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The Colleen Bawn
The Druid production is an object lesson in how to successfully revivify plays to a modern audience -
Lyric Theatre Appoint Executive Producer
Highly acclaimed director Jimmy Fay appointed to lead the theatre -
From Broadway to Bardic
Start your New Year with a musical bang at Bardic Theatre in the blockbuster feast ‘From Broadway to Bardic’ -
Meeting Ruairi Conaghan
The Ulster-born actor discusses his theatrical CV, from Downton Abbey to his latest performances at the Lyric Theatre -
Maiden Voyage in British Dance Edition
Belfast Dance Company selected to participate in the UK's biggest dance showcase -
FRAM! Two Men, One Suggestion, Zero Script
Introducing Northern Ireland's first and only Chicago style long-form improv group -
Burton's Last Call
George Telfer is the boozey, hell-raising, womanising actor Richard Burton at Out To Lunch -
The Bible: The Complete Word of God
Matt Rippy of the Reduced Shakespeare Company on touring their abridged production to Newtownabbey -
Terry Christian
Former presenter of The Word draws on Catholic upbringing with mixed results at Out To Lunch -
The Lir Casts Northward With Belfast Audition Workshop
The prestigious Dublin-based acting school sets up shop in the Lyric Theatre in Belfast on January 11 -
City of Culture Highlights
A selection of those involved in Derry~Londonderry's unforgettable year in the spotlight recall their most memorable moments -
Patrick J O'Reilly is Mr Panto
The actor, writer and performer brings lessons learnt in the Jacques Lecoq International School in Paris to The MAC and Waterfront Hall this Christmas -
Three Monologues
The Playhouse finish the City of Culture year with Jennifer Johnston's trio of powerful plays -
Forget Turkey
Corruption and ignorance stalk the land in Murphy, Gordon and Mitchell's end of year review -
Jeff Anderson Rocks The Music Box
The TV talent show graduate on life after Jesus Christ Superstar and performing at the Waterfront Hall this Christmas -
Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival
The week-long programme of events is given added weight following the death of Nelson Mandela -
Ian McElhinney's Titanic Game of Thrones
The actor welcomes a return to the stage to play Titanic kingpin William J Pirrie after wrapping season four of the HBO fantasy series -
Panto Season Upon Us
Martin Lynch, Gary Mitchell and John Linehan consider the enduring appeal of the Christmas show -
A Particle of Dread
Field Day add Sam Shepard's Oedipus story to its impressive canon -
Maire A Woman of Derry
Carmel McCafferty bids farewell to a favourite role -
The Trouble with Harry
TheatreofplucK tell the story of Eugenia Falleni, an Australian transgender man convicted of murder -
Crows on the Wire
Jonathan Burgess gives voice to those officers who felt betrayed by the reformation of the RUC -
Field Day Present A Particle of Dread
Stephen Rea, co-founder of the legendary theatre company, on collaborating with 'American literary eminence' Sam Shepard for City of Culture -
Cats
Andrew Lloyd Webber's feline fantasy based on a TS Eliot poem travels outside of London after 21 years at the top -
Outburst Queer Arts Festival
Director Ruth McCarthy on tackling issues and welcoming artists to Belfast from November 15-23 -
Summertime
A victim of sexual abuse searches for answers in David Ireland's 'consistently watchable' new play -
Made at Sadler's Wells
The iconic London dance studio bring 'a programme of short masterpieces' to the Grand Opera House -
English Youth Ballet Auditions
Prestigious company seeks 100 dancers to join cast of The Sleeping Beauty at the Grand Opera House -
William Kennedy Piping Festival Returns
Armagh welcomes some of the world's finest traditional musicians from November 14 – 17 -
Brendan at the Chelsea
Adrian Dunbar is 'the monster at the centre of the maze' as Brendan Behan at the Lyric Theatre -
From Macklin to Friel
Derry~Londonderry's Waterside Theatre celebrate actor and playwright Charles Macklin -
Adrian Dunbar Stars in Brendan at the Chelsea
The actor and director returns to the Lyric Theatre in Belfast following a successful run off Broadway -
Shane Todd
The Holywood comic brings his delusional alter ego Mike McGoldrick to the Black Box -
Duck, Death and the Tulip
Cahoots NI adapt Wolf Erlbruch's book aimed at changing young peoples' perception of death -
Halloween 2013 - What To Do
We choose this year's highlights, from events in the UK City of Culture to the Monster Mash at Titanic Slipways -
Teenage Kicks - A Punk Musical
Colin Bateman draws on his life-long love of punk in his first musical commissioned for UK City of Culture -
Nuala McKeever Climbs In the Window
The playwright and comedian brings her one-woman show about loneliness and burglary to the Lyric Theatre from October 29 -
Lorcan McGrane
King of the Geeks brings his Feral Man show to the Black Box, with support from Marcus Keeley -
The Rape of Lucrece in Derry~Londonderry
The UK City of Culture welcomes the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptation of Shakespeare's epic poem -
Departure Lounge
Pintsized Productions tackle Dougal Irvine's raunchy musical -
Sea Lavender
A gay love triangle unravels against the backdrop of the Siege of Derry in Andy Hinds' deft play -
Belfast Festival at Queen's
New director Richard Wakely on this year's festival highlights and his hopes for the future -
Pits and Perverts
Striking Welsh miners and the emergent gay community join forces under Thatcher -
Alone It Stands Tells Munster Rugby Story
Playwright John Breen tells the story of Munster rugby team's historic 1978 victory over the All Blacks at the Waterfront Hall -
Man in the Moon
Pearse Elliott's play set in west Belfast features a bravura performance from Ciaran Nolan as a man plagued by suicide -
NI Mental Health Arts & Film Festival
Director Kirsten Kearney on how a little idea blossomed into a big festival, which runs from October 10 – 13 -
Pun Run
Bec Hill's comedy concept evening arrives in the Black Box as the Belly Laughs Comedy Festival continues -
Pride and Prejudice
The Lyric Theatre's musical version of Jane Austen's novel is lengthy but beautifully delivered -
Seven 2 Ten Comedy Podcast
Christian Talbot searches for insight by interviewing comedians from north and south of the border -
I'm With the Band
This play about a band featuring an Englishman, Scotsman, Welshman and Northern Irishman is predictably dysfunctional -
Echo Echo Dance on the Derry~Londonderry Walls
The contemporary dance theatre company use the historic City Walls as the backdrop for their latest production, Without -
NI Opera Rising With Three New Productions
Artistic director Oliver Mears maintains the company's forward momentum, beginning with L’Elisir d’Amore -
The Conquest of Happiness
The human spirit triumphs in Prime Cut's 'spine-tingling' co-production in Derry~Londonderry -
Culture Night Lisburn
Lisburn gets in on the act with a range of free events taking place in Castle Gardens, R-Space Gallery and elsewhere -
Inheritance
Amanda Doherty's innovative one-woman play explores generational baggage on Derry~Londonderry's walls -
The Osmonds
Maureen Boyle is enticed by childhood memories, but leaves wishing 'they didn't have to do this anymore' -
Melmoth the Wanderer
Big Telly Theatre Company invoke Hell with masks, Fairy Liquid and a whole lot of laughs -
Meeting at Menin Gate
Victim becomes aggressor in a Belgium hotel room in Martin Lynch's 'vivid and harrowing' new play -
Pride and Prejudice: The Musical
Richard Croxford and Mark Dougherty on adapting Jane Austen's novel for the Lyric Theatre stage -
The Rocky Horror Show
Richard O'Brien's gender-bending musical arrives in Derry~Londonderry
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