88 stories by "Jane Coyle"
After weeks of waiting, the word is out " and it is deeply discouraging. Arts organisations across Northern Ireland have suffered stringent
Dion Boucicault's rowdy melodrama The Colleen Bawn is a disaster waiting to happen. It is a rambunctious whirlwind of a thing, in
It's all too much for one man to bear: the devastating loss of his wife in a domestic accident, the wordless sadness
Young at Art has been inspiring children in Northern Ireland and around the world for 20 years. Director Eibhlin de Barra tells
John is not just cracking up. He's falling apart. But why? He has a steady if humdrum job, a caring mother and a
For his debut production as artistic director of Northern Ireland Opera, Walter Sutcliffe has signalled his intention to broaden the company's scope
The Spectacular Aladdin is well named. Ireland has not seen its like before " an arena pantomime in a vast, wide open
Spare a thought for those valiant souls who staff A&E departments on Christmas Eve. Writers/actors Caroline Curran and Julie Maxwell have done
The plot begins in familiar territory. Out of the moonlight, a bright-faced boy in green flies through a bedroom window to the
The MAC's Hansel and Gretel is a virtual compendium of fairytale and fantasy characters: Three Little Pigs, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, Little
Christmas at Belfast's Lyric Theatre sees comic acting duo Conor Grimes and Alan McKee back in residence with a quartet of dim
The opera buffa Cosi Fan Tutte contains some of Mozart’s most glorious arias and orchestrations. Da Ponte's libretto, whose title translates as
Time was when the Belfast Festival at Queen's was the only show in town. Nowadays, Northern Ireland is awash with festivals, breathing
Audiences enter the Lyric's stripped-back studio space with open minds and leave with their brains and senses jangling. The Doppler Effect is
This year, Adrian Mole is 50 and Bruiser Theatre Company is 20. In recognition of these landmark birthdays and in tribute
It's a dark, windswept night in Leitrim, Ireland's most sparsely populated county " a night for gathering in the pub to sup
In the six years since Graham Linehan fixed his deliciously subversive gaze upon classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers, his fast and furious
Faith, family and land have long been the cornerstones of life across Ireland. Â Marie Jones' preferred dramatic setting is a working class
Mark Rothko famously painted very large pictures, and with good reason. As a Russian Jewish emigre to America in the early 1900s,
The serious intent behind this all-male version of The Importance of Being Earnest is a statement of the fact that Northern Ireland
Memories, real and imagined, provide the road map for this reflective, multi-faceted play about the way in which friendship and generosity can
Little about Margaret, Duchess of Argyll was in moderation. Beautiful, wealthy, flamboyant, sexually voracious, she was the epitome of upper class 1930s
I’ll Tell My Ma is a popular Belfast street song, an integral element in the folk history of a tight-knit community whose days
The Christmas show at Belfast's Waterfront Hall is a low-budget, value-for-money affair, and is all the more popular for those very reasons.Â
It takes a while to get going, thanks to a laborious rhyming prologue delivered front of stage by evergreen dame May McFettridge, this
