The Nightshift Before Christmas
A fine cast, madcap characters and a sparky script make for a Christmas comedy filled with laughter and pathos.
Read More The Nightshift Before ChristmasAuthor: Jane Coyle
I'm a Belfast-based professional arts journalist and critic. Over the years I've been a regular contributor to The Stage, the Irish Times, Irish Theatre Magazine, BBC Northern Ireland and many other media outlets in Ireland, the UK and France. The Even Hand comprises features, reviews and comment on arts and culture across Ireland and beyond.
Peter Pan
Bigger and brighter than ever and as for the 3D sequence … be very afraid!
Read More Peter PanHansel & Gretel
A panoply of fairytale and fantasy characters deliver a mischievous Christmas show for the austerity era.
Read More Hansel & GretelChristian Dior – Couturier du Rêve
A spectacular homage to 70 years of the House of Dior.
Read More Christian Dior – Couturier du RêveThree Sisters
A stunning revolving set permits intimate glimpses into the life of the Prozorov family in Simon Stone’s powerful modernisation of Chekov’s masterpiece.
Read More Three SistersMusée Marmottan Monet
The veil is lifted for the first time on a previously unknown aspect of the life of Claude Monet, as an avid collector of fine art.
Read More Musée Marmottan MonetWhat the Reindeer Saw
Last year it was the donkey, this year Grimes & McKee chart a crisis in the Claus family business from the perspective of some particularly dim-witted reindeer.
Read More What the Reindeer SawCosi Fan Tutte
Slapstick comedy and handsome design characterise NI Opera’s production of Mozart’s opera buffa.
Read More Cosi Fan TutteOutburst 2017
Outburst Queer Arts Festival lights up the month of November.
Read More Outburst 2017Tactics for Time Travel in a Toilet
TheatreofplucK’s confrontational new play in The Barracks for Outburst.
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