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Huzzies
Stacey Gregg's story of the rise and fall of a Belfast band is saved by Kerrie Quinn's bullish central performance -
Nicholas Nickleby at Dotheby's Hall
Sam McCready, master of the pared-down theatrical adaptation, brings Charles Dickens to the Belfast Festival -
Planetary Motions
Pianist Michael McHale and the Ulster Orchestra play Holst's masterpiece to launch the Belfast Festival at Queen's -
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 -
Clare Hammond
Pianist and artist-in-residence at Queen's University handles the masters with an 'unusually judicious approach' -
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 -
I Am My Own Wife
Prime Cut's retelling of the Charlotte von Mahlsdorf story is The MAC's 'finest achievement since launching' -
The Playboy of the Western World
Conall Morrison's 'constantly stimulating' take on JM Synge's play retains an anarchic edge -
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 -
Songs that Scare Children
Duke Special curates a week of events at the MAC, including this beguiling show by Dublin's Cathy Davey and friends -
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 -
Happy Days
Samuel Beckett would have approved of the programme of concerts at the Enniskillen festival in his honour -
larla Ó Lionáird
Master of the sean-nós singing style opens Féile An Droichead Irish language festival at the MAC -
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 -
Clandeboye Festival
Barry Douglas, virtuoso pianist and the 'force of nature' behind the festival, dazzles and beguiles the County Down crowd -
BBC Invitation Concert
Ulster Orchestra principle conductor JoAnn Falletta's 'lithe, supple interpretations' of American composers impress -
Emma Johnson
'The world's leading clarinettist' brings a touch of class to the Walled City Music Festival in Derry~Londonderry -
East Belfast Arts Festival Launches
Chair Maurice Kinkead on working with Féile an Phobail and attracting Van Morrison back home -
DRAG
'A notably serious examination not just of gay identity, but of identity, period' at Belfast Pride Festival -
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 -
NI Opera Shorts
NI Opera takes a major gamble with 5 debut works, but it – mostly – pays off at the MAC -
Holst Cotswolds Symphony
It's been five years since the Ulster Orchestra released a CD, this stirring, buoyant recording was worth the wait -
Oh Pioneer
Duke Special's new album is his 'most personal yet, an absorbing picture of the singer growing up in public' -
Susannah McCreight's Plants & Hopes
Being diagnosed with cancer whilst pregnant could not disrupt the choreographer's creative process -
Carducci String Quartet
Moving on Music programme an energising and enthusiastic evening of classical music at the MAC -
JACK Quartet
The MAC's inaugural classical concert by the New York string quartet is a 'stunning, world-class performance' -
Requiem for the Disappeared
Composer Conor Mitchell hopes his new work may offer some 'small comfort' to the families of the Disappeared -
Brahms Works for Solo Piano
Barry Douglas is 'in absolutely top form' in his first studio album for over a decade -
Praise Aloud the Trees
Brian Irvine gets the Cultural Olympiad started with a 'wondrous, occasionally frightening' take on Heaney's poem -
International Festival of Chamber Music
Technique to die for and sweeping rhapsody, the Belfast Music Society deliver their promise of 'world-class' performances -
NI Dancers to Perform at Cultural Olympiad
Jemima Brown and Brona Jackson make Hofesh Shechter's U.Dance troupe -
Melmoth the Wanderer with Big Telly
Artistic director Zoë Seaton's adaptation of the 'first ever horror novel' brings it back to its roots in Ireland -
David Lyttle's Urban Interlude
The jazz wunderkind's new album features hip-hop guests and himself on vocals – but he'll always beat the drum -
NI Opera Young Artists
Four Northern Irish soloists thrive in the intimate surroundings of the Black Box -
New Year Viennese Gala
The Ulster Orchestra recreate some of the 'zap and playfulness' of the original Strauss concerts -
Schola Cantorum Choir Reach New Heights
Guided by Nigel McClintock, the first full-time choirmaster employed by the Catholic Church in Ireland -
Arias in Advent
Soprano Rebekah Coffey is more than a match for Mozart's operatic output -
Schola Cantorum
A 'timely issue for the Christmas season' from Nigel McClintock's choir -
Satyagraha
A Sanskrit libretto, a cackling chorus and a 20 minute soliloquy 'Live in HD' is 'not better, but usefully different' -
NI Opera Get Tasty With Hansel and Gretel
NI Opera's fairy-tale opera brings witches, cannibalism and the economic crisis to the Grand Opera House -
Ragas and Reels
A meeting of East and West full of 'dreamy embellishments and flights of fancy' -
Belfast Music Society 90th Anniversary Season
The voluntary organisation keeps lovers of classical music enthralled -
Orpheus in the Underworld
Rory Bremner's new libretto brings Offenbach's satire bang up to date -
Hamlet
The thought of Hamlet in Lithuanian put some people off – but turned to be a Belfast Festival highlight -
Ulster Youth Choir, Actively Seeking Singers
Artistic Director Greg Beardsell wants to flip a choral music switch -
Philip Hammond's Fires Still Burn at 60
The composer is busier than ever, and happy with the 'total liberation' that retirement brings -
Festival of the Americas
JoAnn Faletta injects the Ulster Orchestra with a newfound rhythm -
Ulster Orchestra's Home Grown Talent
New audiences are seeking out a classical concert with their coffee -
Rising Star: Lynda Barrett
A career change, illness, gale-force winds – nothing can stop this soprano -
Piano Music by Philip Hammond
'Pianistic fireworks' and 'blues inflections' make this birthday celebration CD anything but dry -
Ulster Orchestra Launch
The Ulster Orchestra's new principal conductor's balletic style gives performances an exciting edge -
Newry Singer wins Chance to Duet with Kiri Te Kanawa
Ben McAteer wins the Northern Ireland Opera's inaugeral vocal competition -
Belfast Festival Goes Classical
From Kiri te Kanawa to Franz Liszt, this year's classical programme offers some mouth-watering prospects -
Mags Byrne Merges Dance and Social Commentary
Dance United NI prepare for their Belfast Festival show -
Trad Supergroup The Gloaming Hit Belfast
Listen to a track entitled 'Óró, Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile' and find out why the moniker is justified
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