Robin & Jane In The Stalls

🎭 Robin & Jane In The Stalls | Episode 50 – Denouement at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre 🎭 This week, Robin & Jane step into the near future – or maybe the end of it – as they review John Morton’s Denouement, now running at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast until 15th November. It’s 2048, Armageddon is on the horizon, and Edel and Liam are spending their final hours together in a remote Irish farmhous...

🎭 Robin & Jane In The Stalls | Theatre Review Podcast 🎭 Episode Title: The Upside Down House – Tinderbox Theatre Company @ The MAC, Belfast This week, Robin & Jane are back in Belfast at The MAC to see Tinderbox Theatre Company’s brand-new production The Upside Down House — running until 2nd November. 💔 A first love story, one last time. Heartfelt, hilarious, and wildly imaginative, The...

The Belfast International Arts Festival is in full swing, and Robin & Jane are back In The Stalls with a brand new episode you won’t want to miss. This week, they shine the spotlight on “Ottilie” – the international premiere of a powerful one-woman show from Rathmore Productions, running at the Grand Opera House until 24th October. 🎤 Who was Ottilie Patterson? Blues trailblazer, international...

In this episode, Robin & Jane are back in the stalls as Belfast International Arts Festival kicks off! 🎉 They’ve just seen Unreconciled at the Lyric Theatre – a powerful and unforgettable solo play by Jay Sefton and Mark Basquil, directed by Geraldine Hughes. Set in Philadelphia, Unreconciled tells the true story of a young actor cast as Jesus in a school play run by a parish priest. What fol...

Robin & Jane are back in the stalls — and this week, they’re sleuthing their way through a gripping night at the theatre with Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts, now haunting Belfast’s Grand Opera House until Saturday! 👻 🕵️‍♂️ This first-ever stage adaptation of the legendary detective series brings a brand-new mystery to life: a young actress collapses mid-performance, and what begins as a rou...

🎭 Robin & Jane In The Stalls | Belfast International Arts Festival 2025 Preview | Theatre Review Podcast This week on a special episode of Robin & Jane In The Stalls, we're diving headfirst into one of the biggest cultural events on the calendar — the Belfast International Arts Festival! 🌍🎨🎶 As the festival prepares to take over the city from 14 October – 9 November, Robin and Jane pre...

Robin & Jane In The Stalls are back — and this week, they’re pitch-side at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre for a powerful new play: THE PITCH 🏐 Set in East Belfast, The Pitch tells the story of three unlikely friends — Robbie, Melissa, and Deren — whose lives collide on a patch of turf that means something different to each of them. Gaelic football, identity, culture, and community all clash and conn...

This week on Robin & Jane IN The Stalls, our favourite theatre-loving duo head behind bars at Belfast’s Grand Opera House for a gripping performance of The Shawshank Redemption — running until Saturday only! 🔒 Based on Stephen King's powerful novella, this stage adaptation takes us deep inside Shawshank prison, where injustice, resilience, and an unlikely friendship between Andy Dufresne and...

This week, Robin & Jane took their seats at Belfast's Lyric Theatre for Dear Arabella by the legendary Marie Jones – and wow, do they have thoughts! Three women. Three lives intertwined by love, regret, and the quiet power of a simple, random act of kindness. There's Jean, feeling the walls close in as she cares for her difficult mother… Elsie, still struggling to connect with the man her husb...

This week, Robin & Jane are donning their sequins and stepping into the hauntingly glamorous world of Follies, Northern Ireland Opera’s bold new production of the Sondheim classic at Belfast’s Grand Opera House. ✨ A crumbling theatre. 🕰️ A reunion decades in the making. 👻 Ghosts of the past — and songs you won’t forget. But here’s the question: Does this new take on the legendary 7-time Tony...

This week, our intrepid theatre reviewers Robin & Jane took their seats at The Sanctuary Theatre Belfast for Ulster American by East Belfast’s own David Ireland — and what a night it was!  A Hollywood actor. An ambitious English director. A Northern Irish playwright. The stage is set for collaboration… but egos, politics, and power struggles turn this dark comedy into a powder keg. How far wil...

This week on Robin & Jane In The Stalls, our dynamic theatre-loving duo took their seats at Belfast's Grand Opera House for one of the most beloved music tribute shows of our time — The Simon & Garfunkel Story. But did it live up to the global hype? 🌍🎶 With over 50 countries visited and more than 20 performances in London’s West End, including the legendary Palladium, The Simon & Gar...

This week on Robin & Jane In The Stalls, we’ve taken a trip to Belfast’s Grand Opera House to catch Mother Of All The Behans, starring the phenomenal Imelda May — and wow, what a night at the theatre!  Following two sell-out runs in Dublin, this one-week-only engagement in Belfast is not to be missed. Imelda May shines in this powerful and moving tribute to Kathleen Behan, mother to the legend...

This week on Robin & Jane In The Stalls, our intrepid theatre duo took their seats at Belfast’s Grand Opera House to catch the gripping new production of The Girl On The Train – and trust us, they’ve got thoughts 🎤👀 Adapted from Paula Hawkins’ international bestseller, this thriller takes us deep into the mind of Rachel Watson, whose daily train ride becomes anything but routine when she wit...

This week on Robin & Jane In The Stalls, we pack our factor 50 and head to sunny Spain (well... in spirit!) to review Holiday Flush by Rosemary Drama Group   Set in June 1982, this hilarious play sees two Belfast families jet off to the Costa Blanca in search of sun, fun, sangria… and maybe a Northern Ireland win against Spain in the World Cup! But of course, things don’t go quite to plan – wi...

This week on Robin & Jane In The Stalls, we're swapping the velvet seats for prison sheets as we head to Belfast’s Lyric Theatre for The Tunnel – running until 16th August! Set in Long Kesh Prison, 1976, The Tunnel is a gripping and deeply human drama. Academy Award-winning director Terry George teams up with Brassneck Theatre Company for the Irish premiere of this thrilling masterpiece  Escap...

This week on Robin & Jane In The Stalls, we’re heading to The MAC, Belfast, where Everybody’s Talking About Jamie — and trust us, you will be too! 💃🌈 Brought to the stage by the Alfie Boe James Huish Academy of Theatre Arts, this bold and beautiful production isn’t your average youth musical. Directed by James Huish, it’s a timely and heartfelt celebration of identity, courage, and self-expr...

This week on Robin & Jane In The Stalls, our dynamic duo don their fishnets and step into the time warp as they head to Belfast’s Grand Opera House to see the one and only Rocky Horror Show!  Following its sell-out run in August 2023, Richard O’Brien’s legendary rock ‘n’ roll musical is back — and it’s just as gloriously outrageous as ever! With over 35 million theatregoers worldwide, this cul...

This week Robin & Jane have been to The Mac to see the new play, What Did You Do For Ireland, Da? by Bronagh Diamond. The play tells the story of one family from the New Lodge Road and their 17 year-old son, Jamie as he struggles to make sense of his sexuality and the world around him.

To mark five years since the first lockdown, hapless freedom fighters, the Dundonald Liberation Army, are back with their sell-out, smash-hit comedy Lockdown DLA! Robin & Jane have been to The Mac this week as Davy "The Venezuelan" Taylor and his right-hand man John "Horse" McCracken are being forced to isolate together in their high-rise flat but what will our reviewers make of this?

The smash hit show Only Fools and Horses the Musical - direct from a record-breaking four-year sold-out run-in London’s West End has arrived at Belfast's Grand Opera House, starring comedy legend Paul Whitehouse as Grandad! But was this a truly cushty night out for Robin & Jane!

From Tudor Queens to Pop Princesses, the six wives of Henry VIII take to the mic to tell their tales, remixing five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an 80-minute celebration of 21st century girl power. SIX has arrived at The Grand Opera House, Belfast & Robin & Jane are In The Stalls!!

This week Robin & Jane step into a world of wit, charm, and sheer hilarity as The Importance of Being Earnest takes centre stage at Belfast's Lyric Theatre but how many handbags will our reviewers give this production?? The Importance Of Being Earnest runs until 6th July. Book your tickets here - https://lyrictheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-importance-of-being-earnest

This week Robin & Jane have been to The Mac to see Anthem For Dissatisfaction, a euphoric, working-class celebration of the power of live music, teenage angst, sibling rivalry and love in this electric and hilarious, coming-of-age anthem for anyone who ever wanted more.  Anthem For Dissatisfaction runs at The Mac until Saturday 7th June. And then: Playhouse, Derry - 11th June Marketplace, Arma...

Robin & Jane were brave enough to check out the UK Touring Production of Ghost Stories at Belfast's Grand Opera House! This truly terrifying theatrical experience was created by The League of Gentlemen’s Jeremy Dyson, and Andy Nyman, co-creator of Derren Brown’s television and stage shows. Ghost Stories mixes the very best of theatre with the buzz of a thrill-ride, delivering something truly u...