The Velveteen Rabbit continues at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast until 30 March 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Margery Williams’ classic children’s book The Velveteen Rabbit charms its way onto the stage in a lively adaptation by Jan Carson and Duke Special as cosy as a bedtime story, as colourful as a pantomime, and as pleasing as a parent’s reassuring hug.
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All Growed Up – Lyric Theatre, Belfast
All Growed Up, performed by the British Youth Music Theatre, was reviewed at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ There is no faulting the energy and enthusiasm of the 36-strong cast of young performers.
Propaganda – Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Propaganda continues at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast until 5 November 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Lenin defined “propaganda” as “the reasoned use of historical and scientific arguments to indoctrinate the educated and enlightened”. Belfast-based composer Conor Mitchell uses the term as the title for his new musical; the plot is set in Berlin 1948 during the 323 days of the infamous Soviet blockade.
Into The Woods – Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Into The Woods continues at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast until 27 February 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Northern Ireland Opera production of Into The Woods currently gracing the stage of the rather lovely Lyric Theatre in Belfast is the first full professional staging in the UK of a Stephen Sondheim […]
You could play a part in British Youth Music Theatre’s wonderfully creative summer season 2022
After two years of isolation and cancellations during the pandemic, theatres are finally coming back to life and start planning for the future. In this context youth theatres are also working as proactively as ever to provide young performers with the kind of social, educational and creative activities they have been lacking for many months. […]
Gulliver’s Travels – Youth Music Theatre UK
Gulliver’s Travels was performed by Youth Music Theatre at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ After last year’s accomplished re-imagining of Macbeth (currently to be seen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe) Youth Music Theatre returns to Belfast’s Lyric Theatre in an equally ambitious frame of mind to stage Jonathan […]
The Last Five Years – Lyric Theatre, Belfast
The Last Five Years continues at the Naughton Studio, Lyric Theatre, Belfast until4 July. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The Irish premiere of Jason Robert Brown’s touching two-hander The Last Five Years finds Belfast’s Blunt Fringe Productions measurably growing in confidence in a compact but altogether captivating production by director Stephen Whitson. Founded in late 2013, […]
Amy Lennox replaces Laura Tebbutt in The Last Five Years at Lyric Belfast
Amy Lennox will play Cathy opposite Fra Fee as Jamie in Jason Robert Brown’s award-winning musical The Last Five Years at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast from 24 June to 4 July 2015, replacing the previously-announced Laura Tebbutt who is no longer available for the run. Lennox will then go straight into rehearsals for the UK premiere of Kinky […]
Fra Free and Laura Tebbutt star in The Last Five Years at Lyric Belfast
Fra Fee and Laura Tebbutt are set to star in Jason Robert Brown’s award-winning The Last Five Years at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast from 24 June to 4 July 2015, playing the roles the two performers have dreamt of since they met at the Royal Academy of Music back in 2009. Fra Fee read music […]
The World Goes ‘Round – Lyric Theatre, Belfast
The World Goes ‘Round: The Songs of Kander & Ebb was performed at the Naughton Studio, Lyric Theatre, Belfast. If the challenge for any new company is to make sure its first public outing announces the new venture in style, then the debut appearance by Northern Ireland’s youngest company, Blunt Fringe Productions, can be judged a […]
