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Nuala Osborne and Aidan Hughes as Christine and the Phantom rehearsing for Portrush Music Society's production of The Phantom of the Opera.

In pictures: Phantom of the Opera rehearsals with Portrush Music Society

Cast and creative team announced for Northern Ireland’s biggest Christmas panto! Pictured in last years show are May McFettridge as Fairy May and Paddy Jenkins as Baron Hardup in Cinderella 2022

Tickets going fast as cast and creative team revealed for NI’s biggest panto

The Omniplex Northern Ireland is offering reduced admission tickets on National Cinema Day, September 2

Fancy seeing Oppenheimer and Barbie at an Omniplex cinema for £3?

Nathaniel Curtis, Louisa Lytton, Charlene Boyd and Joe Absolom will star in 2:22 - A Ghost Story which will arrive at Belfast's Grand Opera House in November as part of a UK-wide tour

Supernatural thriller that has previously starred Lily Allen set for Belfast run

Comedian Micky Bartlett's mini-tour will see the standup perform at Londonderry’s Millennium Forum on October 7 plus the Waterfront Hall in Belfast on October 13 and November 17, 2023. Tickets available from Ticketmaster.ie and Millennium Forum box office

Standup Micky Bartlett announces new Waterfront Hall date

Turin Brakes Olly Knights, Gale Paridjanian, Rob Allum and Eddie Myer, return to Stendhal this summer 13 years after headlining the very first festival in 2011. Credit J Hayes

Stendhal hail return of first ever headliners Turin Brakes

Lizzo will perform the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury on Saturday night. The singer's set time is 7.30pm to 8.30pm

Watch Glastonbury coverage on TV tonight

Joshua Burnside presents ‘Folk in the East’ with a special concert on August 4 at the Harland & Wolff Staff Club, Belfast

Enjoy top entertainment at EastSide Arts Festival 2023

See punk legends The Stranglers when they perform at Belfast's Ulster Hall as part of a tour marking an incredible 50-years in the music industry. Tickets available now from Ticketmaster.ie and via the Ulster Hall box office

Punk legends The Stranglers set for Ulster Hall

Mike Scott will perform as part of the Belfast International Arts Festival when The Waterboys take to the stage at Belfast's Grand Opera House

Mike Scott, Moroccan acrobats and Marc Almond set for Belfast fest

Popular NI stand-up Colin Geddis is set to perform his 'Overkill' show at Belfast's SSE Arena having already previously sold out the venue on several other previous occasions

Stand-up Colin Geddis confirms new SSE Arena date

Tony, Doc and Chris Taplin help launch the 14th Belfast City Blues Festival which will feature over 40 musical artists performing in over 15 venues June 23-25, 2023

Get set for Belfast City Blues Fest, June 23-25

Ger Ryan in The Beauty Queen of Leenane now running at Belfast's Lyric Theatre. PIC: Carrie Davenport

Martin McDonagh's dark comedy opens at Lyric

Four Men and a Dog are one of over 40 artists performing as part of the fifth edition of Belfast TradFest

City prepares for fifth edition of Belfast TradFest

Olly Murs will perform at the culmination of the Live at Botanic Gardens music festival on June 10. The line-up begins tonight (May 26) with a performance by all-girl chart-bothering pop group the Sugababes

Sugababes and Olly Murs to play Live at Botanic Gardens

White Doves, a unique ballet "without a tutu in sight" intends to examine the origins of the Peace People Movement in NI in 1976, symbolising its advocates as the titular doves . The imaginative and modernist-style dance production can be enjoyed at the MAC in Belfast this August. For tickets visit themaclive.com

Unconventional ballet White Doves to pay tribute to Peace People movement
White Doves presented by Six Dance Collective will be performed at the popular city multi-arts venue, August 3-5, 2023

Cara Dillon

Homecoming Queen Cara ready for Stendhal

NI singer/songwriter Cheryl Ann has just released the music video for her new single, which is already being touted as a serious contender for 2023 summer anthem

Cheryl-Ann's single Young Forever could be 2023 summer anthem

Comedian Rhys James, 32, who has appeared on Mock the Week and Live at the Apollo, will bring his 'Spilt Milk' show to Belfast's Limelight in November

Critcially acclaimed standup set for Belfast's Limelight

Glen Wallace as punk godfather Terri Hooley and Jayne Wisener as Ruth Carr in the Lyric Theatre's Good Vibrations which is now running at Belfast's Grand Opera House on May 20. For tickets visit www.goh.co.uk.

Vision of an alternative Ulster full of teenage ticks and 1970s punk at GOH

A representation of the stage for the Coronation Concert where stars including Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, Take That, Freya Ridings, Andrea Bocelli and others will perform. It is uniquely coloured in patriotic red, white and blue and the stage will fan out into the audience and have a halo-like screen surrounding the roof, which the BBC has said will "symbolise the Crown protecting the nation".

From Katy Perry to Andrea Bocelli: Coronation Concert packed with top talent

Standup and BBC NI's The Blame Game panellist Neil Delamere, 44, who hails from Edenderry in Co Offaly and is known for his razor-sharp wit will bring his new show 'Neil by Mouth' to Belfast's SSE Arena. Tickets are available from Friday May 5 from 10am via Ticketmaster.ie

Comic will take his 'Neil by Mouth' show to Belfast's SSE Arena

Catch The Undertones in concert as they mark 45 years of Teenage Kicks with gigs at the Millennium Forum, Londonderry and Belfast's Telegraph building this November. Tickets are now available via Ticketmaster.ie

Undertones to play Belfast and Derry to mark 45 years of Teenage Kicks

True Tides release new single 'All We Got Is War' on April 28 and are confirmed to play support for Olly Murs at his Botanic Gardens gig in June

Synth-pop act True Tides to support Olly Murs at Belfast gig

Singer/songwriter Noah Reid is also an accomplished actor

Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter set for Belfast's Limelight

Jazz pianist Scott Flanigan is set to perform at Armagh's Market Place Theatre

Top jazz pianist to wow at Armagh theatre

World-renowned Dutch violinist Andre Rieu

Andre Rieu's annual summer Maastricht concert to be screened in selected cinemas
His 2023 Maastricht Concert, to be screened internationally, has been billed as ‘annual summer music cinema event of the year’

Snow Patrol's Nathan Connolly has released his debut album The Strange Order of Things and announced a date at Belfast's Limelight 2 in June

Snow Patrol's Nathan Connolly releases solo album and announces Belfast gig

Guitarist Dom Martin will perform at the festival

Eclectic mix of genres explored at Ards International Guitar Festival

Musicians during a jamming session at last year's festival

Enjoy improvised jazz and more in Maiden City

Millisle musician Taylor Lally is this year’s Artist in Residence at the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival. Taylor will be playing throughout the festival and is joined by Sister Sledge, Badly Drawn Boy, Zandra Rhodes, Paul Brady and more in a packed programme over 11 days (Pic by Bernie McAllister)

Cornucopia of entertainment on the bill for 23rd Cathedral Quarter Arts Fest

The Lisburn Ukes at the Belfast Barge

Top notch entertainment aboard the Belfast Barge

Rising comedy star William Thompson is set to perform at Belfast's Ulster Hall on November 4 with tickets available from ticketmaster.ie now

William Thompson dealing with the 'hand he's been dealt' with new standup show

JP Cooper will play at Belfast's Limelight on September 16, 2023, with tickets now available

Manchester-born troubadour JP Cooper touring with second album SHE

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - OCTOBER 25: Chris Martin of Coldplay performs during the first of ten shows as part of 'Music Of The Spheres World Tour' at Estadio Mas Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti on October 25, 2022 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Santiago Bluguermann/Getty Images). The concert is set to be screened at Belfast's Cineworld in a uniquely immersive way

Uniquely immersive cinematic experience of Coldplay concert at Cineworld

Hal Cruttenden has his pooch and other consolations as he faces the pain of divorce in his 50s and gets us all laughing about it

Standup laughs through pain of divorce in middle age with new show

The drive-in cinema at Titanic Slipways will return as part of the Belfast Film Festival allowing you to catch The Incredibles, Labyrinth and Blade Runner on April 22

Catch Labyrinth and Blade Runner at Titanic Slipways drive-in cinema

Belfast’s waterfront venue is officially open with an enhanced food and drink offering, a new name and news of new arrival Lost City Golf. Pictured are Guy Hollis from Matagorda2 and Nicky Finnieston, Finch co-founder

Top Waterfront venue opens with new name and news of Lost City Golf arrival

Busted to play Belfast's SSE Arena on October 8 as part of their 20th anniversary tour

Punk-pop hitmakers Busted confirm date at Belfast's SSE Arena

Brendan B Brown is frontman of American rock outfit Wheatus, who remain best known for their 2000 hit single Teenage Dirtbag

Good news for all you lovers of Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus

Jo Donnelly (extreme left) joins cast of outrageous new satire Vote DLA, which is the final part of the Dundonald Liberation Trilogy

Satirical comedy is the final saga in the Dundonald Liberation Army trilogy

The late, great Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)

Tenth anniversary of death of Seamus Heaney marked by writers and musicians

Irish rockers Kodaline are set to play Belfast's Custom House Square in August

Rockers Kodaline confirm Custom House Square gig

Lukas Nelson & POTR will perform at Belfast's Ulster Hall on June 22 with tickets now available both via Ticketmaster and the Ulster Hall box office

Catch Americana, country-inspired Lukas Nelson & POTR at Belfast's Ulster Hall

Ricky Gervais will take his Armageddon World Tour to Dublin's 3Arena on July 11, 2023

Ricky Gervais announces date at Dubli's 3Arena as part of Armageddon tour

Picture This are set to perform at Belfast's SSE Arena

Picture This to release new album and play SSE Arena

The always ultra-cool Chrissie Hynde

Catch Chrissie Hynde in hyper-cool action at Belfast's Limelight

The multi-talented singer/songwriter Norah Jones

Grammy-winner Norah Jones poised for November date at Waterfront Hall

The inimitable Foy Vance will perform two concerts at Belfast's Waterfront Hall alongside the Ulster Orchestra in August

Foy Vance to delight fans with two concerts playing alongside Ulster Orchestra

In May 2022, Earle released his most recent album Jerry Jeff, a 10-track collection comprised of hit tracks and deep-cuts from Jerry Jeff Walker to pay tribute to the colourful cowboy troubadour who passed away in October 2021

Americana musical maestro Steve Earle to play Ulster Hall

Sam Claridge and Corey Montague-Sholey in The Trumpet & The King

Historical play about Henry VIII and friend navigating journey to adulthood

Comedy legends Colin Murphy, Paddy McDonnell and Ryan Andrews. The Empire Laughs Back joins forces with Harp Lager to take the famous comedy night on tour across Northern Ireland

Colin Murphy and Paddy Raff to perform as The Empire Laughs Back goes on tour

Video: New nine screen luxury cinema which opens tomorrow is just the ticket

The inimitable Stiff Little Fingers

Belfast punks Stiff Little Fingers confirm second Custom House Square gig

Glee actor, Damian McGinty

There's no place like home for NI's Brooke and Damian