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TV REVIEW: From There To Here (Episode One)
The cast and premise are squandered in a drama that never really finds its grooveThe promotional material and trailers for the BBC Northern Ireland produced drama From There To Here seem to dare its...
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THEATRE REVIEW: Unspoken Love/Our Lives Without You
The Playhouse's Theatre Of Witness programme premieres plays on mixed marriages and survivors in Derry-LondonderryThe Theatre Of Witness mentoring programme, set up by Derry-Londonderry's Playhouse...
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TV REVIEW: From There To Here
The slick but slight BBC NI production finds its bearings and becomes compelling family dramaA small but significant realisation dawns upon us all at the start of the final episode of the three-part...
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ART REVIEW: Irish Art In Derry
Derry-Londonderry's Gordon Gallery enters its final throes with a rich, varied mixture of abstract and pleasurable artIt is the closest equivalent of London's Tate Modern that Derry-Londonderry...
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MUSIC REVIEW: Jammboree
The Playhouse Theatre in Derry-Londonderry hosts two nights' worth of local musical talentDerry-Londonderry's Jammboree festival, the brainchild of John Ross, is one of the high watermarks of Music...
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CLASSICAL REVIEW: Sonatas And Dances
Violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky and pianist Cathal Breslin bring the curtain down on the Walled City Music Festival in "Euroclectic" fashionA mixture of Beethoven, Kreisler, Prokofiev, Bartok and Ravel...
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Frightened Rabbit At Stendhal
The Scottish Indie rockers look forward to their "home-away-from-home" coming gigStendhal Festival of Art returns to Ballymully Cottage Farm, Limavady, on August 8 and 9 for what promises to be the...
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FILM REVIEW: Boyhood
Richard Linklater's magnum opus is a tale of loss, love and livelihoodThere are two ways to look at Richard Linklater's Boyhood. You could see it as the real-time life story it promotes itself as, a...
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THEATRE REVIEW: Punk Rock
Belfast's Lyric Theatre stages an unpredictable mosaic of a play, an archetypal reflection of the titular musicNothing in the trailers, the title or even most of the show itself can really prepare you...
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CAPSULE REVIEW: Lucy
Tradition, isn't it? Killer sci-fi concepts, sensical or nonsensical, turned into Hubba Bubba? Or simple action flicks pretending to be intelligent? Tempting though it would be to bracket Luc Besson's...
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ART REVIEW: From The North To The Republic
Belfast's Linenhall Library hosts a quietly powerful and gently symbolic photography exhibitionSparkling colours are rare but sharp symbolism is plentiful in Valentina Culley-Foster's From The North To...
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Rhys Dunlop And Lauren Coe: Punk Rockers
The stars of Simon Stephens'Punk Rock on their characters, their experiences and the meaning behind the playMeet William Carlisle, a painfully shy and bright seventeen-year-old boy with something of a...
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MUSIC REVIEW: MTV Crashes, Derry-Londonderry
No matter what one's taste in music may be, it's hard to ignore MTV. When the 2011 European Music Awards were staged in Belfast, the commotion created by the likes of Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga and Justin...
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MUSIC REVIEW: Club MTV Night, Derry-Londonderry
You've heard the expression, "the morning after the night before". Well, Saturday September 20 2014 is a case of the night after the night before, as thousands of weary but happy folk trudge into...
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THEATRE REVIEW: Pentecost
The Lyric Theatre hosts a strongly acted and well scripted tale of penetrative penitenceStewart Parker's powerful period piece, Pentecost, resurrected for Belfast's Lyric in 2014 by the theatre's...
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THEATRE REVIEW: Josef Locke – A Grand Adventure
Derry-Londonderry's Playhouse Theatre presents a hard-knuckled, reflective tribute to one of its musical legendsYou might think of Josef Locke – A Grand Adventure as a slideshow featuring a pompous,...
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Synge & Byrne
Si's Sights And Sounds investigates Derry-Londonderry's latest "coffice", or "caffice" on the day of its official openingOnce upon a time, a Guardian staff writer coined a concise, catchy, crossover...
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Judith Roddy And A Particular Dread
The actress discusses her role in the Lyric Theatre's production of PentecostLast year, Derry-Londonderry born actress Judith Roddy found herself at a Q and A film director Danny Boyle was giving for...
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THEATRE REVIEW: Chateau Le Fear
Derry-Londonderry's newest "nightmare" is a castle of confusion, chaos, creeps and creative characterisation. Inspired, in the words of creator Phil Ruddock, by "too many late night movies and a little...
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MUSIC REVIEW: A Musical Gathering (A Stór Mo Chroí)
A successful celebration of the dedication and craft of eight Irish traditional musicians, the A Stór Mo Chroí collective's Musical Gathering was everything one could hope for an evening of folk music...
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