NEWS
Child actors on stage in Macbeth
16 Nov 2012A group of budding child actors has been rubbing shoulders on stage with the professional cast of Macbeth. A Shakespearean …
Culture Minister supports Lyric drive to make theatre affordable to all
24 Oct 2012Culture Minister, Carál Ní Chuilín visited the Lyric Theatre in Belfast today to show her support for a scheme which …
Cambridge lab pips Lyric to Stirling Prize
13 Oct 2012Hopes for the Lyric Theatre winning architecture’s top prize have been dashed after the Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge was announced …
Lyric in Olympian battle for Stirling prize
11 Oct 2012The Lyric Theatre is best known for dramas on-stage but this week the nerves will be off-stage as it awaits …
Lyric knife drama performed for women prisoners
10 Oct 2012The Lyric Theatre production of knife crime drama The Long Road was performed inside Hydebank Wood prison for an …
And god said let there be light, and light there was
04 Oct 2012Christine Collins, a recent graduate of Queen’s University Belfast is a technical intern at the Lyric Theatre. Christine won …
Knife-edge drama in The Long Road
20 Sep 2012Seven summers ago a teenage boy went to buy sweets one evening in north Belfast and never came home. Thomas …
First Lyric production of Shakespeare on new stage
01 Sep 2012A formidable cast assembled this week for the start of rehearsals for Macbeth – the first Lyric production of Shakespeare …
New writer-in-residence ‘thrilled’ to be at Lyric
30 Aug 2012Critically acclaimed playwright, Abbie Spallen, has just been announced as the Lyric Theatre Belfast’s new Writer-in-Residence. The Newry-born writer …