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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 -
Hidden Agenda
Subversion and irony abound in works from the Crafts Council collection by Grayson Perry and others -
Comedy Day Festival
Colin Geddis is ringmaster as the Crescent Arts Centre hosts a smorgasbord of Northern Irish comics -
Rhinos
Hard-rocking duo Paul Currie and Laura Totten keep smiling despite a disappointing turnout at the Oh Yeah Music Centre -
Little Jokes
Chatterbox Productions enter the weird world of Victorian renaissance man Edward Lear at The MAC -
Jonathan Meades
The inimitable architecture and food critic revels in language and sardonic wit at the Crescent Arts Centre -
NI Night
Former fabric designer Kevin Collins paints a 'delicate and luminous' version of Northern Ireland under the stars -
Jimmy's Hall
What was supposed to be Ken Loach's final film – an overly theatrical adaptation of the play by Donal O'Kelly – is no great legacy -
Curious Beasts
John Higgins visits the Ulster Museum as an unusual collection from the British Museum packs up for Hull -
Demented
Gary Mitchell serves up a new crime comedy at the Lyric Theatre -
Ponies Don't Play Football
Pony Dance twerk The MAC audience into hysterics with their latest comedy production -
VerseChorusVerse
Singer-songwriter Tony Wright shows promise on debut solo album -
The Sea
John Banville's Booker Prize-winning novel is beautifully shot in Stephen Brown's stunted adaptation -
Shamus
Belfast Film Festival screen Eric Marquis' rarely-seen and decidedly quaint film shot in Belfast and beyond in 1958 -
Under the Skin
Scarlett Johansson becomes human under a Scottish sky in Jonathan Glazer's compelling adaptation -
Alan Irwin
Winner of the 2014 Chortle Student Comedy Award at Queen's brings his Party Hard show to the Black Box -
Dola
An 'astonishingly assured and ambitious' debut concept album by experimental duo Allez Bartoli -
About a Goth
Staged Assault bring Tom Well's pithy play to the Black Box, chipped black nail varnish and all -
Handwritten
Old skool all-round entertainer Ryan Hand headlines a bizarre evening at the Black Box -
Hello Belfast
The John Hewitt hosts Clinton Kirkpatrick's bold vision of the city as a particoloured land of giants -
Edna O'Brien
The famous fiery red head novelist speaks of her memoir 'Country Girl' and the outcry caused by the epochal ‘The Country Girls’ -
Burton's Last Call
George Telfer is the boozey, hell-raising, womanising actor Richard Burton at Out To Lunch -
Forget Turkey
Corruption and ignorance stalk the land in Murphy, Gordon and Mitchell's end of year review -
Celebrate the City
Three of Belfast's finest writers pay tribute to the legacy of CS Lewis -
Collective Histories
20 years of work produced under the Catalyst Arts banner is showcased at the Golden Thread Gallery -
Alasdair Roberts
The Scottish collector of otherworldly songs delivers a compelling performance on the Belfast Barge -
The Polaris Whisper
Kenneth Gregory's debut fantasy novel leaves John Higgins desperate for the next two volumes -
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 -
Shane Todd
The Holywood comic brings his delusional alter ego Mike McGoldrick to the Black Box -
Lorcan McGrane
King of the Geeks brings his Feral Man show to the Black Box, with support from Marcus Keeley -
REACT
John Higgins joins the 'reactors' at an open discussion on the 2013 Turner Prize nominees -
Man in the Moon
Pearse Elliott's play set in west Belfast features a bravura performance from Ciaran Nolan as a man plagued by suicide -
Pun Run
Bec Hill's comedy concept evening arrives in the Black Box as the Belly Laughs Comedy Festival continues -
Meeting at Menin Gate
Victim becomes aggressor in a Belgium hotel room in Martin Lynch's 'vivid and harrowing' new play -
Art in the Eastside
John Higgins buys an expensive bus ticket to explore the billboards of east Belfast -
Testing Times
The latest ironic offering from Belfast band War Hole is a thing 'of rare and affecting beauty' -
Alpha Papa
Alan Partridge finally makes it to the silver screen after 20 years of network nightmares – welcome to big school