank
Michael Fassbender plays the eponymous musical maverick in Lenny Abrahamson's touching tragicomedy
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The Handsome Family
Brett and Rennie Spark arrive in Belfast with the theme tune to HBO's True Detective
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Art of the Troubles
Jane Hardy considers the role of art in our understanding of man's inhumanity to man
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VerseChorusVerse
Singer-songwriter Tony Wright shows promise on debut solo album
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SOAK
Talented Derry chanteuse tops the bill at the Black Box with entertaining support from Lisa O'Neill
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Still
Community Arts Partnership publish 52 poems informed by the word and its various connotations
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How Many Miles to Babylon?
Adapted from the novel by Jennifer Johnston, this story of class, war and lost love is a marvel
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The Lost & Found Office
Jenny Cathcart visit Seamus Dunbar's immersive exhibition at the Higher Bridges Gallery
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April '14
Andrew Lemon reviews the latest tracks from PØRTS, Ryan Vail and Go Wolf
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King Arthur
Choral group Sestina adapt Henry Purcell's semi-opera with staggering results in Derry~Londonderry
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Sleeping Beauty
English Youth Ballet give 100 Northern Irish dancers the experience of a lifetime
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Defending Two Castles
Rabid Bitch of the North hark back to a heavier time with three-track gold cassette tape release
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The Sea
John Banville's Booker Prize-winning novel is beautifully shot in Stephen Brown's stunted adaptation
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Luke McGibbon
The Antrim comic completes an impressive debut solo stand up set at the Black Box
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Fabulous Beast
Choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan interprets Stravinksy in Belfast
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Dirty Dancin' in Le Shebeen
Leesa Harker's latest saucy stage adaptation is flaccid, but Maggie Muff dances on
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Shot Glass
Newly established company dedicated to 'pub theatre by new writers' launches with two short plays in the Sunflower Bar
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A Commemorative Reading
Poet laureates from across Britain gather at the Ulster Hall in appreciation of the late Nobel Prize winner, Seamus Heaney
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Chamber Choir Ireland
Paul Hillier conducts a new work by American composer David Lang at St Thomas's Church in Belfast
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Abstract Armature
Simon McWilliams focuses on Belfast's architectural rebirth in his first show in the city for two decades
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Stapleton & Rose
Oriental influences and unusual equipment enable a journey into the sonic unknown at the Sunflower
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Calvary
John Michael McDonagh trains his sights on the Catholic Church in an avaricious Ireland
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Quietly
Owen McCafferty expertly confronts themes of truth and reconciliation at the Lyric Theatre
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Cure
Choreographer Fearghus Ó Conchúir imitates illness and the process of recovery at The MAC
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Babochka
Multifarious objects and marvellous minutiae fill the Higher Bridges Gallery in Enniskillen in memory of the Chernobyl disaster
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Behind the Headlines
Veteran journalist Alf McCreary recalls a 'multi-faceted, constantly stimulating' career in print
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Words and Music
Belfast City Choir put poetry to song with an inventive Literary Lunchtime show at the Ulster Hall
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Shamus
Belfast Film Festival screen Eric Marquis' rarely-seen and decidedly quaint film shot in Belfast and beyond in 1958
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Aida
Ellen Kent's traditionalist production of Verdi's masterpiece fails to set the pulses racing
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Brilliant Corners
Moving on Music's four-day jazzfest is an eclectic musical marathon
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March '14
Andrew Lemon reviews the latest from Sullivan & Gold, The Wood Burning Savages and Malibu Shark Attack
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Game of Thrones Season Opener
Matthew Coyle reviews the opening episode of Game of Thrones season 4 at Belfast Film Festival – spoiler alert!
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The Nose
Patrick J O'Reilly adapts Nikolai Gogol's satirical short story with hilarious results at The MAC
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Kara Walker
Californian multi-disciplinary artist confronts American slave history with this endlessly inventive exhibition at The MAC
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One Sandwich Short of a Genius
Big Telly channel Dario Fo in this time-shifting play about familial woes
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Starred Up
Crumlin Road Gaol and the Maze provide the backdrop for David Mackenzie's brutally frank prison drama
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A Portrait of the Artist...
Dublin's New Theatre tour a stage adaptation of James Joyce's classic novel with mixed results
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Under the Skin
Scarlett Johansson becomes human under a Scottish sky in Jonathan Glazer's compelling adaptation
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Alan Irwin
Winner of the 2014 Chortle Student Comedy Award at Queen's brings his Party Hard show to the Black Box
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Eat Static
Merv Pepler keeps the psychedelic beats pumping at Voodoo after 25 years of dance floor destruction
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Nivelli's War
Hope and magic collide in Cahoots NI's latest inspirational production for audiences of all ages
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Dola
An 'astonishingly assured and ambitious' debut concept album by experimental duo Allez Bartoli
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The Wheelchair Monologues
Gearóid Ó Cairealláin's extraordinary story is told in Gaelic at Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich in Belfast
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson's latest all-star caper is a fantastically enjoyable yarn
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Night Music
An innovative presentation of classical music at The MAC proves popular
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About a Goth
Staged Assault bring Tom Well's pithy play to the Black Box, chipped black nail varnish and all
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The Glass Album
Contemporary artists respond to the 19th century documentary and forensic work of James Glass
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Shrieking Sisters
Maggie Cronin and Carol Moore tell the story of Ireland's militant suffragettes