88 stories by "Jane Coyle"
With framing music by Tchaikovsky, a witty, original score and enchanting visual and narrative references to Carlo Collodi's 19th-century invention of the
Until the inauguration of Northern Ireland Opera in 2010, the region had experienced a sometimes fraught, inconsistent relationship with opera. Under artistic
In a professional career spanning almost four decades, Andy Hinds has spent most of it firmly entrenched behind the scenes. But in
Lyric Theatre, Belfast: "I've been Steve Johnston" - it's the classic stand-up pay-off line, but in Owen McCafferty's highly accomplished new play, it comes down to …
Lyric Theatre, Belfast: Over the years, Deborah Maguire has notched up many choreographer credits at the Lyric - for her directing debut, she has been gifted a script by Derek O'Connor,…
Grand Opera House, Belfast: A spirit of celebration pervades the press night of Aladdin, with a special presentation marking 25 years of unbroken appearances by Belfast's favourite dame…
Lyric Theatre, Belfast: It may be a truism, but when it comes to new writing, Belfast audiences know what they like and like what they know. They know Marie Jones very well and they like her…
Lyric Theatre, Belfast: Stewart Parker's final play deals with a society which, like its writer, was in the throes of terminal illness. Through its plain-speaking focus on the five occu…
Theatre at the Mill, Newtownabbey: His frame is slight and his shoulders slender, but Gerard McCarthy bears almost the entire weight of this dramatic revisiting of Bram Stoker's gothic …
MAC, Belfast: Sex, decadence and downright nastiness ooze from every pore of Lisa May's ambitious, high energy production of Kander and Ebb's sublime musical, which emanates from C…
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…
The 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…
The 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…
Lyric 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�…
Waterfront 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, …
The 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 …
The 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…
Author: 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…
Sean 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…
Lyric, 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…
Naughton Studio, Lyric Theatre, Belfast: One never approaches a play by David Ireland with the expectation of gingham and apple pie.
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Lyric 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. …
Lyric 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…
Grand 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 …
Lyric, 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 …
