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Reviews

Sean Kearns, host of The Grimm Hotel

The Grimm Hotel

Charles Way and Paul Bosco McEneaney

Cahoots NI

Cityside Retail & Leisure Park, Belfast

12–31 October 2021

Ciaran Bagnall's set for The Border Game

The Border Game

Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney

Prime Cut Productions, Lyric Theatre, Belfast

Lyric Theatre, Belfast

2–23 October 2021

Amanda Verlaque's Distortion

Distortion

Amanda Verlaque

The Mac, Belfast

The Mac, Belfast

30 September–24 October 2021

Tara Lynne O'Neill takes centre stage in her debut play, Rough Girls

Rough Girls

Tara Lynne O’Neill

Lyric Theatre, Belfast

Lyric Theatre, Belfast

8–25 September 2021

James Doran as Edward Carson

Carson and the Lady

Michael Cameron

Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, Theatre at The Mill

Antrim Castle Gardens

2–4 September 2021

Kevin Canavan's Count (right) meets his end in Lyric Drama Studio's Dracula

Dracula

Liz Lochhead

Lyric Theatre Drama Studio

Lyric Theatre, Belfast

27 July–1 August 2021

News

La Bohème poster

Northern Ireland Opera's La Bohème

20 August 2021

International tenor Noah Stewart will perform Rodolfo in Cameron Menzies’s production of La Bohème this September.

Advance publicity for The Border Game

My Left Nut writers explore Irish border with new play

3 August 2021

Belfast’s Lyric and Prime Cut Productions will collaborate on a new play by Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney exploring the impact of the Northern Irish border in the centenary year of its creation.

NI Opera's La Bohème

NI Opera announces its delayed return to live performances

23 July 2021

Northern Ireland Opera unveils a new era with its first live performances with audiences in 19 months.