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Unboxing Olive Swanzy
Kabosh and Creative Centenaries unlock the history behind a First World War nurse from Newry in a new play inspired by lost artifacts -
Terra Nova Take On The Tempest
Artistic director Andrea Montgomery and actor James Doran on modernising the Shakespeare epic in a colossal new Belfast adaptation -
Emma Jordan: Prime Mover
With After Miss Julie premièring across Ireland, the ambitious theatre director opens up about the demands of the job, keeping things fresh and leading actors 'into the darkness' -
The Virgin Father
Jimmy McAleavey casts the stage lights back on one of the Bible's most overlooked figures in a new revival of his challenging, one-man play -
Celebrating Peter Quigley
NI's theatre community comes together this month to launch an archive of the much-missed actor/director's work at the Linen Hall Library -
Mi Mundo
The third instalment of Terra Nova's Arrivals project immerses audiences in the domestic hardships of the UK immigration system -
The Journey of The Suitcase
Jane Coyle on how an inconspicuous Jewish Museum artefact inspired her award-winning play, ahead of a special Holocaust Memorial performance at Belfast City Hall -
Artists with disabilities tackle Shakespeare and discover 'talents they never knew they had'
Open Arts CEO Eileen Branagh admits that A Midsummer Night's Dream was a 'frightening prospect' but the hard work of 65 individuals over two years has set the stage for a magical production at the MAC -
Stephen Rea returns to the MAC for Aeneid: Book VI
Actor Stephen Rea and musician Neil Martin; friends, collaborators, co-conspirators, makers of mischief -
Roisin Gallagher on hosting Abigail's Party in Belfast and being spurred on by her late father
Before his passing, the actress's dad raved about Mike Leigh's play and the prospect of his daughter as Beverly, and his 'incredible outlook' is what still gives her strength in her artistic pursuits -
Bruiser brings back Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole for theatre company's 20th birthday
Founder Lisa May on celebrating the late author after two decades of highs, lows, sleepless nights and moments that make it all worthwhile -
Angela's Ashes Comes to Life On-Stage at Grand Opera House
An interview with Belfast actor Marty Maguire who will be playing McCourt’s father, Malachy, in the musical take of this classic book -
The Enduring Resonance of A Time to Speak
Actress Joan McCready on continuing to deliver the message of Helen Lewis's Holocaust memoir, not just for her 'but for all victims and survivors' -
Children's Theatre: It's a Kind of Magic
Cahoots NI is conjuring up something special with its revival of Nivelli's War and the sense of wonder its bringing from Belfast to Broadway -
Taking Theatre Beyond the Border
Kabosh's latest post-conflict play explores the relationship of RUC and Garda patrol officers stationed on opposite sides of Ireland's dividing line -
The Pillowman
Martin McDonagh pits the lowly writer against a totalitarian system suspicious of creativity in his finest play to date, currently running in the Lyric Theatre in Belfast -
The Gift
Cahoots NI work with visually impaired children to create a tantalising sensory journey with the help of playwright Charles Way and composer Garth McConaghie -
The Imp
Having trained in Paris, physical performer Jude Quinn applies a European sensibility to his latest work confronting the events of January 7, 2015 and the Charlie Hebdo massacre -
God of Carnage
'We ignore issues of class, racism, sectarianism and bigotry at our perile' says Prime Cut Productions artistic director Emma Jordon -
Thank F*ck It's Christmas
Jude Quinn's one-man show sees Santa in mischievous mood -
Commedia of Errors at South Bank Playhouse
Benjamin Gould's new company brings subversive sensibility of Italian theatre to Irish epic The Tain -
Tinseltown
Paul Boyd pits belief against world-weary cynicism in what is sure to be a smash hit musical -
Family Hoffmann’s Christmas Palace
Cahoots NI salutes one of their most successful shows for children with a festive special at The MAC -
Tinderbox Bring Unhome to The MAC
Tinderbox Theatre Company bring Jimmy McAleavey's elusive psychological drama to The MAC -
Neither Either
Two of Ireland's finest companies are inspired by the work of poet Seamus Heaney -
The Autumn of Han
Red Dragonfly productions' first play of innovative three-year project set for NI tour -
An Enemy of the People at Belfast Festival
It caused a riot in Argentina – now Schaubühne Berlin brings its incendiary version of Ibsen's play to Belfast -
Bangor's Ghost
Rachel Coulter curates an evening of spooky song and storytelling at the Bangor Open House Festival -
Trilingual Play Bás Comes to Féile an Phobail
Schizothemia Theatre Company bring their First World War drama to Belfast in the year of centenaries from August 1 -
Fulcrum
Dylan Quinn reimagines Samuel Beckett's protest play Catastrophe -
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
European Arts Company dramatise the epic courtroom battle between the witty playwright and Edward Carson -
Flesh and Blood Women
Three plays written and produced by a female crew tell the story of Northern Ireland's better half -
Owen McCafferty Brings Quietly to the Lyric
The acclaimed playwright on the importance of reconciliation, the rise of racism and finally staging one of his finest plays in Belfast -
One Sandwich Short of a Genius
Big Telly channel Dario Fo in this time-shifting play about familial woes -
Nivelli's War
Hope and magic collide in Cahoots NI's latest inspirational production for audiences of all ages -
The Wheelchair Monologues
Gearóid Ó Cairealláin's extraordinary story is told in Gaelic at Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich in Belfast -
Quartet for 15 Chairs at Belfast Children's Festival
Maiden Voyage Dance welcome choreographer Enrique Cabrera to Belfast during Creativity Month -
All There Is
Fahy Productions and playwright Jonathan Bailie imagine a good deed gone horribly wrong -
Ballymena Modern Dance Festival
Five days of performance, participation and learning at Creativity Month 2014 -
Arrivals
The experiences of immigrants to Northern Ireland are succinctly expressed in five witty and hard-hitting plays
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