She was a down-to-earth girl from Belfast’s Donegall Road who reached the top of the showbiz ladder, but away from the glitz and glamour of the London Palladium there was a darker side to the Ruby Murray story.
Following its huge success at the Mac in Belfast last year, the showbands inspired play Keep Telling Me Lies is taking to the road to bring the golden age of the showbands to a town near you.
If you have any free time over the festive period and you are on the look out for a good night out, or somewhere to take the family, then take a look through some of our top choices of things to do this month,
Cre:8 Theatre Ltd in association with The Braid Arts Centre are delighted to be bringing ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ to Ballymena from December 13-27 with a number of evening and daytime performances planned over the Christmas period.
So-called ‘dark tourism’ sites (for example, the sites of tragedies) are drawing in more and more visitors each year, with holidaymakers looking to learn more about the more mysterious or even harrowing parts of history.
Award-winning theatre company, Sole Purpose Productions, is bringing their new play Mothers Out Front about climate change to a number of venues across the Northern Ireland later this month.
Direct from a week-long run in London’s West End and performing to sold out audiences in over 50 countries worldwide, The Simon and Garfunkel Story comes to Theatre at the Mill in June.
Thornhill College and Ebrington Primary School, Londonderry have been named as Northern Ireland’s top senior and junior school choirs in the live final of BBC Northern Ireland School Choir Of The Year.
