Friday, February 2, 2018
For his debut production as artistic director of Northern Ireland Opera, Walter Sutcliffe has signalled his intention to broaden the company’s scope
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The Spectacular Aladdin is well named. Ireland has not seen its like before – an arena pantomime in a vast, wide open
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Spare a thought for those valiant souls who staff A&E departments on Christmas Eve. Writers/actors Caroline Curran and Julie Maxwell have done
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The plot begins in familiar territory. Out of the moonlight, a bright-faced boy in green flies through a bedroom window to the
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The MAC’s Hansel and Gretel is a virtual compendium of fairytale and fantasy characters: Three Little Pigs, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, Little
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Christmas at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre sees comic acting duo Conor Grimes and Alan McKee back in residence with a quartet of dim
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The opera buffa Cosi Fan Tutte contains some of Mozart’s most glorious arias and orchestrations. Da Ponte’s libretto, whose title translates as
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Time was when the Belfast Festival at Queen’s was the only show in town. Nowadays, Northern Ireland is awash with festivals, breathing
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Audiences enter the Lyric’s stripped-back studio space with open minds and leave with their brains and senses jangling. The Doppler Effect is
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This year, Adrian Mole is 50 and Bruiser Theatre Company is 20. In recognition of these landmark birthdays and in tribute
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It’s a dark, windswept night in Leitrim, Ireland’s most sparsely populated county – a night for gathering in the pub to sup
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In the six years since Graham Linehan fixed his deliciously subversive gaze upon classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers, his fast and furious
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Faith, family and land have long been the cornerstones of life across Ireland. Marie Jones’ preferred dramatic setting is a working class
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AMWednesday, April 12, 2017
Mark Rothko famously painted very large pictures, and with good reason. As a Russian Jewish emigre to America in the early 1900s,
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The serious intent behind this all-male version of The Importance of Being Earnest is a statement of the fact that Northern Ireland
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Memories, real and imagined, provide the road map for this reflective, multi-faceted play about the way in which friendship and generosity can
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Little about Margaret, Duchess of Argyll was in moderation. Beautiful, wealthy, flamboyant, sexually voracious, she was the epitome of upper class 1930s
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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
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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.
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It takes a while to get going, thanks to a laborious rhyming prologue delivered front of stage by evergreen dame May McFettridge, this
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:40AMWith framing music by Tchaikovsky, a witty, original score and enchanting visual and narrative references to Carlo Collodi’s 19th-century invention of the
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Until the inauguration of Northern Ireland Opera in 2010, the region had experienced a sometimes fraught, inconsistent relationship with opera. Under artistic
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In a professional career spanning almost four decades, Andy Hinds has spent most of it firmly entrenched behind the scenes. But in
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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 …
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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,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:16AMWednesday, December 3, 2014
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…
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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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMFriday, September 26, 2014
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…
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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 …
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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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMFriday, August 15, 2014
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…
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