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Annie McCartney Tackles Compensation Culture in Radio 4 Play
The author and playwright turns her sights on the NHS in Afternoon Drama slot -
A Better Boy
John Wilson-Foster's play about Lord Pirrie and Titanic is 'as much a eulogy to industry' as anything -
Titanic (Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry, 1912)
Owen McCafferty's verbatim play explores the reasons for Titanic's sinking -
Titans
Kabosh Theatre Company use Titanic Belfast as the set of their latest site-specific piece. It works -
Michael Redmond
Famous for a deadpan appearance Father Ted, the Dublin comic battles with an unresponsive Belfast audience -
13th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival Launches
One of Northern Ireland's best-loved arts festivals reaches its teens -
Amateur Theatre Company to Perform at Stratford-Upon-Avon
Will it be Julius Caesar in the Shankill or Shakespeare on the Titanic at the World Shakespeare Festival? -
White Star of the North
The Ulster Covenant, Home Rule and heliotherapy, but only a brief mention of an iceberg. The play is all the better for it -
Mirthathon 2012
100 comedians in 12 hours, and all for charity – it was a tall order for organiser Andrew Johnston -
The Turn of the Screw
NI Opera create a creepily atmospheric version of Britten's opera, with mad governesses, ghosts and shadows -
1912, A Hundred Years On
27 short scenes telling the story of the Irish Home Rule Crisis of 1912 -
2012 Festival of Fools - From Nudity to Nerdity
Director Will Chamberlain has taken Belfast street theatre from the gutter to the globe -
Shoot the Crow
Owen McCafferty's play 'strikes afresh with recharged resonance in straitened times' -
Bridget Christie
The surrealist comic, daughter of Irish Catholic parents, on marrying a famous atheist and why bananas are funny -
Simon Munnery
The cerebral comic is always entertaining, whether singing about airships or making misogyny funny -
Le Corsaire
A sumptuous and seductive visit to the Barbary Coast by the famed Bolshoi Ballet -
David O'Doherty
Don't mistake the Dublin comic for Chris O'Dowd – he's likely to lampoon you in musical form -
White Star of the North Rises
Rosemary Jenkinson trades contemporary Belfast for the Titanic era in a new play for the Lyric Theatre -
Carthaginians
Fine Millennium Forum production of Frank McGuinness's enduring classic -
Julius Caesar
Rainbow Factory's contemporary adaptation of Julius Caesar has a lean and hungry look, Lisa Nelson approves -
Obituary: Frank Carson
Belfast-born comedy legend passes away aged 85 -
Belfast Children's Festival Returns
For director Ali Fitzgibbon the important thing is to take kids seriously and always steer clear of panto -
Grease
The 'teenagers' are a bit long in the tooth, but after 30 years this polished show proves Grease is still the word -
Adrian Dunbar Brings Carthage to Derry
The actor turned director tackles Frank McGuinness's play about 'gender, politics' and Bloody Sunday -
Owen McCafferty Shoots the Breeze
The Belfast playwright embraces verbatim theatre, and has harsh words for 'those who play the political percentages' -
Uncle Vanya
Brian Friel's take on Chekhov's original is wilfully melancholic, but Conleth Hill's central performance makes this production great -
Mary Byrne Tours with Grease
The X-Factor star on how she's no beauty school drop-out after fame hit like greased lightning -
NI Dancers to Perform at Cultural Olympiad
Jemima Brown and Brona Jackson make Hofesh Shechter's U.Dance troupe -
Winston Returns to Paradise
In 1912 'Belfast confetti' reigned down on Churchill here to argue for Home Rule. This 2012 commemoration is more civilised -
William Caulfield
The sharp-tongued comedian cuts out the middleman and heckles the audience -
Lisa Keogh Reimagines Moby-Dick
The story that Herman Melville left untold comes to life at the Ulster Hall -
Lyric Theatre Commemorate White Star of the North
New Titanic play by Rosemary Jenkinson tells story of Belfast family torn asunder -
Fly Me to the Moon
A 'world-class Northern Irish production' sees Marie Jones at the top of her game -
Brothers in Arms
Sam Millar's play explores the divide between 'pro- and anti-agreement republicanism' -
Maeve Higgins
The Cork comedian 'has the razzle-dazzle of an alchemist', but lacks preparation where it matters -
Conal Gallen
Ballybofey's finest gag man delivers a clean set to 'people with dirty minds' -
Heroes With Their Hands in the Air
A timely reworking of Fintan Brady's play on the 40th anniversary of Bloody Sunday -
Euthanasia Explored in An Instinct for Kindness
Chris Larner helped his ex-wife to commit suicide in Switzerland. Writing a play about the experience was his way of coping -
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 -
Live-Action Radio Drama on the Titanic
Wireless Mystery Theatre test the boundaries of audio-theatre with an original production on the Titanic -
Hostel
Homelessness, suicide and unexpected pregnancy. Somehow, playwright Fionnuala Kennedy shows the funny side -
Josie Long
The Tories are bad. Bankers are bad. You get the gist. Andrew Johnston is not impressed -
Sam Millar on New Play Brothers in Arms
Belfast crime novelist and former republican prisoner on his new play about 'the elephant in the room' – the dissidents -
ISLAND Arts Centre Programme - Watch Video
Una Casement introduces highlights in theatre, comedy, music, visual arts and film -
Bob the Builder Live
A star is born at the Waterfront Hall, and it's not the geezer with the hard hat. John Higgins is pleasantly surprised -
Fly Me to the Moon
Playwright Marie Jones on her new play 'about desperate people in desperate situations' -
Breton Dance Comes to Belfast
Us Celts love a good shindig. Jane Coyle explores our French connection at Madden's Bar -
Kevin McAleer
The Tyrone comedian's use of slides and film is way out of date -
Roy Walker, the Enduring Conundrum
Belfast-born comedian comes home for the Out To Lunch Festival -
My Cultural Life: Santa Claus
It's business as usual for the man in red. A touch of Wagner is as cultural as he gets -
The Nutcracker
Streamed live from Russia, this Bolshoi Ballet version is 'gorgeous, just gorgeous' -
Kevin McAleer
The comedian's comedian tries his hand at the 'bear pit' that is The Empire Laughs Back -
A Christmas Carol
Wireless Mystery Theatre perform a period radio play of Dickens' beloved story -
Comedy Gets Intellectual at Bright Club Belfast
The future of comedy in Belfast is Bright, informed and surprisingly academic -
Dear Santa Brings Burlesque to the Lyric Theatre
Burlesque artist Rosie McClelland on 'circus, cabaret and corsets' this Christmas -
Nuala McKeever Gets Festive With Carol's Christmas
Is it a panto? Oh no it isn't! Listen to extracts from rehearsals -
Jack and the Beanstalk
May McFettridge rules the panto roost with plenty of gags and a costume Lady Gaga would envy -
Down's But Not Out
Raymond Murray's play shows how preconceptions have changed for the better since the 60s -
Hello Ladies
Stephen Merchant steps out of Ricky Gervais's shadow with an 'assured and concise' set of his own -
The Little Prince
A flight of fancy on a paper airplane, but they haven't got all the rough edges off yet
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