Sunday, December 07, 2025

Robin Hood: The Panto – a show that successfully delights its young audiences (Yellow Jumper Productions at Theatre at the Mill until Saturday 3 January)

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The diminutive Sheriff of Nothingman (Aaron Ferguson) is searching for the charismatic hooded one (Tiarnán McCarron) who is hiding in the fo...
Saturday, December 06, 2025

Belfast Actually 2 – serving up chivalry, compromise and stacks of Christmas cheese (Theatre At The Mill until Saturday 3 January)

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Walking out of a Christmas show with a smile on your face should almost be the aim of producers. Leesa Harker and Andrea Montgomery are back...
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Friday, December 05, 2025

Pinocchio – spectacle triumphs over story in this glitzy pantomime (Grand Opera House until Sunday 11 January)

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The Grand Opera House pantomime is certainly a big show in town. Veteran performer May McFettridge is serenaded onto the stage (for the 35th...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Belfast Boy – baring his soul on a bare stage (Kat Woods at Lyric Theatre until 29 November)

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Jamie can’t sleep and his London GP would prefer to get to the root cause rather than send his patient out with tablets. Belfast Boy is a c...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

Pillion – Harry Lighton’s strong directorial debut with a tale of biker bondage (QFT and others from Friday 28 November)

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Peggy would like her son to settle down with a nice fella before her cancer catches up with her. So she doesn’t complain when Colin goes out...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Jack and the Beanstalk – rags and riches, poverty and privilege, a cow, some beans and a silent chicken (GBL Productions at Waterfront, extended until Sunday 11 January)

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Jack is the boy who dares to dream. His widowed mother, Dame Polly Ester, runs a dress ‘shap’. Milkshake the cow zooms across the stage on a...
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Jack Frost – stunning production design brings the ambition of opera to a frozen world of lore (The MAC until Thursday 1 January 2026)

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Jack Frost is an ambitious new show that creates a snowy adventure full of peril by weaving together strands of disparate mythology and fes...
Saturday, November 08, 2025

Lesbian Space Princess // Ulster Says No: The Year of Disorder – Belfast Film Festival #bff25

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From the blurb in the Belfast Film Festival programme , it was clear that Thursday evening’s Australian animation Lesbian Space Princess ha...

Marjorie’s Dead – mixing laughs and legend in this tale of a woman who lived once, buried twice (Dark Forest Theatre at Grand Opera House until Saturday 8 November)

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Marjorie McCall’s husband is the local doctor. John wasn’t able to properly diagnose or cure the sudden illness that cut her young life shor...
Thursday, November 06, 2025

Underscore // Housejackers – two feature films enhanced by Phil Kieran’s scores – Belfast Film Festival #bff25

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Two very different films celebrated their world premieres at Belfast’s Odeon Cinema last night as part of Belfast Film Festival. One thing l...
Wednesday, November 05, 2025

Office Politics // Fior Di Latte – an evening of men behaving badly – Belfast Film Festival #bff25

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Tuesday evening at Belfast Film Festival featured a duet of movies all about men behaving badly. North coast tragi-sex-comedy-part-horror Of...
Tuesday, November 04, 2025

Lucky Lu – a man reliant on the gig economy comes close to losing everything – Belfast Film Festival #bff25

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Less than a month ago, Queen’s Film Theatre screened the superb Souleymane’s Story about a Guinean refugee who works as a food delivery rid...
Monday, November 03, 2025

It Was Just An Accident // The Secret Agent // A Private Life – Belfast Film Festival #bff25

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Over eight hours on Sunday afternoon and evening, the Belfast Film Festival whisked me away to authoritarian regimes in Iran (contemporary) ...

Faust-ish – is a deal with the devil the only way out of this politician’s #CashForMash scandal? (Big Telly Theatre Company in Lyric Theatre as part of Belfast International Arts Festival until Sunday 9 November) #BIAF25

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The 2025 Belfast International Arts Festival programme has included some brilliant theatre productions , but they may have saved the best u...