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Festival director Sean Kelly on making the arts accessible to all despite impending funding cuts
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Intergenerational dance production recalls the experience of the First World War in Belfast and beyond
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Arts and Disability Forum host their annual celebration of accessible art in the Lyric Theatre from August 28 – 31
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Theatre impresarios John Higgins and Joe Nawaz continue their cottage industry exploits at the Sunflower Bar
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Banbridge Musical Society adapt Stewart Love's short play as a musical, featuring popular songs from the era
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The singing group set Purcell's semi-opera in First World War territory for two performances in Belfast and Derry~Londonderry
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Du Dance and Royston Maldoom showcase their latest cross-community project at the Crescent Arts Centre
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Stephen Rea, co-founder of the legendary theatre company, on collaborating with 'American literary eminence' Sam Shepard for City of Culture
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The UK City of Culture welcomes the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptation of Shakespeare's epic poem
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New director Richard Wakely on this year's festival highlights and his hopes for the future
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Artistic director Oliver Mears maintains the company's forward momentum, beginning with L’Elisir d’Amore
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Richard Croxford and Mark Dougherty on adapting Jane Austen's novel for the Lyric Theatre stage
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The Dublin-based theatre company set up shop at the East Belfast Arts Festival
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Talent show competition winner Ben Forster is relishing his latest role in Richard O'Brien's gender-bending musical comedy
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The crime author and founder of Studio Theatre Company on their mysterious forthcoming production at The MAC
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Writer Graham Reid on penning Love, Billy for the Lyric Theatre, the absence of Sir Kenneth and the future for the Martin family
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Aisling Ghéar Theatre Company celebrates the little-known Ulster personality at the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival
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Director Will Chamberlain celebrates ten years of street theatre, silliness and abseiling in central Belfast
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Mark Chambers, director of Sestina vocal group, on fostering new talent and Henry Purcell's 'semi-opera'
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The former prizefighter comes home to Derry~Londonderry on April 8 to star in For Love at the Playhouse Theatre
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Playwrights Joe and Gerard Brennan recall the shebeen era in Belfast, when their Falls Road family sweet shop doubled up as a safe haven for affable drinkers
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Working with his director wife Joan on current production Dickens at the Ulster Hall is 'absolutely wonderful' for famed thespian Sam McCready
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'There will be blood, there will be thunderbolts, there will be Verdi's stirring music' when Ronald Samm arrives in Belfast on March 6
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Rosemary Jenkinson captures the zeitgeist with a timely new play about foodstuff. 'They could be giving you poison, as long as they make money
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Singers Giselle Allen and Bruno Caproni front NI Opera's historic revival of Richard Wagner's epic opera. 'It's a thrill to be back'
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Two new productions from Northern Ireland's theatre company dedicated to young audiences are set to light up the 2013 Belfast Children's Festival this March
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Paul Boyd's retelling of the wonderfully dark Brothers Grimm-penned story is a 'fairytale for the iPod generation' at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast
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Sam McCready, master of the pared-down theatrical adaptation, brings Charles Dickens to the Belfast Festival
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After spending 30 years in LA as a successful screenwriter, Ron Hutchinson returns to home soil to explore the life of Baron Bannside
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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
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Director and actor Guy Masterson on bringing Neil Simon's classic comedy to Theatre at the Mill in Newtownabbey
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Prime Cut tell the remarkable true story of German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who murdered her Nazi father, at The MAC
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Musicians and dancers encouraged to apply to join the cast of Hofesh Shechter's 'mind-blowing' dance piece for City of Culture 2013
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He won awards for The Crucible, now Morrison returns to the Lyric Theatre to direct JM Synge's best-loved play
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NI Opera stage Benjamin Britten's ark opera in Belfast Zoo as part of the London 2012 Festival
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Being diagnosed with cancer whilst pregnant could not disrupt the choreographer's creative process
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Jemima Brown and Brona Jackson make Hofesh Shechter's U.Dance troupe
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Artistic director Zoë Seaton's adaptation of the 'first ever horror novel' brings it back to its roots in Ireland
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NI Opera's fairy-tale opera brings witches, cannibalism and the economic crisis to the Grand Opera House
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Dance United NI prepare for their Belfast Festival show
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The artistic director of NI Opera on defying expectations, commissioning Rory Bremner and finding our next star