{"id":17579,"date":"2019-07-16T18:01:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T17:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=17579"},"modified":"2019-07-16T18:01:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T17:01:35","slug":"belfast-blues-lyric-theatre-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2019\/07\/belfast-blues-lyric-theatre-belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast Blues, Lyric Theatre Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Geraldine Hughes has launched the final homecoming of her critically acclaimed show Belfast Blues for one week only this August at the Lyric Theatre<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Having just wrapped a year on Broadway in Harry Potter and\nthe Cursed Child, Belfast actress Geraldine Hughes is coming to the Lyric\nTheatre with her smash hit one woman show Belfast Blues!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belfast Blues is one \u2018wee girls\u2019 story about family, war,\nJesus, and Hollywood.  Geraldine Hughes\u2019\none-woman show is a tapestry of stories told from Hughes\u2019 perspective as a\nlittle girl coming of age in the war-torn Belfast of the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After award-winning runs in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago\nand London, the play is returning to her home city of Belfast for 6 nights\nonly. Belfast Blues is directed by Carol Kane, and is written and performed by\nGeraldine Hughes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviews:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Awe-inspiring” -Talking Broadway<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Outstanding” -LA Times  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A bravura performances” -London Morning Star  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Takes your breath away” -Chicago Sun Times<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geraldine Hughes on the show: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no audience better than a Belfast audience! It\u2019s\nsuch a privilege to play at the Lyric again, and thanks to Brassneck, I am\ndoing just that. I\u2019m so excited to share the story of Belfast Blues with a new\ngeneration of theatre goers and eager to re tell it to all those who are\nreturning! The support from home is truly incomparable!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geraldine Hughes has launched the final homecoming of her critically acclaimed show Belfast Blues for one week only this August at the Lyric Theatre. Having just wrapped a year on Broadway in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Belfast actress Geraldine Hughes is coming to the Lyric Theatre with her smash hit one woman show … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17581,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17579\/revisions\/17581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}