Lyric Theatre, Belfast: A burst of spontaneous applause ten minutes into Act II speaks volumes for audience engagement, as fearful, humiliated genius Chadwick Meade (Rory Corcoran) rounds on…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMThe MAC, Belfast: In a bold, operatic presentation of Fermin Cabal's seven interlocking female monologues set in the darkness of Pinochet's Chile, director Sophie Motley shows ther…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMThe MAC, Belfast: The first segment of this Chilean trilogy consists of two plays, four female voices and a multitude of searing backward glances into the dark corners of a once-troubled cou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AMLyric Theatre, Belfast: To go or not to go? That is the question in <a href="http://www.lyrictheatre.co.uk/whats-on/specific/whats-on/philadelphia-here-i-come">Brian Friel…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMWaterfront Hall, Belfast: Kids love a baddie, and in contrast to the usual saccharine Christmas fare, PJ O'Reilly's Christmas show for the Waterfront Hall contains a big bad wolf, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AMThe MAC, Belfast: Hans Christian Andersen's sweetly moralistic story of the social outcast who blossoms into a thing of beauty has been given a major make-over by Patrick J O Reilly in …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AMThe MAC, Belfast: Peace and reconciliation, the scars of survival, truth commissions - these are the current political talking points in Northern Ireland, as society seeks to heal the pain o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMAuthor: Jane Austen (adapted by Richard Croxford, Mark Dougherty): "Aunt Jane began her day with music," wrote one of Jane Austen's nieces. Readers will acknowledge the writer…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMSean Doran talks to Jane Coyle about what festival goers can expect from this year’s Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival The island town of Enniskillen in the heart o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:11PMLyric, Belfast: "A do's not a do unless it's a to-do." In this new production of a piece, first written in 1989 as a short one-act play, these words are spoken in charact…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMNaughton Studio, Lyric Theatre, Belfast: One never approaches a play by David Ireland with the expectation of gingham and apple pie. Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMLyric Theatre, Belfast: He's back - 25 years after falling out with his sister Lorna, boarding a boat for England and disappearing, Billy Martin returns home to post-ceasefire Belfast. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AMLyric Theatre, Belfast: More than a century ago, socialist activist and Labour organiser James Larkin led a large-scale strike on the Belfast docks. This landmark event provides the framewor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMGrand Opera House, Belfast: Just when it seemed that it could get no bigger or glitzier, the Grand Opera House has upped the ante on a Cinderella, which is all about glitter and sparkle and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMLyric, Belfast: 'Misshapen elf steals show!' Thus might well read the headline for the Lyric's Christmas musical, in which Christina Nelson's mutely glowering servant to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AMBelfast Waterfront: Turning away from its tried and tested and hugely popular format, the Waterfront has gone out on a limb with something a little bit different this Christmas. Read the fu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PMMarket Place Theatre, Armagh: There is a rush of productivity in the court of His Bulginess King Cuthbert and Her Muddleheadedness Queen Amnesia. Four babies have been born - Fingers, Thumbs…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMThe MAC, Belfast: It began life as a storybook by Belfast artist and writer Oliver Jeffers. Anarchic, off-the-wall yet gently persuasive, his tale of a young boy who loves books is the perfe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMThe MAC, Belfast: Midway through 1891, burdened with two failed tragedies and a censored play, Oscar Wilde decided it was time to change tack and try his hand at satirical comedy. Lady Wind…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:33AMLyric, Belfast: The haunting publicity image is of three faceless women, swathed in plastic raincoats, standing in a gloomy underpass. And now we understand why. Lynne Parker's fascinat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMArdhowen Theatre, Enniskillen: Thunder crashes and rain teems down outside the meticulously ordered living quarters of Krapp, an elderly man who exists alongside memories of the past 30 year…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMLyric, Belfast: With its tongue lodged firmly in its cheek, Graham McLaren's effervescent new production plays fast and loose with Wilde's irony-laden subtitle, A Trivial Comedy fo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMLyric, Belfast: Stage plays do not frequently feature on Tim Loane's writing agenda. They tend to surface, neatly spaced, at five year intervals. His previous political satires took on …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMThe MAC, Belfast: The scale of the disaster was epic for its time. In a chilling roll call, Ian McElhinney's urbane clerk of the court (the only fictional character onstage) reels off t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:26PMLyric, Belfast: The centenary of the sinking of the Belfast-built ship of dreams is upon us and with it a raft of new writing about the iconic disaster that is Titanic. The year 1912 also sa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:55AMGrand Opera House, Belfast: Prime Cut is celebrating its 20th year at the cutting edge of independent theatre production with its debut on the main stage of the Belfast Grand Opera House. It…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AMLyric, Belfast : It's Russian and it's Irish. It's Chekov and it's Friel. The elision of two theatrical traditions, two national cultures, two masters of drama is so seam…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AMNaughton Studio, Lyric Theatre, Belfast: Over the years, the Chelsea Hotel in the heart of Manhattan has been both a retreat and a final destination for many famous artists and writers. Duri…
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