Theatres · Northern Ireland
Lyric Theatre
Lyric Theatre is a theatre in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 2 h–3 h
- Nearest railway station
- Botanic · 1.3 km
- Wheelchair accessible
About
Lyric Theatre is a working theatre in the United Kingdom, listed in OpenStreetMap as a public performance venue. Coordinates: 54.5772°, -5.9309°.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Lyric Theatre, or simply The Lyric, is the principal, full-time producing theatre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In January 2023 it won The Stage's Theatre of the Year award in recognition of "its programme...as well as for its online festival of skills development sessions... and the their work to attract under-represented audiences through LGBT+ productions, as well as for their extensive education and outreach programme." The theatre's current Executive Producer is Jimmy Fay, previously the founder and Artistic Director of Bedrock Productions.
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Background
History
The theatre was first established as The Lyric Players in 1951 at the home of its founders Mary O'Malley and her husband Pearse in Derryvolgie Avenue, off the Malone Road, and moved to its new site on Ridgeway Street in 1968, between the Stranmillis Road and Stranmillis Embankment. The poet Austin Clarke laid the foundation stone in 1965 – a deliberate choice by O'Malley to build a link back to her artistic hero W. B. Yeats. In 1974 the theatre staged Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar, leading to protests. In 1976 Liam Neeson appeared in Brian Friel's Philadelphia Here I Come!. Neeson's association with the Lyric has continued since, and he is currently the theatre's patron.…
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- Coordinates
- 54.5772, -5.9309
- District
- Belfast
- Postcode
- BT9 5FB
- Parliamentary constituency
- Belfast South and Mid Down
- Nearest railway station
- Botanic — 1.3 km
- Official site
- lyrictheatre.co.uk
Sources
- osm: w195647586 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Lyric Theatre, Belfast (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Belfast (473), October 2009.JPG (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Lyric Theatre?
- Lyric Theatre is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.5772°, -5.9309°. The nearest railway station is Botanic, around 1.3 km away.
- Is Lyric Theatre wheelchair accessible?
- Yes — Lyric Theatre is tagged in OpenStreetMap as wheelchair-accessible.