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  • Dickens at the Ulster Hall

    Sam McCready's one-man show recalls Charles Dickens's three visits to Belfast

  • Dave Allen - A Journey Through Life

    The play has the comedian's trademark props and unique delivery, but never quite his genius

  • The Civilisation Game

    Sometimes the comedy in Tim Loane's comedy-thriller fails to thrill, but the attempts at drama are usually comical

  • The Ulster Kama Sutra

    An hilarious exploration of 'the hypocrisy, the absurdity and the sexual immaturity' of our wee country

  • Darren Matthews

    The Newry comic is off to crack Oz, but Northern Ireland's comedy scene is strong enough to survive without him

  • Titanic (Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry, 1912)

    Owen McCafferty's verbatim play at the MAC is sleek, beautiful and finely-crafted, but perhaps a little cold

  • Legally Blonde the Musical

    A valid feminist message underlies this musical adaptation, but mostly it is about pink, puppies and pop songs  

  • Patrick Kielty

    Near-the-knuckle humour, celebrity girlfriends and the Titanic are what the comedian brings Home

  • A Better Boy

    John Wilson-Foster's play about Lord Pirrie and Titanic is 'as much a eulogy to industry' as anything

  • Titans

    Kabosh Theatre Company use Titanic Belfast as the set of their latest site-specific piece. It works

  • Michael Redmond

    Famous for a deadpan appearance Father Ted, the Dublin comic battles with an unresponsive Belfast audience

  • White Star of the North

    The Ulster Covenant, Home Rule and heliotherapy, but only a brief mention of an iceberg. The play is all the better for it

  • Mirthathon 2012

    100 comedians in 12 hours, and all for charity – it was a tall order for organiser Andrew Johnston

  • The Turn of the Screw

    NI Opera create a creepily atmospheric version of Britten's opera, with mad governesses, ghosts and shadows

  • 1912, A Hundred Years On

    27 short scenes telling the story of the Irish Home Rule Crisis of 1912

  • Shoot the Crow

    Owen McCafferty's play 'strikes afresh with recharged resonance in straitened times'

  • Bridget Christie

    The surrealist comic, daughter of Irish Catholic parents, on marrying a famous atheist and why bananas are funny

  • Simon Munnery

    The cerebral comic is always entertaining, whether singing about airships or making misogyny funny

  • Le Corsaire

    A sumptuous and seductive visit to the Barbary Coast by the famed Bolshoi Ballet

  • David O'Doherty

    Don't mistake the Dublin comic for Chris O'Dowd – he's likely to lampoon you in musical form

  • Carthaginians

    Fine Millennium Forum production of Frank McGuinness's enduring classic

  • Julius Caesar

    Rainbow Factory's contemporary adaptation of Julius Caesar has a lean and hungry look, Lisa Nelson approves 

  • Grease

    The 'teenagers' are a bit long in the tooth, but after 30 years this polished show proves Grease is still the word

  • Uncle Vanya

    Brian Friel's take on Chekhov's original is wilfully melancholic, but Conleth Hill's central performance makes this production great

  • Winston Returns to Paradise

    In 1912 'Belfast confetti' reigned down on Churchill here to argue for Home Rule. This 2012 commemoration is more civilised

  • William Caulfield

    The sharp-tongued comedian cuts out the middleman and heckles the audience

  • Fly Me to the Moon

    A 'world-class Northern Irish production' sees Marie Jones at the top of her game

  • Brothers in Arms

    Sam Millar's play explores the divide between 'pro- and anti-agreement republicanism'

  • Maeve Higgins

    The Cork comedian 'has the razzle-dazzle of an alchemist', but lacks preparation where it matters

  • Conal Gallen

    Ballybofey's finest gag man delivers a clean set to 'people with dirty minds'

  • Heroes With Their Hands in the Air

    A timely reworking of Fintan Brady's play on the 40th anniversary of Bloody Sunday

  • Hostel

    Homelessness, suicide and unexpected pregnancy. Somehow, playwright Fionnuala Kennedy shows the funny side

  • Josie Long

    The Tories are bad. Bankers are bad. You get the gist. Andrew Johnston is not impressed

  • Bob the Builder Live

    A star is born at the Waterfront Hall, and it's not the geezer with the hard hat. John Higgins is pleasantly surprised

  • Kevin McAleer

    The Tyrone comedian's use of slides and film is way out of date

  • The Nutcracker

    Streamed live from Russia, this Bolshoi Ballet version is 'gorgeous, just gorgeous'

  • Kevin McAleer

    The comedian's comedian tries his hand at the 'bear pit' that is The Empire Laughs Back

  • A Christmas Carol

    Wireless Mystery Theatre perform a period radio play of Dickens' beloved story

  • Jack and the Beanstalk

    May McFettridge rules the panto roost with plenty of gags and a costume Lady Gaga would envy

  • Down's But Not Out

    Raymond Murray's play shows how preconceptions have changed for the better since the 60s

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