In the Belvoir Street theatre, visionary director Eamon Flack and his crew of energizing, young actors and actresses have been working away for months on what will be one of the most exciting events of the whole year. King Lear, one of the most iconic Shakespearean plays of all time, is being played from November […]
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Dance we will and dance we must. From a chorus of hairy fauns to singing swans and showgirl stars, experience an unforgettable, frenetic song-and-dance into meaning. A musical celebration that will shock you out of stagnancy and into ecstatic oblivion from “the queen of chanson” (Berliner Zeitung) with “devilish funny bones and heavenly vocal cords” […]
Belvoir is a great big ongoing unfinished story made up of all the stories we tell, have ever told, and are yet to tell. Every new show adds to this gargantuan decades-long group-improvisation. It is a tale told by thousands. An epic hundreds of episodes long. Full of heroism and feats of daring. Ever-changing. Full […]
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March 30, 2024 Belvoir St Theatre Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Holding the Man is the memoir of Timothy Conigrave, written after the death of his lover John Caleo from AIDS in 1992, and published a few months after his own death two years later. It tells the story of their 15 year love […]
From 1 February, Belvoir will bring to the stage Tiny Beautiful Things, a life-affirming play based onCheryl Strayed’s bestselling book, adapted by Academy Award-nominee Nia Vardalos, best known forstarring in and writing in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Tiny Beautiful Things explores the complexities of life through the lens of Cheryl Strayed’s onlinadvice columnist persona, […]
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