Michael Quinn

Northern Ireland reviewer

Reviews

Stones in His Pockets

Marie Jones

Barn Theatre, Cirencester

Lyric Theatre, Belfast

7 June–3 July 2022

Translations

Brian Friel

Lyric Theatre, Belfast and Abbey Theatre, Dublin

Lyric Theatre, Belfast

23 April–29 May 2022

This Sh*t Happens All The Time

Amanda Verlaque

Lyric Theatre, Belfast

22 March–2 April 2022

X’ntigone (after Sophocles’ Antigone)

Darren Murphy

Prime Cut Productions and The Mac, Belfast

The Mac, Belfast

2–13 February 2022

Pinocchio, The Greatest Wonder of the Age

Paul Boyd

Lyric Theatre, Belfast

26 November–31 December 2021

Mass

Conor Mitchell

Belfast Ensemble, Ulster Orchestra

The Telegraph Building, Belfast

17–18 November 2021

A Night in November

Marie Jones

Soda Bread Theatre Company

The MAC, Belfast

11–28 November 2021

Department Story

Cathy Carson, Jan Carson, Roisín O’Donnell

Big Telly

Royal Avenue, Belfast

20–31 October 2021

The Grimm Hotel

Charles Way and Paul Bosco McEneaney

Cahoots NI

Cityside Retail & Leisure Park, Belfast

12–31 October 2021

The Border Game

Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney

Prime Cut Productions, Lyric Theatre, Belfast

Lyric Theatre, Belfast

2–23 October 2021

News

Northern Ireland Opera reveals lead Traviata cast

16 June 2022

Northern Ireland Opera has announced the main cast for its upcoming La traviata in September.

Lyric Belfast's autumn-winter season image

Belfast’s Lyric reveals autumn/winter season

12 June 2022

New Northern Irish work takes centre stage in the Lyric, Belfast’s autumn-winter season.

Poster for Northern Ireland Opera's La Traviata

Northern Ireland Opera tease first Traviata company details

28 April 2022

Northern Ireland Opera has revealed three key female participants for its highly anticipated La traviata in September.

Poster image for Lyric, Belfast and Abbey, Dublin's revival of Brian Friel's Translations

Friel’s Translations major Belfast and Dublin revival

18 March 2022

The Lyric Theatre, Belfast and Dublin’s Abbey Theatre have announced a significant new production of Brian Friel’s play Translations.

Poster image for Amanda Verlaque's This Sh*t Happens All The Time

Verlaque play to première at Lyric Belfast

16 March 2022

Amanda Verlaque’s eagerly awaited second play, This Sh*t Happens All The Time, is to receive its first production at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre.

Lisa Duffy, Eimear Fearon and James Doran in Laurence McKeown's Before You Go

Kabosh to tour McKeown’s online success Before You Go

15 March 2022

Belfast-based Kabosh is to take Laurence McKeown’s intense family drama Before You Go on tour following its success online last year.

Jimmy Fay, Caitríona McLaughlin (front), Amanda Verlaque, Matthew Cavan, Rhiann Jeffery (middle), Sophie McGibbon (back) launch the Lyric’s new season

Belfast's Lyric reveals spring/summer season

12 February 2022

A major revival of Brian Friel’s Translations is to be the centrepiece of the Lyric Theatre, Belfast’s newly announced spring/summer season.

Poster image for Dominic Montague's Callings

Kabosh celebrate NI’s LGBTQ+ community with "beautiful new play"

12 February 2022

The beginnings of Northern Ireland’s LGBTQ+ community is the focus of Dominic Montague's Callings, described as “a compelling piece of queer theatre”, from Belfast-based Kabosh.

Poster image for Northern Ireland Opera's Into the Woods

NI Opera ventures Into the Woods for first outing of 2022

7 January 2022

Northern Ireland Opera has announced full cast details for its first production of 2022, with Sean Kearns and Wendy Ferguson headlining Sondheim and Lapine’s Into the Woods.

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.