Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Lyric | History Defined

A peace process thriller, the DUP opera and countless cuppas: Belfast’s Lyric theatre at 75

What began as a tiny space above the founder’s stables became the beating heart of the city’s performing arts. Its leader Jimmy Fay reflects on recent hits and reveals what audiences can expect from the theatre’s anniversary year

The Guardian - UK

Boss of theatre hosting Chinese dance group Shen Yun in Sydney won’t be intimidated by ‘outrageous’ threats

Boss of theatre hosting Chinese dance group Shen Yun in Sydney won’t be intimidated by ‘outrageous’ threats

Graeme Kearns, chief executive of Foundation Theatres, says: ‘Our job in theatre is to absolutely defend the right to tell stories about culture’

The Guardian - AU

The Weeknd Strikes Landmark Catalog Partnership Valued Near $1 Billion While Retaining Full Creative Control

The Weeknd Strikes Landmark Catalog Partnership Valued Near $1 Billion While Retaining Full Creative Control

The Weeknd partners with Lyric Capital Group in a groundbreaking catalog deal through 2025, retaining full creative control and joining his billion-dollar tour and catalog milestones.

International Business Times

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

inkl

The Weeknd strikes landmark catalogue partnership with Lyric Capital Group

The Weeknd has landed a first-of-its-kind catalogue deal with Lyric Capital Group said to be worth more than $1 billion.

Dracula at the Lyric Hammersmith review: Umi Myers is magnetic in this clever feminist take on the classic

4/5 There are plenty of scary moments in this reworking that asks whether vampires or the patriarchy are the real monsters

Evening Standard

Peter James obituary

Innovative artistic director at theatres including the Liverpool Everyman, the Sheffield Crucible and the Lyric, Hammersmith

The Guardian - UK

Marriage Material at the Lyric Hammersmith review: a raucously funny and often moving family saga

4/5 Even when it stretches plausibility – those wigs! – this sprawling immigrant aspiration story is a pleasure to watch

Evening Standard

inkl

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Letter: Philip Lowrie obituary

Letter: Philip Lowrie obituary

Richard Digby Day writes: Working with Philip Lowrie was always a creative pleasure and I remember him with great affection

The Guardian - UK

Smashing Pumpkins classic Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness to be turned into an opera for 30th anniversary

Smashing Pumpkins classic Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness to be turned into an opera for 30th anniversary

Chicago's Lyric Opera to host 'A Night Of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness' for seven nights in November

A Raisin in the Sun at the Lyric Hammersmith review: a delight and a revelation

A revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s pioneering 1959 play has been a long time coming: this is magisterial

Evening Standard

‘It’s a tragedy because everyone dies – not because he’s disabled’: the creatives casting Richard III in a new light

‘It’s a tragedy because everyone dies – not because he’s disabled’: the creatives casting Richard III in a new light

The Lyric theatre Belfast’s new take on Richard III is produced by, and stars, disabled people. But bringing fresh authenticity to Shakespeare’s storied tragedy was not without its challenges

The Guardian - UK

Fangirls at Lyric Hammersmith review: raucous Aussie musical is a bittersweet celebration of fandom

The hit show from Australia raises sharp and sensitive observations, but never quite transcends its own daft plot

Evening Standard

‘I loved every single word’: tributes to the blistering brilliance of Edward Bond

‘I loved every single word’: tributes to the blistering brilliance of Edward Bond

Marianne Faithfull, Simon Callow, Tanya Moodie, Richard McCabe and Sean Holmes remember working with the remarkable British playwright who died on Sunday

The Guardian - UK

Lyric Opera’s ‘Daughter of the Regiment’ a romp rich with laughs and some of Donizetti’s best music

Lyric Opera’s ‘Daughter of the Regiment’ a romp rich with laughs and some of Donizetti’s best music

Dandy cast and nimble chorus keep up with the exacting, energetic staging.

Chicago Sun-Times

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Minority Report drama to feature in Lyric Hammersmith’s ‘really bold’ spring lineup

Tom Cruise’s character becomes Dame Julia in a new adaptation of Minority Report, kicking off a season that, the venue’s artistic director says, will focus on communal experience

Chicago Sun-Times

Lyric Opera’s SoundShirt — a new way deaf, hearing-impaired patrons can experience music

The technology is the first of its kind at any opera house in the world.

Chicago Sun-Times

Anthony Freud, Lyric Opera president and CEO, to retire next year

‘Working with Lyric has, for me, been the honor and thrill of a lifetime,’ the U.K. native says.

Chicago Sun-Times

Renata Scotto, world-renowned Italian soprano, dies at 89

Scotto made her U.S. debut at Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1960, followed by 314 appearances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York from her debut in 1965 to her finale in 1987.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Douglas Heap obituary

Other lives: Theatrical designer who created sets for theatres in the West End and on Broadway

Chicago Sun-Times

Grand ‘West Side Story’ revival proves there’s a place for musical theater at the opera house

Propulsive Lyric Opera staging of the masterpiece pays careful attention to shaping the characters.

The National (Scotland)

Ayrshire burger chain closes all its restaurants as business collapses

BURGER chain Meat in the Middle have closed down their restaurants in Ardrossan, Ayr, Kilmarnock and Cumnock.

Chicago Sun-Times

Interwoven short operas in ‘Proximity’ inform and confound but ultimately astound at Lyric Opera

Lyric deserves enormous credit for embracing this undertaking and going all in both in terms of scale and daring. It is, by any measure, a major event.

Chicago Sun-Times

At Lyric Opera, ‘Proximity’ is quite possibly an unprecedented approach to short opera trilogies

In a radical departure, the three new operas featured in ‘Proximity’ are not being treated as stand-alone pieces presented in succession, but are interwoven.

Drama of the Good Friday Agreement discussions to take centre stage in new play

The play will focus on what went on away from the public eye during the negotiations

Chicago Sun-Times

Characters don’t always connect in Lyric’s straightforward and suitably grand ‘Carmen’ revival

Ryan Opera Center grad J’Nai Bridges brings fiery stage presence and a stunning voice to her signature role, but her performance does not completely click.

1 2

People

Leonard Bernstein

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

inkl

Organisations

Smashing Pumpkins

the Royal Court

the Metropolitan Opera

Lyric Hammersmith

Lyric Opera of Chicago

inkl

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

415,076 stories

Northern Ireland

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.

Download on the AppStore

Get it on Google Play