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2013 Belfast Children's Festival Launches
View the full programme of events taking place in venues across the city from March 8-15 -
Pintsized Productions' Herons
The company dedicated to providing new opportunities for emerging actors adapt Simon Stephen's acclaimed play -
NI Opera's The Flying Dutchman
Singers Giselle Allen and Bruno Caproni front NI Opera's historic revival of Richard Wagner's epic opera. 'It's a thrill to be back' -
Maiden Voyage's Manifesto
Can a new three-act performance piece inspire more young men to take up contemporary dance? -
Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty
Before its Grand Opera House run beginning March 12, Jane Coyle travels to Sadler's Wells to experience a fairytale for the Twilight generation -
Rebecca Vaughan's Female Gothic
The playwright and actor's new one-woman show draws on the 'eerie, macabre and subtly terrifying' gothic literature of the 18th and 19th centuries -
Lyric Theatre: Tales of the City
Graham Reid pens a fifth instalment of the Billy plays for the Lyric's forthcoming season, which also features works by St John Irvine, David Ireland and Marie Jones -
Lennon v McCartney: Beatlemania at Out To Lunch
Playwright Stephen Kennedy on bringing a little bit of Beatlemania to the Out To Lunch festival in Belfast on January 17 -
Replay Babble About Theatre
Two new productions from Northern Ireland's theatre company dedicated to young audiences are set to light up the 2013 Belfast Children's Festival this March -
City of Culture 2013: Shona McCarthy's Highlights
After a spectacular opening ceremony on New Year's Eve, Culture Company chief executive Shona McCarthy looks forward to a year of events in Derry~Londonderry -
Sons & Daughters Concert to Open City of Culture
BBC NI to broadcast gala performance at The Venue as Derry~Londonderry's year as the first UK City of Culture begins -
A Christmas Night with George - Watch Video
Co-writing and starring in one of Northern Ireland's most successful plays has 'vindicated' Donna O'Connor after years spent 'out in the cold' -
View the Full Out To Lunch 2013 Festival Programme
Feeling peckish? Browse the full Out To Lunch 2013 festival programme and chow down on some seriously artistic lunchtime treats this coming January -
Field Day Return - Watch Video Featuring Founder Stephen Rea
Mark Phelan of Queen's University welcomes the return of the influential theatre company as it stages two new works in Derry~Londonderry -
Hansel and Grettel Go Large
Paul Boyd's retelling of the wonderfully dark Brothers Grimm-penned story is a 'fairytale for the iPod generation' at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast -
Penny Arcade Knows Too Much
The doyenne of the New York art house movement on sexual freedom, President Obama and performing at the Outburst Festival -
You're Ivan A Laugh - Ivan Little Does Panto
Ivan Little finally gives in to the inevitable – playing a dame in panto. But has he got the singing and dancing chops to pull it off at the Waterfront? -
Kenneth Branagh Knighted
The Belfast-born thespian receives honour at Buckingham Palace for his 'services to drama and the community in Northern Ireland' -
Beating Berlusconi
The story of one Liverpool fan's incredible experience of the 2005 Champions League final in Istanbul comes to the Belfast Festival -
Nicholas Nickleby at Dotheby's Hall
Sam McCready, master of the pared-down theatrical adaptation, brings Charles Dickens to the Belfast Festival -
Belfast Festival: Paisley & Me
After spending 30 years in LA as a successful screenwriter, Ron Hutchinson returns to home soil to explore the life of Baron Bannside -
Chicago Rolls Into Town
Stefan Booth and Ali Bastian on Strictly Come Dancing, Dancing on Ice and how the two shows helped them prepare for their iconic lead roles -
Martin McCann Comes Home
Having relocated to London, and starred in Hollywood blockbusters, the Belfast boy returns to the stage at the Grand Opera House -
Black Humour with David O'Doherty
The Dublin comic talks Belfast hecklers, heartache and honing his craft. 'Children's books warp your mind' -
Huzzies at The MAC
Rising stars of Northern Ireland's theatre and music scenes come together in new Tinderbox play, part of the Belfast Festival at Queen's -
The Odd Couple
Director and actor Guy Masterson on bringing Neil Simon's classic comedy to Theatre at the Mill in Newtownabbey -
Ogling Ardal O'Hanlon
Ahead of the Fermanagh Live festival, the Carrickmacross comic talks Irish audiences, Father Ted and why comedy is good for your health -
Clowning Around with Paul Currie
The inaugural Belly Laughs Comedy Festival in Belfast welcomes Northern Ireland's most adaptable performer -
Culture Night 2012
Watch video from Derry~Londonderry and Belfast and let us know how you celebrated the largest free arts event of the year -
Echo Echo Launch The Cove
Nature and performance collide in the latest collaboration between choreographer Steve Batts and climber Dan Shipsides -
Armagh Culture Night 2012
The historic city joins the party for the first time, with events in ice cream parlours, schools and the old gaol -
I Am My Own Wife at The MAC
Prime Cut tell the remarkable true story of German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who murdered her Nazi father, at The MAC -
Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival
A lantern parade through Belfast will signal the arrival of the autumnal moon on Thursday, September 27 -
Political Mother, Derry~Londonderry Uncut
Musicians and dancers encouraged to apply to join the cast of Hofesh Shechter's 'mind-blowing' dance piece for City of Culture 2013 -
Belfast Festival at Queen's Celebrates 50 Years
As the 2012 programme launches, Queen's graduate Seamus Heaney recalls his favourite festival moments -
Culture Night 2012
An 'expansive, colourful and inclusive' programme of events has been launched for Friday, September 21 -
Conall Morrison Directs The Playboy of the Western World
He won awards for The Crucible, now Morrison returns to the Lyric Theatre to direct JM Synge's best-loved play -
Arts & Disability Forum Bounce!
Northern Ireland’s first ever disability and deaf arts festival comes to venues across Belfast from August 24 - 31 -
Belfast Pride Parade 2012
Christians Enjoying Gay Pride and other revelers line the streets in Belfast to cheer on the floats and performers -
Noye's Fludde at Belfast Zoo
NI Opera stage Benjamin Britten's ark opera in Belfast Zoo as part of the London 2012 Festival
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