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National Youth Orchestra Play Belfast and Derry~Londonderry
One of the UK's most prestigious orchestras begin ten-day residency in the City of Culture -
The MAC Hosts Not So Trad Concert Series
Celtic funk maestros The Olllman kickstart Eamon Murray's experimental concert series at The MAC -
Brian Irvine's Beyond the March Set for Music City!
Composer Brian Irvine and jazz musician Sid Peacock enlist flute bands for Music City! concert in Derry~Londonderry -
The Real Catriona King
The crime author and founder of Studio Theatre Company on their mysterious forthcoming production at The MAC -
The Billy Plays Continue
Writer Graham Reid on penning Love, Billy for the Lyric Theatre, the absence of Sir Kenneth and the future for the Martin family -
Aisling Ghéar's Search for Robert McAdam
Aisling Ghéar Theatre Company celebrates the little-known Ulster personality at the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival -
Festival of Fools 2013
Director Will Chamberlain celebrates ten years of street theatre, silliness and abseiling in central Belfast -
The Artist's Overcoat Sculpture Exhibition Opens in Banbridge
The FE McWilliam Gallery in Banbridge showcases lesser-seen and unfinished work by the renowned surrealist -
Vocal Group Sestina Adapt The Fairy Queen
Mark Chambers, director of Sestina vocal group, on fostering new talent and Henry Purcell's 'semi-opera' -
John Duddy Boxes Clever for City of Culture
The former prizefighter comes home to Derry~Londonderry on April 8 to star in For Love at the Playhouse Theatre -
The Sweety Bottle Comes to the Grand Opera House
Playwrights Joe and Gerard Brennan recall the shebeen era in Belfast, when their Falls Road family sweet shop doubled up as a safe haven for affable drinkers -
Ulster Orchestra Celebrate St Patrick's Day in Armagh
A ten-day festival culminates on Monday, March 18 with a concert by the Ulster Orchestra at St Patrick's Cathedral -
Dickens at the Ulster Hall – Meet the McCreadys
Working with his director wife Joan on current production Dickens at the Ulster Hall is 'absolutely wonderful' for famed thespian Sam McCready -
Baker Scores Joan of Arc
Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral will improvise a new soundtrack to Carl Theodor Dreyer's classic silent film in the Ulster Hall on March 12 -
Opera North's Otello Comes to Belfast
'There will be blood, there will be thunderbolts, there will be Verdi's stirring music' when Ronald Samm arrives in Belfast on March 6 -
Kim Vaughan, Quercus Ensemble
The classically trained cellist on learning her craft in Derry~Londonderry and performing a Roald Dahl classic for City of Culture -
Planet Belfast at The MAC
Rosemary Jenkinson captures the zeitgeist with a timely new play about foodstuff. 'They could be giving you poison, as long as they make money -
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' -
Andy Warhol at The MAC
A major retrospective of the iconic pop artist's work comes to Belfast from February 8 to April 28. 'If he were here today, he'd definitely be tweeting!' -
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 -
Eamon Murray, Bodhrán Boy
Having been chosen to represent Northern Ireland in the New Music Plus project, the Randalstown percussionist considers the popularity of trad -
Neil Cowley, Musician in Residence for City of Culture
Neil Cowley, Musician in Residence for UK City of Culture 2013, on researching Derry~Londonderry, working with Adele and his biggest challenge to date -
Carrickfergus Grammar School Feature on RTE Album
Carrickfergus Grammar School feature on Choirs for Christmas. Meet Edward Craig, the musical director behind their success -
Dame Gillian Weir Farewell Concert
After a long and fruitful career at the keys, the grand dame of organ music bows out of live performance with one last fling at the Ulster Hall -
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 -
John Wilson Orchestra to Close Belfast Festival
They've sold out venues across the UK playing classics from MGM musicals, now it's time for the Waterfront Hall and 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 -
Michael McHale Goes it Alone
It's set to be a huge year for the Belfast pianist. He talks Belfast Festival at Queen's, Sir James Galway and new album The Irish Piano -
The Odd Couple
Director and actor Guy Masterson on bringing Neil Simon's classic comedy to Theatre at the Mill in Newtownabbey -
Christus at the Ulster Hall
Australian pianist Tristan Russcher prepares to perform one of the longest and most challenging classical compositions ever written on the Mulholland Organ -
The Third Policeman Comes to Bangor
Belfast composer Colin Reid scores Flann O'Brien's surreal masterpiece. Listen to an extract narrated by Stephen Rea -
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 -
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 -
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 -
East Belfast Arts Festival Launches
Chair Maurice Kinkead on working with Féile an Phobail and attracting Van Morrison back home -
Noye's Fludde at Belfast Zoo
NI Opera stage Benjamin Britten's ark opera in Belfast Zoo as part of the London 2012 Festival -
Duke Special, Musical Pioneer
Musicals, silent cinema and soul searching. Following a busy few years, Peter Wilson goes back to basics with his latest album -
Susannah McCreight's Plants & Hopes
Being diagnosed with cancer whilst pregnant could not disrupt the choreographer's creative process
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