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Slimmer for Christmas
Leesa Harker updates Pride and Prejudice for the 80s generation -
Peter Corry is Home For Christmas
Singer returns to Belfast with a new album and festive variety show at the Waterfront Hall -
Mistletoe & Crime at the Lyric Theatre
Dan Gordon on directing Marie Jones' tale of PSNI officers caught up in Christmas chaos for the Lyric Theatre -
Jack and the Beanstalk
Terry Blain discovers that for all our technological advances nothing much changes in Pantoland -
Commedia of Errors at South Bank Playhouse
Benjamin Gould's new company brings subversive sensibility of Italian theatre to Irish epic The Tain -
An African Christmas at the Waterfront Hall
Having sung with Gary Barlow and for the Queen, the world famous African Children's Choir prepare to perform in Belfast -
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 -
An Evening with CS Lewis
David Payne's play is heavy on anecdote but light on the good stuff – the books -
Arts Council Launch #13pForTheArts Campaign
Public urged to sign petition and more to help stave off further funding cuts to the arts in Northern Ireland -
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 -
Outburst Queer Arts Festival
Ruth McCarthy revels in the transgressive nature of this year's diverse programme -
Tinderbox Bring Unhome to The MAC
Tinderbox Theatre Company bring Jimmy McAleavey's elusive psychological drama to The MAC -
Du Dance: Fallen
Intergenerational dance production recalls the experience of the First World War in Belfast and beyond -
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well
Blunt Fringe theatre company founder Claire Murray on coming home to produce ambitious stage shows on a budget -
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 -
Kabosh 20 at Belfast Festival
Artistic director Paula McFetridge on exploring the legacy of the 1994 ceasefire with performance piece and website -
The Autumn of Han
Red Dragonfly productions' first play of innovative three-year project set for NI tour -
More Than a Flag at Belfast Festival
Dan Gordon's world premiere exploring link between east Belfast and First World War -
Makaronik
Dave Duggan fuses English, Irish and invented language Emprish with sci-fi play at the Lyric Theatre -
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 -
Sive
JB Keane's 1956 play set in rural Ireland abounds with dark themes familiar to 21st century audiences -
#LightsOutNI Campaign Launches
Thomas Greene reports from a galvanising public meeting in the wake of arts funding cuts in Northern Ireland -
Anti-Poverty Festival
Organiser Anton Glackin hopes to raise awareness of poverty and homelessness in Northern Ireland with inaugural arts festival -
Sive Comes North
Abbey Theatre venture outside of Dublin to perform JB Keane's famous play in Derry and Belfast -
Accidental Theatre Get Fast & Loose at the Lyric
Accidental Theatre Company produce four new plays 'for the terminally impatient' in just 24 hours on October 4 -
Foil, Arms & Hog
Dublin-based trio perform a short but sweet set at the Belly Laughs Comedy Festival in Belfast -
Josef Locke – A Grand Adventure in Derry
Felicity McCall dramatises the life of controversial singer and Derry hero Josef Locke at the Playhouse -
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 -
Jesus, Mary and Joseph at Belly Laughs Festival
Belfast Paddy Mcdonnell on the therapy of live performance and confronting issues of intolerance in his new show -
Lyric Theatre Stage Stewart Parker's Pentecost
Jimmy Fay on the challenges of directing the classic play set during the Ulster Workers' Council Strike -
Culture Night Belfast
Jim Meredith plans a route through the myriad free arts events taking place in the Cathedral Quarter on September 19 -
Owen McCafferty New Lyric Writer in Residence
Acclaimed playwright is unveiled at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast ahead of an exciting new season -
Belfast Festival 2014 Programme Unveiled
Full festival programme is revealed, with disabled artist Claire Cunningham announced as artist-in-residence -
Beckett Trilogy
Lisa Dwan is ghostly and ghastly in this extraordinary production at The MAC -
Chatterbox Interpret Edward Lear in Little Jokes
The absurdist verse of the English author inspires a new family-friendly stage play coming to Belfast and Derry~Londonderry -
Punk Rock
A series of brilliant stage debuts transport Lyric Theatre audiences into the teenage heart of darkness -
EU Peace III Conference
Smashing Times Theatre Company work with Troubles survivors on real stories at The MAC on September 2 -
Pulling Michael's Legge
The London-based comic returns home to Northern Ireland for the Open House Bangor Festival on August 29 -
Bounce! Festival 2014
Arts and Disability Forum host their annual celebration of accessible art in the Lyric Theatre from August 28 – 31 -
Lisa Dwan's Beckett at The MAC
The Irish actor performs three of the playwright's most challenging plays in Belfast from September 2 -
Shot Glass: Part Deux
Theatre impresarios John Higgins and Joe Nawaz continue their cottage industry exploits at the Sunflower Bar -
Arts Funding Cuts Announced
In year cuts of 5% will affect 37 Arts Council clients in 2014/15, with wider cuts scheduled for next year -
Walled City Tattoo
Derry~Londonderry's shipbuilding heritage forms the basis of Yaron Engler's unorthodox introduction -
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 -
Rhys Dunlop in Punk Rock
The Lir graduate on exciting debut role in acclaimed production at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast -
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë's classical novel is adapted at Banbridge's Solitude Park -
A Step In Time
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum exhibition traces the history of Irish dancing at home and on the global stage -
Comedy Day Festival
Colin Geddis is ringmaster as the Crescent Arts Centre hosts a smorgasbord of Northern Irish comics -
Beckett in Border Country
Happy Days International Beckett Festival returns to Enniskillen with new connections and a wealth of events -
Skylight
National Theatre's star-studded current production to be streamed live into Queen's Film Theatre on August 3 -
The Acorn Fund Grantees Announced
Community and arts projects throughout Derry~Londonderry receive financial backing post-City of Culture