SEASON AT A GLANCE
PRODUCTION DATES VENUE
OUT IN THE COUNTRY 29 MAY -1 JUN 2025 NAUGHTON STUDIO
GOOD WITH FACES 4 - 7 JUN 2025 NAUGHTON STUDIO
KYRON BOURKE CELEBRATES LEONARD COHEN 12 - 14 JUN 2025 NAUGHTON STUDIO
FALLING TO EARTH - MY SUMMER WITH BOWIE 19 - 21 JUN 2025 NAUGHTON STUDIO
LIES WHERE IT FALLS 24 - 29 JUN 2025 NAUGHTON STUDIO
ROSE+BUD 24 - 26 JULY 2025 NAUGHTON STUDIO
THE TUNNEL 31 JULY - 16 AUG 2025 MAIN STAGE IN THE NAME OF THE SON 19 - 31 AUG 2025 MAIN STAGE
COME FROM AWAY 4 - 13 SEP 2025 MAIN STAGE
THE SNAPPER 17 - 20 SEP 2025 MAIN STAGE
DEAR ARABELLA 24 SEP - 12 OCT 2025 MAIN STAGE
THE PITCH 2 - 4 OCT 2025 NAUGHTON STUDIO
MY RIGHT FOOT 12 - 15 OCT 2025 NAUGHTON STUDIO UNRECONCILED 17 - 19 OCT 2025 NAUGHTON STUDIO
INSTRUCTIONS 21 - 22 OCT 2025 NAUGHTON STUDIO
MY ENGLISH PERSIAN KITCHEN 24 - 25 OCT 2025 NAUGHTON STUDIO
DENOUEMENT 21 OCT - 15 NOV 2025 MAIN STAGE
FAUST-ISH 29 OCT - 9 NOV 2025 NAUGHTON STUDIO
COUNT MAGNUS 11 NOV - 16 NOV 2025 NAUGHTON STUDIO
FOR AND AGAINST IRISH UNIFICATION - BOOK LAUNCH 17 NOV 2025 MAIN STAGE
BELFAST GIRLS 19 NOV - 22 NOV 2025 NAUGHTON STUDIO
A CHRISTMAS CAROL 28 NOV 25 - 10 JAN 26 MAIN STAGE
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Bad is Back Productions presents:
Out In The Country
Get ready for a side-splitting one-woman comedy that takes you on one woman’s journey to come out as a lesbian in rural Tyrone in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Through a hilarious whirlwind of characters, Briege navigates a world where the word “Lesbian” sounds as foreign as quinoa.
Written
by:
Breige Devlin
Directed by: Breige Devlin & Bronagh Murtagh
Dates: 29 May - 1 Jun 2025
Times: 15:00 | 20:00
Naughton Studio
Oisín Kearney presents:
Good With Faces
Anne Garrick has tided her house, cleaned her face and even bought the good biscuits. But when social worker Liam Hegarty arrives to interview her about her son Max, the questions get more and more intrusive. Will the truth come out? Good with Faces is a riveting new play from award-winning writer and director Oisín Kearney.
Written by: Oisín Kearney
Directed by: Oisín Kearney
Dates: 4 - 7 Jun 2025
Time: 20:00
Naughton Studio
Bernie Bourke presents:
Kyron Bourke Celebrates Leonard Cohen
Kyron Bourke and his band (Paddy Craig, Drums, Mateusz Hmmyeahlevysky, Guitars, Padraig Dooney, Keyboards, Sax, Ewi) will be joined by an array of surprise guests for a superb celebration of the late legendary Leonard Cohen with fresh rousing interpretations of some of his most memorable songs.
Written by: Kyron Bourke
Directed by: Bernie Bourke
Dates: 12 - 14 Jun 2025
Times: 15:00 | 20:00
Naughton Studio
Donal Shiels presents:
Falling To Earth: My Summer With Bowie
Scut feels like an alien in his hometown. Single, loveless, and caring for a father who never cared for him, his only joy is the music of David Bowie. But fate is about to intervene as Scut’s life collides with the White Duke himself. This powerful one-man show is brought to life by Stephen Jones (Love/Hate, Ripper Street).
Written by: Eugene O’Brian
Directed by: Jim Nolan
Dates: 19 - 21 Jun 2025
Time: 20:00
Naughton Studio
Ruairi Conaghan presents:
Lies Where It Falls
In 1974, Judge Rory Conaghan was shot dead by the IRA on his Belfast doorstep whilst holding his 9-year-old daughter’s hand. Actor Ruairi Conaghan is Judge Conaghan’s nephew and namesake. His memories of the murder led to a physical and mental collapse that threatened his life and inspired this courageous story of recovery.
Written & Performed by: Ruairi Conaghan
Dates: 24 - 29 Jun 2025
Times: 15:00 | 20:00
Naughton Studio
Commedia of Errors presents:
Rose + Bud
Rose + Bud by Rose Coogan, directed by Benjamin Gould. Presented in partnership with the Pleasance Theatre Trust and Lyric Belfast as part of the Edinburgh National Partnerships. Rose + Bud is this year’s bursary winner and the production will have a run at the Lyric before heading to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Written by: Rose Coogan
Directed by: Benjamin Gould
Dates: 24 - 26 Jul 2025
Times: 15:00 | 20:00
Naughton Studio
The Tunnel
Brassneck Theatre Company presents:
Heavy construction rattles the political status prison hut. On the other side of the wall, a dreaded new prison complex is being built. ‘Criminalisation’ is on its way for the men behind the wire…A tunnel breakout is planned. Some are escaping to rejoin the war, others want to flee, all are desperate to survive. Are they clawing their way to freedom or digging their own graves? Academy Award-Winning director Terry George joins forces with Brassneck Theatre Company to present the Irish premiere of his thrilling masterpiece.
Written by: Terry George
Directed by: Terry George Long Kesh prison camp - 1976.
Dates: 31 Jul - 16 Aug 2025
Times: 14:30 | 19:30
Main Stage
IN The NAME OF THE SON
Green Shoot Productions presents:
You may know Gerry Conlon from In The Name of The Father, but what happened after his release is even more extraordinary. In the Name of the Son reveals his journey from global recognition and celebrity circles to addiction and desperation on the streets of London. Struggling with grief and guilt, Conlon’s life unraveled—until he found the strength to recover. Rising from the depths, he became a powerful voice for justice, fighting for others wrongfully imprisoned. This gripping, emotional story has left audiences stunned from Belfast to the Edinburgh Fringe and all the way to New Zealand.
From Prison to Power and Back: The Untold Story of Gerry Conlon
Written by: Richard O’Rawe & Martin Lynch
Directed by: Tony Devlin
Dates: 19 - 31 Aug 2025
Time: 14:30 | 19:30
Main Stage
St Agnes’ Choral Society presents:
Come From Away
A Remarkable True Story
This smash hit musical tells the inspiring true story of 7,000 air passengers grounded in Canada after 9/11, and the small Newfoundland town of Gander that welcomed them with open hearts. This is a non-professional production presented by St Agnes Choral Society.
Director: Rachel Logan Fee
Music & Lyrics:
Irene Sankoff and David Hein
Musical Director: Andrew Robinson
Dates: 4 - 13 Sep 2025
Times: Various
Main Stage
Bardic Theatre presents:
The Snapper
Bardic Theatre is delighted to be back in the Lyric to bring you Roddy Doyle’s uproarious comedy, The Snapper! Brace yourself for a riot of laughter as we dive headfirst into the chaos of the Rabbitte family, where Sharon Rabbitte’s unexpected pregnancy sparks enough gossip to fuel the entire neighbourhood for years. This is a non-professional production presented by Bardic Theatre.
Written by: Roddy Doyle
Directed by: Bugsy McMahon
Dates: 17 - 20 Sep 2025
Times: 14:30 | 19:30
Main Stage
DEAR ARABELLA
Patrick Talbot Productions and Rathmore Productions
Three women: Jean, feeling increasingly claustrophobic in caring for her demanding mother;
Elsie, still trying, after so many years, to try and get to know the soldier husband who returned from the war a very different man;
Arabella, a widow haunted by dashed expectations and ghosts from the past.
Three tales of love, regret and loss are subtly brought together via a random act of kindness which in turn triggers an encounter on a beach which results in a life-long obsession.
Full of Marie Jones’ signature humour, Dear Arabella marvels at how the most commonplace chance encounters can impact lives in the most meaningful and enduring ways.
‘Iwroteto her, and poured myheartoutto her. She would probablynevergetit, butitdidn’tmatter, itdidn’t matter at all.’
Written
Directed by: Matthew McElhinney
Dates: 24 Sep - 12 Oct 2025
Times: 14:30 | 19:30
by: Marie Jones Main Stage
Moya Jane Productions presents:
The Pitch
Sports mad, local boy Robbie has lived in Sydenham his whole life. He practices football every day on his favourite pitch, with his younger sister Melissa. GAA player Deren has lived in East Belfast since he was a kid too, but he’s never had a pitch to call home.
Written by: Philip Catherwood
Directed by: Thea Mayeux
Dates: 2 - 4 Oct 2025
Times: 15:00 | 20:00
Naughton Studio
My Right Foot
How do you live your life in 4 short years?
This is the question actor/writer Michael Patrick is faced with after being diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease - the same disease that killed his father. It started with his right foot, but has spread and Michael must adjust to his changing reality.
Written by: Michael Patrick & Oisín Kearney
Directed by: Oisín Kearney
Dates: 12 - 15 Oct 2025
Time: 20:00
Naughton Studio
Denouement
A Lyric Theatre Production
Part of the Belfast International Arts Festival
It’s 2048. And it’s the end of the world.
Edel and Liam are living out the final hours in a remote Irish farmhouse at the base of a mountain. Liam frantically rat-a-tats his memories on a battered old typewriter, while Edel tries to connect with their children to say their final goodbyes.
Set against an extraordinary apocalyptic backdrop, Denouement is a funny, tragic and slightly absurd observation of what remains when everything else is gone. As the world collapses around them, Edel and Liam show the might of the human spirit as they navigate the end of the world with humour, honesty, and decades of shared history.
Intensely provocative and wonderfully witty, Denouement is both a glimpse into a dystopian future, and a moving portrait of an enduring relationship between two ordinary people. Are some things better left unsaid, even at the end?
Originally submitted to the Lyric’s New Playwrights Programme, John Morton’s Denouement captivated the selection panel so completely that it was commissioned immediately. Experience its stage debut this Autumn at the Lyric Theatre. This bold piece of new writing will stay with you long after the curtain closes.
“Howmanytimes havewethoughtwe were done for since thisstarted?Andyet, here we are.”
Written by: John Morton
Dates: 21 Oct - 15 Nov 2025
Main Stage Times: 14:30 | 19:30
“Atmospheric dystopian drama.”
The Stage British Theatre Guide
“[It] has the power to shock and amuse, as well as allowing space for thought about human interactions.”
*Reviews from the 2020 rehearsed reading of the script as part of Listen At The Lyric series
Unreconciled Project Inc. presents:
Unreconciled
Part of the Belfast International Arts Festival
A powerful, hilarious, and heartbreaking story of courage, family, and reclaiming your voice, Unreconciled is based on the true story of an adolescent actor cast as Jesus in a school play directed by a priest. Set in Philadelphia, this solo-show chronicles a survivor’s journey to confront his past.
Written by: Jay Sefton & Mark Basquill
Directed by: Geraldine Hughes
Dates: 17 - 19 Oct 2025
Times: 15:00 | 20:00
Naughton Studio
Subject Object presents:
Instructions
Part of the Belfast International Arts Festival
A show about AI. Every day a different unrehearsed performer takes to the stage, ready to receive instructions. Line-byline a story unfolds, and a life unspools. The Actor is about to give the performance of a lifetime as the borders between reality and fiction begin to blur.
Written by: Nathan Ellis
Directed by: Nathan Ellis
Dates: 21 - 22 Oct 2025
Time: 20:00
Naughton Studio
Soho Theatre presents:
My English Persian Kitchen
Part of the Belfast International Arts Festival
What would you take if you were forced to leave home with no hope of returning? How would you make a fresh start somewhere completely new? Written by award-winning Hannah Khalil from the story by Atoosa Sepehr, this life-affirming play chronicles one woman’s quest to start again.
Written
by:
Hannah Khalil
Directed by: Chris White
Dates: 24 - 25 Oct 2025
Time: 20:00
Naughton Studio
Faust-ish
Part of the Belfast International Arts Festival
A story wild and strange with delicious shivers, about a woman who becomes a distraction, falls from grace and deals with the devil in the dead of night in a desolate place….Where bargains have legs and pacts have teeth, a fever dream of otherworldly humdrummerie, beautiful theatre and solid craic.
Written by: Nicola McCartney
Directed by: Zoe Seaton
Dates: 29 Oct - 9 Nov 2025
Times: 15:00 | 20:00
Naughton Studio
Big Telly Theatre Company presents:
Nukie Theatre Company presents:
Count Magnus
Nunkie Theatre Company revives M.R. James’s chilling ghost stories in a gripping one-man show. Count Magnus follows a writer’s eerie journey from Sweden to Essex, while Number 13 unveils a horrifying secret in a Danish hotel. Timeless tales that still amuse and terrify over a century later.
Written by: M R James
Performed by: Robert Lloyd Parry
Dates: 11 - 16 Nov 2025
Times: 15:00 | 20:00
Naughton Studio
An Táin Arts Centre and Quintessence Theatre presents:
Belfast Girls
In 1850, five fierce young women flee famine-stricken Ireland aboard a ship to Australia. Trapped together at sea, secrets surface and tensions rise. Jaki McCarrick’s award-winning drama powerfully explores class, patriarchy, and colonialism in a gripping tale of survival, hope, and the inescapable weight of the past.
Written by: Jaki McCarrick
Directed by: Rhiann Jeffrey
Dates: 19 - 22 Nov 2025
Times: 15:00 | 20:00
Naughton Studio
For and Against Irish Unification
Book Launch
Join Sam McBride and Fintan O’Toole as they debate one of the most urgent questions of our time: should Ireland be united? A thought-provoking event on history, identity, and the island’s future.
Date: 17 Nov 2025 | Times: 19.00
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Back by popular demand! Join us at the Lyric Theatre for a magical return to Victorian Belfast as A Christmas Carol once again brings festive cheer, unforgettable performances, and heart-warming memories to audiences of all ages.
Nobody hates Christmas more than the selfish miser Ebenezer Scrooge. But on a cold Christmas Eve, he’s taken on an extraordinary journey through time that presents him with an opportunity to face his past — and change the future — before time runs out.
Under Jones’ masterful touch, this beloved, big-hearted tale is brought to life with wit, music and merriment, promising an unforgettable theatrical experience for audiences young and young-at-heart. From the chilling visits from the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come, to the jubilant spirit of redemption and goodwill, every moment on stage is filled with magic and wonder.
With an incredible ensemble cast using the pure magic of theatre to create the sounds, music, characters and settings of Victorian Belfast, A Christmas Carol will take you on an unforgettable journey, so add a little magic to your festive season with a visit to the Lyric.
Whether it’s your very first Christmas show, or a Lyric family tradition, this wonderful live theatre experience will make magic memories for you and your loved ones.
A Lyric Theatre Production
BahHumbug!
Adapted by: Marie Jones
Director: Matthew McElhinney
Composer, Sound Designer & Musical Director: Garth McConaghie
Set Designer: Stuart Marshall
Lighting Designer: Mary Tumelty
Choreographer: Fleur Mellor
Costume Designer: Catherine Kodicek
Date: 28 Nov - 10 Jan 2026
Times: Various
Main Stage
This is a Must see this Christmas Love Belfast
Beutifully presented version of the much-loved Christmas epiphany
The Stage
COUNT MAGNUS
