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Fireworks as Queen’s honours poet Heaney

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:15:33 GMT

A festival of fireworks and song greeted Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney at Queen’s University when he received a Lifetime Achievement Award during the university’s Centenary Charter Day celebration.

Oh, there’s nothing like a dame to start the season

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:37:03 GMT

I can't avoid the P word any longer…Christmas is coming, and John Linehan is once again slipping into something silky and shiny for his eighteenth turn as panto dame May McFettridge at the Grand Opera House.

Plenty of variety in Christmas shows

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:33:59 GMT

Well, once again it’s round to the Christmas shows and first, a really great mixed exhibition in the Cavehill Gallery with a tremendous list of artists.

Prison play isn’t about the violence but loss of youth

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:15:31 GMT

Martin Lynch has written many acclaimed works about the Troubles. His latest play looks at Long Kesh prison and the experiences of inmates from both sides of the struggle. Laurence White reports

Eagerly awaited debut for Longside theatre company

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:37:40 GMT

It's not often we get the chance to welcome a new theatre company to town — so it's hats off and how-de-do to Longside Productions, the brainchild of Gary Wilson, an actor who moved to Northern Ireland from Lancashire five years ago.

Eddie Ken do it with one man show

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:36:26 GMT

With quite a number of exhibitions on at the moment I’d like to mention a number of them this week before launching into the Christmas shows in a few weeks’ time.

Standing up and taking the Blame

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:51:19 GMT

Tim McGarry and Patrick Kielty used to be our only homegrown comedians, but thanks to telly’s Blame Game, a whole new generation of talent is coming through.

Ice and a slice of hubble, bubble, toil and trouble

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:35:02 GMT

I know the temperature has taken a bit of a dip over the past week — but I didn't think it was cold enough for ice at the Grand Opera House!

Art: Traditional craftwork but not as you know it

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:30:31 GMT

After spending a couple of weeks on Belfast Festival goings-on, I thought it might be a good idea to do a round-up of what’s on elsewhere.

Americans lap up Russell Brand in LA

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:55:36 GMT

Dishevelled as ever, Russell Brand emerged blinking into the limelight of the Largo theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, and attempted to introduce himself to a nation where the word "Sachs" still makes people conjure up images of a department store.

Art - Thirty ways to celebrate our birthright

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:01:54 GMT

With Belfast Festival at Queen’s about to close, there is just time to catch the Human Rights exhibition in the Waterfront Hall.

Festival honours go to the powerful Antigone

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:01:37 GMT

The curtain falls on the first Ulster Bank Festival at Queen's tomorrow — and it's been a pretty good fortnight on the drama front, with plenty of those quirky, memorable shows that we only see at this time of year.

Child prostitution: suitable material for a musical?

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:39:46 GMT

It might seem strange for the British Psychoanalytic Council to sponsor a visit to a musical. But, then, Brett Kahr and Lisa Forrell's Rue Magique is hardly a typical musical – it is set in a south London brothel.

Andrea Corr to make her stage debut

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:22:37 GMT

Singer Andrea Corr is to make her London stage debut at the Old Vic, it has been announce.

Andrea’s stage debut

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:37:45 GMT

Singer Andrea Corr is to make her London stage debut at the Old Vic, it has been announced.

Sarah Silverman: Filthy irony and dark, dirty comedy take on our taboos

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:31:46 GMT

"I have had an abortion. Abortions. And obviously it's, like, one of the top 50 hardest decisions a woman can make." It's for lines like this, an opener last night at her first stand up gig in this country, that Sarah Silverman has been called "the world's most outrageous comic".

This wacky sporting life

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:01:33 GMT

It's always a bit unnerving when you know you're going to see a show that “defies description”.

Belfast gets last laugh as extra dates announced for comedy tour

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:39:38 GMT

Belfast is set to have the last laugh after it was announced two extra shows of the biggest selling comedy tour, Harp Laughs on Tour, have been added to the city’s schedule.

Roll up to the Spiegeltent, the Carnival’s on its way

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:15:32 GMT

One of the most spectacular shows at this year's Belfast Festival is Carnival — a circus extravaganza set in the splendid surroundings of the Speigeltent.

Around the houses: sound and vision

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:14:04 GMT

This weekend sees the official start of Belfast Festival at Queen’s — I say official because some of the events, on the arts programme at any rate, have already started.

Shows that nearly didn’t happen are sold out

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:00:02 GMT

Shakeseare in the park and Greek tragedy along the waterfront, sticky-taped wrestlers and a circus of horrors, a Dead Body and a handful of Dingledodies, flamenco and flhip flhop, Tina May sings Edith Piaf and Barb Jungr sings Nina Simone … not a bad looking random selection of events from this year’s Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s, which kicks off today.

Rachel makes Queen musical West End debut

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:00:28 GMT

Belfast's Rachel Tucker is set to make her leading lady West End debut tonight in the hit musical We Will Rock You.

Stolen paintings recovered in Holland

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:01:00 GMT

Dutch police have recovered five 17th century paintings which were stolen from the Frans Hals Museum in 2002.

Buyers snap up Hirst works for £70.5m

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:04:22 GMT

Damien Hirst's audacious plot to take his creations straight to auction paid off last night as he set a new personal record of £10.3m for one artwork in the first part of a two-part sale. The astounding £70.5m total raised at Sotheby's in London exceeded all expectations. The previous auction record for a work by Hirst was £9.7m.

Back in time with a thriller, into the future for a party

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:39:09 GMT

Prime Cut and Kabosh theatre companies are busy adding the final polish to the productions planned especially for this year's Ulster Bank Festival at Queen's.