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The Two Faces of January
Patricia Highsmith's tale of intrigue on the Med is stylishly adapted by Hossein Amini -
Fulcrum
Dylan Quinn reimagines Samuel Beckett's protest play Catastrophe -
The Blood of the Innocents
Robyn G Sheils' second album affirms his status as songwriter par excellence -
From Out of the City
John Kelly imagines a future Dublin lorded over by porn stars, dead presidents and not-so-starry skies -
Flesh and Blood Women
Three plays 'beautifully refract' off each other to show the changing experiences of women -
Writers on Writers
Poet Martin Mooney and playwright Martin Lynch discuss their influences at the Linen Hall Library -
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 -
Poets in the City
Poetry, music and the movies meet as One City One Book Belfast visits Movie House Cinemas -
Singin' in the Rain
Can the iconic musical movie transfer to the stage? Umbrellas at the ready at the Grand Opera House -
Ponies Don't Play Football
Pony Dance twerk The MAC audience into hysterics with their latest comedy production -
Rachel Ries
Sweet-voiced American songstress is ably supported by gravel-voiced Ciaran Lavery at No Alibis Bookstore -
Frank
Michael Fassbender plays the eponymous musical maverick in Lenny Abrahamson's touching tragicomedy -
The Handsome Family
Brett and Rennie Spark arrive in Belfast with the theme tune to HBO's True Detective -
Art of the Troubles
Jane Hardy considers the role of art in our understanding of man's inhumanity to man -
VerseChorusVerse
Singer-songwriter Tony Wright shows promise on debut solo album -
SOAK
Talented Derry chanteuse tops the bill at the Black Box with entertaining support from Lisa O'Neill -
Still
Community Arts Partnership publish 52 poems informed by the word and its various connotations -
How Many Miles to Babylon?
Adapted from the novel by Jennifer Johnston, this story of class, war and lost love is a marvel -
The Lost & Found Office
Jenny Cathcart visit Seamus Dunbar's immersive exhibition at the Higher Bridges Gallery -
April '14
Andrew Lemon reviews the latest tracks from PØRTS, Ryan Vail and Go Wolf -
King Arthur
Choral group Sestina adapt Henry Purcell's semi-opera with staggering results in Derry~Londonderry -
Sleeping Beauty
English Youth Ballet give 100 Northern Irish dancers the experience of a lifetime -
Defending Two Castles
Rabid Bitch of the North hark back to a heavier time with three-track gold cassette tape release -
The Sea
John Banville's Booker Prize-winning novel is beautifully shot in Stephen Brown's stunted adaptation -
Luke McGibbon
The Antrim comic completes an impressive debut solo stand up set at the Black Box -
Fabulous Beast
Choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan interprets Stravinksy in Belfast -
Dirty Dancin' in Le Shebeen
Leesa Harker's latest saucy stage adaptation is flaccid, but Maggie Muff dances on -
Shot Glass
Newly established company dedicated to 'pub theatre by new writers' launches with two short plays in the Sunflower Bar -
A Commemorative Reading
Poet laureates from across Britain gather at the Ulster Hall in appreciation of the late Nobel Prize winner, Seamus Heaney -
Chamber Choir Ireland
Paul Hillier conducts a new work by American composer David Lang at St Thomas's Church in Belfast -
Abstract Armature
Simon McWilliams focuses on Belfast's architectural rebirth in his first show in the city for two decades -
Stapleton & Rose
Oriental influences and unusual equipment enable a journey into the sonic unknown at the Sunflower -
Calvary
John Michael McDonagh trains his sights on the Catholic Church in an avaricious Ireland -
Quietly
Owen McCafferty expertly confronts themes of truth and reconciliation at the Lyric Theatre -
Cure
Choreographer Fearghus Ó Conchúir imitates illness and the process of recovery at The MAC -
Babochka
Multifarious objects and marvellous minutiae fill the Higher Bridges Gallery in Enniskillen in memory of the Chernobyl disaster -
Behind the Headlines
Veteran journalist Alf McCreary recalls a 'multi-faceted, constantly stimulating' career in print -
Words and Music
Belfast City Choir put poetry to song with an inventive Literary Lunchtime show at the Ulster Hall -
Shamus
Belfast Film Festival screen Eric Marquis' rarely-seen and decidedly quaint film shot in Belfast and beyond in 1958