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Zombie Science
Are you prepared for the zombie apocalypse? Zombiologist Dr Ken Howe joins forces with the NI Science Festival to equip Northern Ireland for the inevitable -
Stitched Up
When an NHS surgeon leaves a pair of scissors inside a patient, his moral compass spins out of control in Rosemary Jenkinson's excellent play at the Lyric Theatre -
Death of a Comedian
Owen McCafferty's Faustian play comments on the commercial corruption of art by focussing on one man's journey from gags to riches -
God of Carnage
Prime Cut Productions' adaptation of the Yasmina Reza play is a breath of fresh air at The MAC in Belfast -
Salome
Strauss, Oscar Wilde and Northern Ireland Opera combine in a sexy, dangerous and accessible production at Belfast's Grand Opera House -
Thank F*ck It's Christmas
Jude Quinn's one-man show sees Santa in mischievous mood -
Slimmer for Christmas
Leesa Harker updates Pride and Prejudice for the 80s generation -
Jack and the Beanstalk
Terry Blain discovers that for all our technological advances nothing much changes in Pantoland -
Tinseltown
Paul Boyd pits belief against world-weary cynicism in what is sure to be a smash hit musical -
An Evening with CS Lewis
David Payne's play is heavy on anecdote but light on the good stuff – the books -
Unhome
Jim McAleavey's house of horrors bulges with invention and endless witty subversions at The MAC -
Jacques Brel is Alive...
Blunt Fringe reanimate the husky Belgian songwriter and 'matador of emotion' -
Damage
A suppressed emotion will do anything to survive in Patrick J O'Reilly's gay conversion therapy drama -
Neither Either
Two of Ireland's finest companies are inspired by the work of poet Seamus Heaney -
Female Gothic
Rebecca Vaughan's medley of classic ghoulish tales is a tricky treat at The MAC -
An Enemy of the People
Schaubühne Berlin get Belfast fired up for change -
Sive
JB Keane's 1956 play set in rural Ireland abounds with dark themes familiar to 21st century audiences -
Foil, Arms & Hog
Dublin-based trio perform a short but sweet set at the Belly Laughs Comedy Festival in Belfast -
Pentecost
Lyric Theatre's latest production is beautifully written, directed with brio and perfectly performed -
Jonathan Harker and Dracula
Gerard McCarthy plays a plethora of characters in Ulster Theatre Company's game adaptation -
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 -
Bangor's Ghost
Rachel Coulter curates an evening of spooky song and storytelling at the Bangor Open House Festival -
Brendel & Beckett
The Austrian pianist and poet is a witty if laconic conversationalist at the Happy Days festival -
Panti Bliss
Ireland's leading drag queen delivers the Amnesty International Pride Lecture at The MAC in Belfast -
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë's classical novel is adapted at Banbridge's Solitude Park -
Comedy Day Festival
Colin Geddis is ringmaster as the Crescent Arts Centre hosts a smorgasbord of Northern Irish comics -
Skylight
National Theatre's star-studded current production to be streamed live into Queen's Film Theatre on August 3 -
Little Jokes
Chatterbox Productions enter the weird world of Victorian renaissance man Edward Lear at The MAC -
The Tailor of Inverness
The extraordinary story of one intrepid Polish father, soldier, tailor arrives at the Lyric Theatre -
Septic Tiger
Pearse Elliott's latest work is an entertaining if unwieldy beast set in the border area of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland -
Suggs
Madness frontman turned touring raconteur recalls an extraordinary life well lived at the Ulster Hall -
Fulcrum
Dylan Quinn reimagines Samuel Beckett's protest play Catastrophe -
Flesh and Blood Women
Three plays 'beautifully refract' off each other to show the changing experiences of women -
Demented
Gary Mitchell serves up a new crime comedy at the Lyric Theatre -
Thirteen Steps
Patsy Durnin's sympathetic portrayal of the Derry Workhouse takes the audience back in time at The Playhouse -
How Many Miles to Babylon?
Adapted from the novel by Jennifer Johnston, this story of class, war and lost love is a marvel -
Sleeping Beauty
English Youth Ballet give 100 Northern Irish dancers the experience of a lifetime -
Luke McGibbon
The Antrim comic completes an impressive debut solo stand up set at the Black Box