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    Late Night Art Digest: August 2016

    John Higgins takes a tour of studios and spaces across Belfast to drink in some of the key exhibitions currently on display
  • Midsummer Main

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    The Royal Shakespeare Company recruit Belfast's Belvoir Players for a frothy but 'bags of fun' take on the timeless comedy
  • Here Comes the Night

    Here Comes the Night

    There's no time like the present as Rosemary Jenkinson's clever and well-acted culture comedy finds firmer footing in the more modern of its two narratives
  • Dylan Quinn TOST Review.

    TOST

    Dylan Quinn Dance Theatre's latest work is a vibrant essay on silence, exploring humanity's misfires in the age of mass communication
  • Gordon Osram Review Main

    Gordon Osràm's Funeral

    Though not always subtle, this interactive swan song is a multi-layered and undeniably fun piece of theatre which puts every inch of its surroundings to use
  • Beyond Maps Main

    Beyond Maps and Atlases

    Bertien Van Manen unearths the spectral beauty of rural Ireland in a collection of photographs offering something new with every viewing
  • Educating Rita 2

    Educating Rita

    Emma Jordan tactfully transposes Willy Russell's play to Belfast with help from two extraordinary leads in this fine start to the year for the Lyric Theatre
  • Opera Literature Lunch

    Opera, Literature and Lunch

    Out to Lunch continue to brighten the dark days of January with a no frills fix of book-based works from NI Opera's fabulous young artists
  • Fireworks Young Writers Programme

    Fireworks Young Writers Programme

    John Higgins takes an introductory look at Tinderbox Theatre Company's flagship developmental scheme for emerging playwrights
  • All through the house main

    All Through The House

    Though drawn out, a superb cast and an intricate plot help Judith King's festive farce break with tradition, making it the feel-good hit of the winter
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    This Place

    Felix Gonzalez-Torres' mournful works find a new context while encouraging public participation in The MAC's posthumous exhibition
  • The Kitchen 3

    The Kitchen

    Roysten Abel's hypnotic fusion of culinary and performance art is a sumptuous metaphor for human experience that will inflame the senses
  • Night Alive Main

    The Night Alive

    Minor character inconsistencies aside, Conor McPherson's play is a furiously paced hacky sack of humour full of exceptional stage performances
  • Lughnasa 1

    Dancing at Lughnasa

    The Lyric's first production of Friel's layered masterwork is as rich and rewarding as theatre gets
  • Earth to Alice

    Earth to Alice McCullough

    The spoken word artist on finding her way with the medium and how poetry keeps her grounded ahead of new one-woman show
  • Macha

    Macha Productions Empowers Women with Righteous Theatre

    John Higgins lifts the lid on former Kabosh writers Jo Egan and Fionnuala Kennedy's new joint venture, named after the ancient goddess of Armagh
  • The Goblin Market

    The Goblin Market

    Belfast-based collective Shadowtide Arts adapt Christina Rossetti's 19th century gothic poem to the screen with startling results
  • David Sedaris

    David Sedaris

    The celebrated American humorist delivers an evening of interlacing tales and outrageous material disguised in a performance akin to catching up with an old friend
  • Crazy

    Crazy

    Without enough plot or pizazz to sustain its run-time, Brenda Murphy's country-tinged comedy unravels despite fizzing performances from its cast of three
  • Clarkson Hammond May

    Clarkson, Hammond and May Live!

    Dazzling vehicular displays and topical 'bantz' from the former Top Gear trio can't help distract motor novice John Higgins from the feeling of watching 'Dave' in an ice rink
  • Leo Boyd

    The Prints of Things to Come

    Artist Leo Boyd predicts the fate of mankind in new retro-futurist graphic exhibition at the Belfast Print Workshop
  • Ulster Operatic Company Spamalot

    Giving Spamalot the full Monty at Belfast's Grand Opera House

    Rather than try to recreate the Pythons on Broadway, Neil Keery wants to ramp up the relentless musical theatre in his directing debut with the Ulster Operatic Company
  • R Space

    Watch This R-Space

    Co-director Robert Martin on how the personable Lisburn gallery came to be and carrying forward the city's linen-based legacy
  • The Reviewer

    In Defence of The Reviewer

    Art critics get a bad rap – here's why bringing informed opinions to the public is a tougher gig than most would imagine
  • Earnest Main

    Wilde Boys

    Bruiser and the MAC might be a match made in heaven on The Importance of Being Earnest, with an all-male cast looking at marriage through a modern lens
  • Jasmina Cibic

    MAC International Returns

    The biannual exhibition centered around Ireland's richest arts prize is back in Belfast, with Slovenia's Jasmina Cibic its newly-named winner
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    David Hockney: I draw, I do

    Ireland's first exhibition of the influential artist's work is a fascinating insight into his life-long consistency and passion for getting the world down on paper
  • Closer Composite

    Closer

    With its imaginative direction and competent cast, this modest adaptation has the charm to see past its lack of Hollywood gloss
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    The Draw of David Hockney

    Senior Curator at the MAC, Hugh Mulholland, on the enduring artist's widespread appeal and bringing his works to Belfast in a fascinating new exhibition
  • Gerard Dillon Ulster Museum

    Gerard Dillon: Painter, Dreamer, Clown

    The great Belfast artist's centenary retrospective will have you leaving the Ulster Museum with a spring in your step, expecting to fly
  • CQAF Theatre 2016

    Theatre at Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival

    Ambitious adaptations, fearless drama and a play packed into a Belfast bathroom; we sift through another sprawling array of events for the on-stage highlights
  • Belfast Christmas Market

    Belfast Christmas Market

    Culture NI sends its resident Scrooge to the grounds of City Hall to see if the seasonal staple is enough to get him in the holiday spirit
  • Christopher Lee

    Christopher Lee (1922 - 2015)

    Towering icon of cinema passes away aged 93, leaving an acting legacy more formidable than his best known roles
  • The Private View, Framewerk Gallery Belfast

    Arts Sector Etiquette: The Private View

    If you're lucky enough to be invited, and given access to the free booze, you should be aware of the dress code and the unusual art of Working the Room
  • I Am Here, David Holmes

    I Am Here

    David Holmes' directorial debut is a personal, poetic film born of bereavement following the death of his brother – watch the full film now
  • Donal Scullion

    Donal Scullion

    Though sonically on point, the folk singer's debut album is a game of two halves with middling lyricism revealing little of the artist himself
  • Superheroes

    Unsung Superheroes

    As DC's Suicide Squad arrive on the big screen, John Higgins makes a case for some of the lesser famed crime fighters deserving of the blockbuster treatment
  • David Bowie

    Lunch With Bowie

    Writers and musicians pay tribute to the divisive, chameleonic rock icon at the Ulster Hall's latest Literary Lunchtime event. 'He was the human equivalent of a Google search'
  • Lally the Scut

    Lally the Scut

    Abbie Spallen creates a local Hell for local people in this powerful, hilarious, gruelling satire on post-conflict Northern Ireland currently running in The MAC
  • The Belonging Project

    The Belonging Project

    Photographer Laurence Gibson's staged portraits of migrants living in Northern Ireland are full of humanity but frustratingly inaccessible to anyone without a smartphone
  • John Higgins

    'Culture NI Was My Lifeline'

    Critic John Higgins on how writing for Culture NI provided solace following a bereavement and indirectly led to the foundation of a now thriving fledgling theatre company
  • Brian Kielt

    Alternate State / Alternative States

    Poets Colin Dardis and Geraldine O'Kane interpret the work of artist Brian Kielt in an exciting and refreshingly challenging exhibition at the Duncairn Centre
  • Adam Laughlin

    Voicebox

    New comedy club in Belfast's Loft – artist's studio by day, platform for new comedy talent by night – is much more than a cheap and cheerful night out
  • Stitched Up

    Stitched Up

    When an NHS surgeon leaves a pair of scissors inside a patient, his moral compass spins out of control in Rosemary Jenkinson's excellent play at the Lyric Theatre
  • Death of a Comedian

    Death of a Comedian

    Owen McCafferty's Faustian play comments on the commercial corruption of art by focussing on one man's journey from gags to riches
  • Martina Devlin

    Martina Devlin

    Out To Lunch festival goers come out in force to hear the story of Ireland's final conviction for witchcraft
  • Agloe

    Agloe

    Sara Morrison creates a visual history of a dead town at the new Framewerk gallery
  • Christine Bovill

    Piaf

    Christine Bovill's emotional tribute to the famous French chanteuse leaves the Black Box in tears
  • An Evening with CS Lewis

    David Payne's play is heavy on anecdote but light on the good stuff – the books
  • 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'
  • Outburst Queer Arts Festival

    Ruth McCarthy revels in the transgressive nature of this year's diverse programme
  • New Book Tours Weird Belfast

    Reggie Chamberlain-King's new book, published by Blackstaff Press, is chock-a-block with odd adverts, sensational songs and all manner of ghosts
  • 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
  • Doppelgänger

    Peter Liversidge's Symbolist exhibition at The MAC is a psychosexual Where's Wally?
  • Pentecost

    Lyric Theatre's latest production is beautifully written, directed with brio and perfectly performed
  • Cabaret

    Cabaret

    Bruiser's confident, sassy and perfectly judged musical is a must see show at The MAC
  • Beckett Trilogy

    Lisa Dwan is ghostly and ghastly in this extraordinary production at The MAC
  • Wicker MAN

    A Fiend in the Furrows Folk Horror Conference

    Queen's University hosts three-day event exploring perspectives on folk horror in literature, film and music

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