Belfast’s magnificent Grand Opera House provides a gorgeous setting for a spectacular new international touring production of Ebb, Kander and Fosse’s big, brassy musical Chicago. The contrast between venue and stage presentation could not be more striking. Frank Matcham’s famous Victorian pleasure dome has recently been given a complete renovation and its ornate gilded furnishings, […]

‘Once there was a boy and the boy loved stars, very much. Every night the boy watched the stars from his window and wished he had one of his very own.’ So begins How to Catch a Star, Oliver Jeffers’ best-selling, multi-translated story of a small boy who sets out to catch a star and […]

In this, the centenary year of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, a major cultural project tracks a parallel epic journey across Europe, from Athens to Derry

After a Covid-imposed absence of two years, the Belfast Children’s Festival is back and picking up on the important issue of young people’s mental health and wellbeing.

In finally confronting the ghosts of Franco’s disappeared, Pedro Almodóvar crafts a film of luminous beauty, which offers hope and resolution to the victims and survivors of war.

Belfast’s Linen Hall Library, founded in 1788, celebrates its cultural and
historical links to the Enlightenment in an inspiring new festival.

An innovative self-guided audio walking tour meanders through Belfast’s
university quarter, viewing the world through the imagination of the great Irish writer Samuel Beckett

Green issues are the prevading themes of this impressive annual photography festival, but this year it’s all about white noise as the compass is set to Plein Nord – North Facing.

How an encounter on a Paris street inspired a film about the experience of a child migrant.

James (Jimmy) Ellis was an actor with an unmistakeable voice. He was also a bridge builder. On what would be his 90th birthday his life and work are celebrated in his native Belfast.