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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Lughnasa 1

    Dancing at Lughnasa

    The Lyric's first production of Friel's layered masterwork is as rich and rewarding as theatre gets
  • 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
  • Closer Composite

    Closer

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

  • 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'

  • 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

  • Pentecost

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

  • Beckett Trilogy

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

  • Punk Rock

    A series of brilliant stage debuts transport Lyric Theatre audiences into the teenage heart of darkness

  • Reverend Billy

    American comedy preacher brings his anti-consumerist campaign to Belfast's Corn Market with choir in tow

  • Comedy Day Festival

    Colin Geddis is ringmaster as the Crescent Arts Centre hosts a smorgasbord of Northern Irish comics

  • Little Jokes

    Chatterbox Productions enter the weird world of Victorian renaissance man Edward Lear at The MAC

  • Demented

    Gary Mitchell serves up a new crime comedy at the Lyric Theatre

  • Alan Irwin

    Winner of the 2014 Chortle Student Comedy Award at Queen's brings his Party Hard show to the Black Box

  • About a Goth

    Staged Assault bring Tom Well's pithy play to the Black Box, chipped black nail varnish and all

  • Handwritten

    Old skool all-round entertainer Ryan Hand headlines a bizarre evening at the Black Box

  • Burton's Last Call

    George Telfer is the boozey, hell-raising, womanising actor Richard Burton at Out To Lunch

  • Forget Turkey

    Corruption and ignorance stalk the land in Murphy, Gordon and Mitchell's end of year review

  • Made at Sadler's Wells

    The iconic London dance studio bring 'a programme of short masterpieces' to the Grand Opera House

  • Brendan at the Chelsea

    Adrian Dunbar is 'the monster at the centre of the maze' as Brendan Behan at the Lyric Theatre

  • Shane Todd

    The Holywood comic brings his delusional alter ego Mike McGoldrick to the Black Box

  • Lorcan McGrane

    King of the Geeks brings his Feral Man show to the Black Box, with support from Marcus Keeley

  • 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

  • Pun Run

    Bec Hill's comedy concept evening arrives in the Black Box as the Belly Laughs Comedy Festival continues

  • Meeting at Menin Gate

    Victim becomes aggressor in a Belgium hotel room in Martin Lynch's 'vivid and harrowing' new play

  • Michael Legge

    With the Edinburgh Fringe on the horizon, Michael Legge hones his latest set, supported by Ruaidhrí Ward

  • After The Bell Jar

    Sylvia Plath's novel makes for a tricky play, but writer James Johnson's script is 'unblemished and blissful'

  • Love For Sale

    A Charles Bukowski short story is relocated to Belfast, where blow-up dolls remains taboo

  • Shakespeare's Sisters

    Fickle Favours' inaugural production gives new voice to the Bard's heroines

  • Rob Newman

    Much oil has flowed under the bridge, and into the hands of Western businessmen, since Rob Newman filled Wembley Stadium with David Baddiel

  • Paul Currie

    His comedy peers adore him, but what does John Higgins make of Belfast's most eclectic performer? 'Everyone prefers Cash to Czech!'

  • An Unseasonable Fall of Snow

    Galvinised Productions first foray into theatre has 'audience members audibly gasping'

  • Jimmy Cricket

    'The set is so slick and well-honed you almost forget the incredible craftsmanship.'

  • East Belfast Arts Festival

    An audience of 'middle-aged bohemians' make life hard for Matthew Collins, Lauren Kerr and Shane Todd at Belmont Tower

  • Bright Club Derry

    The 'academics versus comics' performance scenario doesn't necessarily travel that well

  • Edinburgh Fringe Preview

    Ruaidhrí Ward, Eleanor Tiernan and Michael Legge hone their skills at the Black Box

  • The Importance of Being Earnest

    Slapstick, Stevie Wonder and men playing women. The Lyric Theatre inject new life into Oscar Wilde's comic masterpiece

  • The Civilisation Game

    Sometimes the comedy in Tim Loane's comedy-thriller fails to thrill, but the attempts at drama are usually comical

  • 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

  • Maeve Higgins

    The Cork comedian 'has the razzle-dazzle of an alchemist', but lacks preparation where it matters

  • 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

  • Kevin McAleer

    The comedian's comedian tries his hand at the 'bear pit' that is The Empire Laughs Back

  • Cooking With Elvis

    'It’s like looking at the workings of a pocket-watch that is singing doo-wop and shifting furniture'