Denouement review: A wedding anniversary that’s the end of the world
Belfast International Arts Festival: Patrick O’Kane and Anna Healy star in John Morton’s dark comedy for the Lyric Theatre
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Tales from an Irish Persian kitchen: ‘Food is always about community, as is theatre. You’re sharing something really personal’
My English Persian Kitchen, by the Palestinian-Irish playwright Hannah Khalil, tells the story of the Belfast-based food writer Atoosa Sepehr
Irish architects have designed a new London neighbourhood. What could they do here?
A newspaper on a Tube journey led Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey to work on the flagship East Bank project
Patrick O’Kane on Denouement: ‘It’s a play about renewal in the face of an apocalypse’
Belfast International Arts Festival 2025: John Morton’s play deals with a struggling marriage faced with the ultimate existential disaster
Robin Glendinning: Founder member of North’s Alliance Party was noted playwright and poet
Teacher, politician and Irish-language enthusiast wrote dramas that reflected on the wider politics of Northern Ireland
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
Game of Thrones actor Conleth Hill: ‘I was resistant for a long time. I’m not into wizards’
The `Shakespearean' HBO fantasy brought the Northern actor to a wider audience, and he's not complaining
2025 on stage: 21 plays, operas and dance works to see over the next 12 months
From King Lear at the Gate to Dr Strangelove starring Steve Coogan, the coming year’s stage line-up includes jukebox musicals, period romcom and a play that probes the Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake
The Tragedy of Richard III: Editing Shakespeare’s crude portrait of the disabled royal
Belfast International Arts Festival 2024: Oisín Kearney and Michael Patrick’s inventive staging exposes some of the play’s bile
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 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
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
Slippery When Wet review: Sparky solo show brims with queasy humour and scathing self-awareness
Theatre: Devlin cleverly creates workplace mundanity and half-promise of a good time
Rhino review: Ionesco reimagined in the virtual worlds of gaming and automaton-like avatars
Belfast International Arts Festival 2023: Patrick J O’Reilly presents cold, sci-fi-inspired dramatic concept
Burnt Out review: In Gary Mitchell’s new play, the destructive past resurfaces in the blink of an eye
Belfast International Arts Festival 2023: Dark deeds offset by cartoony humour have been a Mitchell trademark. It’s not as potent a combination here
Gary Mitchell: ‘I physically went into hiding because of the terror I saw in my children’s eyes’
The Belfast playwright still bears the scars of paramilitary intimidation. Burnt Out, his new play, is blunt about the old fantasies and harsh realities of Northern Ireland
Romeo and Juliet review: Fair Verona with Aperol spritz
Lyric Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s doomed romance emphasises the contemporary at expense of the universal
Propaganda review: Satisfying ruses in a cold-war musical
Belfast International Arts Festival: Conor Mitchell has crafted a slippery, intelligent new opera
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