Children’s theatre company Cahoots: ‘We’ve been playing 3,500-seat venues – and filling them. It was a whole new experience’
Cahoots artistic director and cofounder Paul McEneaney on the Belfast company's 'game-changing' run in the United States
Waiting for Godot review: Olwyn Fouéré, breaking ground as the first woman to star in Beckett’s play, gives a sublime performance
The extraordinary acting of Fouéré and her fellow principals is all the more remarkable for being unpolished, undirected and unrehearsed
Calling extremely early birds: Beckett tickets go on sale 11 years before performances
In Krapp’s Last Tape, Richard Dormer and Samuel West will use recordings they made 30 years earlier, in line with Beckett’s vision
The Velveteen Rabbit, reimagined: ‘I had to think what would persuade me to go to a children’s play and enjoy it’
Jan Carson and Duke Special are bringing Margery Williams’s classic book to the stage for Belfast Children’s Festival
Suspect Device: The poignant story of Irish trans bus driver Wilma Creith
Theatre: Staged in a vintage Ulsterbus, Raphaël Amahl Khouri’s high-concept play chronicles Creith’s difficult transition as she found her true self
Blues guitarist Dom Martin: ‘There was a lot of judgment about the drink and the drugs, from people who didn’t know my dad’
The Antrim man’s playing has prompted comparisons with Rory Gallagher
Michael Patrick on Richard III: ‘It’s the first time on the island of Ireland a disabled actor has played this role’
‘We ask what happens when you have a life-threatening disease and only a few years to live,’ says the actor, who was diagnosed with MND last year
‘The church no longer has the same grip on moral values and lives but is still very much in our bodies and our mindsets’
Belfast International Arts Festival 2024: Patrick J O’Reilly on the power of Yerma, Lorca’s haunting rural tragedy, which he has relocated to Cooley for Tinderbox’s new production
Shift: ‘Exploring the issue of climate displacement has been a real eye-opener’
A spectacular performance piece by 70 young dancers and musicians from across Ireland is set to confront audiences with the existential threats hovering over our planet
Yes to Molly Bloomsday weekend: Four days of women-led spectacle in Derry and Donegal
The Ulysses European Odyssey stretches across 18 European cities that have produced artistic responses to the novel
The Pillowman review: Martin McDonagh’s early play gets a pin-sharp, meticulously controlled staging from Lyric and Prime Cut
Theatre: Emma Jordan directs a well-balanced ensemble cast in the playwright’s depiction of a writer suspected of child murder in a totalitarian state
Adrian Dunbar on Beckett: ‘I seemed to be getting knocked around emotionally but didn’t know how he was doing it’
For Beckett: Unbound 2024, the actor has teamed up with the composer Nick Roth to stage a festival of the writer’s work in Paris and Liverpool
Conductor Daniele Rustioni says a fond goodbye to the Ulster Orchestra: ‘Some of the music was fantastic – it touched heaven’
The orchestra will say farewell to its dynamic, charismatic music director with a performance of Mahler’s epic Symphony No 2, Resurrection
Riot Symphony composer Conor Mitchell: ‘I’m hoping that one of Pussy Riot will come to the concert’
The composer’s new work, which is to receive its world premiere with the Ulster Orchestra, commemorates anti-Nazi protester Sophie Scholl
Little Women review: crowd-pleaser kicks off Lyric’s 2024 spring season
Theatre: Anne-Marie Casey’s production wraps itself around audience like comforting, hand-quilted blanket