Taking off: Belfast Festival shows signs of a revivalA lack of continuity at the top has hurt the festival in recent years, but new man Richard Wakely has made a good startTue Oct 22 2013 - 01:00
Do people from Northern Ireland have a right to be happy?A theatre production puts the audience up close to atrocities such as the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust and Bloody Sunday to pose questions about happiness in a ‘horrible world’Thu Oct 17 2013 - 01:00
One city, two great writersIn Belfast last weekend, the Lyric Theatre remembered Seamus Heaney while the Grand Opera House staged the Globe Theatre version of Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy: Harry the Sixth, The Houses of York and Lancaster, and The True Tragedy of the Duke of YorkSat Sept 07 2013 - 01:00
Five days in Beckett Town: the best and the boldest of the Happy Days festivalA huge number of productions and premieres were stuffed into the Enniskillen festival, many of them performed in intriguing locationsWed Aug 28 2013 - 01:00
Belfast’s mini-festival of miniature theatreThese bite-sized helpings give a sneak preview of an emerging wave of independent theatre makersThu Jun 13 2013 - 17:35
Girls on tourThirty years after its debut, Frank McGuinness’s play is back on the production lineThu May 09 2013 - 07:00
Whatever became of Kenneth Branagh’s Billy?Graham Reid’s Billy plays brought Belfast lives on to British screens in the 1980s. Now he is staging a sequelFri May 03 2013 - 07:00
Callow magicA fascinating and persuasive telling of the most popular story of the past 2,000 yearsThu Apr 11 2013 - 18:00
A northern light on Shakespeare's 'broken' monarchIN STRATFORD-Upon-Avon, he is the toast of the townFri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Lloyd Webber's lyrical princeWith his version of the classic children’s novel ‘The Little Prince’ now on in Belfast’s Lyric Theatre, Nicholas – son of Andrew…Wed Dec 07 2011 - 00:00
Guidelines for a Long and Happy LifeOld Victor Stationery Warehouse, Belfast FestivalFri Oct 21 2011 - 01:00
Belfast braced for annual arts extravaganzaAs the North’s biggest arts festival kicks off tomorrow, the outgoing director leaves centre stage to his successor, who will…Fri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
Kicking politics to touch with a home-ground advantageA different kind of drama will play out in Stormont this week, when the IFA helps bring a play about challenging prejudice through…Wed Feb 16 2011 - 00:00
National anthem of nowhereThrough his eclectic writing career, Colin Bateman has established a reputation for fearlessness and black humourFri Oct 15 2010 - 01:00
From the orchards of Armagh to a US dream factoryNorthern Irish director Paul Bosco McEneaney is taking part in the most magical adventure of his upwardly mobile career – seeing…Mon Jul 19 2010 - 01:00
Breathing life back into a great estateUntil recent times Clandeboye, one of Northern Ireland’s finest surviving estates, was in decline, but regeneration has brought…Sat Jul 17 2010 - 01:00
The MiserElmwood Hall, Belfast “You can’t trust banks!” bellows Moliere’s miserly anti-hero HarpagonFri May 07 2010 - 01:00
Drawn to Olympic heights by dramatic landscapesIt’s 60 years since painting featured in the Olympics, but artist Maurice Orr is among those commissioned by London 2012Mon May 03 2010 - 01:00
Performing post-conflict'Antigone' revolves around the notion of war and its aftermath - which makes it particularly relevant for the Belfast Festival…Fri Oct 17 2008 - 01:00
Down with this sort of thingArtScape: Feck. The kettle is on and the sandwiches are being made as the organisers gear up for Ted Fest '08, the follow-up…Sat Feb 02 2008 - 00:00
Redundancy fears at Belfast's Lyric TheatreThe staff at Belfast's Lyric Theatre are bracing themselves for possible redundancies.Tue Apr 26 2005 - 01:00
Earthquake Dance Waterfront Hall, BelfastThe Saturday evening triple-bill at Earthquake Dance, Northern Ireland's first festival of international dance, was a multi-cultural…Tue Mar 26 2002 - 00:00
The Sleeping BeautyAt last! A classical ballet that sits prettily and confidently at ease with itself in the great round arena of the Waterfront…Sat Dec 29 2001 - 00:00
Plucked and StuffedBroadcasters, agents and promoters in the North are constantly on the look-out for an elusive product, which they refer to as…Sat Dec 29 2001 - 00:00
Red Riding HoodEverybody knows the story of Little Red Riding Hood, don't they?Fri Dec 14 2001 - 00:00
AladdinThe fact that thousands of people started booking for this pantomime a year ago - and similar numbers are doing likewise for …Tue Dec 11 2001 - 00:00
The Theft of SitaThis enterprising Australian-Indonesian collaboration at the Belfast festival, telling the traditional tale of the beautiful …Sat Nov 10 2001 - 00:00
A Midsummer Night's DreamThink of any production you have ever seen, on stage or screen, of Shakespeare's lyrical romantic comedy and you will still be…Wed Nov 07 2001 - 00:00
Shopping and F***ingIn its bleak, ugly, lovely poetry and subversively moral amorality, Mark Ravenhill's multi-award winning play brings to mind …Sat Oct 06 2001 - 01:00
The Importance Of Being EarnestThe Lyric Theatre has climbed a mountain of well-catalogued difficulties and, thanks in no small measure to the sterling efforts…Mon Oct 01 2001 - 01:00
