1. When did you think about a career in comedy and what were your first steps into it? I never thought of comedy as a career but always loved going to see live comedy.

This is my home and country.

FINAL auditions recently over, the stage is now set for British Youth Music Theatre's (BYMT) latest reincarnation of Belfast author Tony Macaulay's "ordinary" childhood, with the much-anticipated Breadboy opening at the Lyric in July.

WE are all – society as a whole and herself included – a bit demented, muses Deirdre O'Kane, and once that axiom of humanity is accepted, all that is left is to sit back and "howl".

REVIEW Chicago Grand Opera House, Belfast Until Saturday June 11 IT'S not surprising that Chicago the Musical has been running round the world for almost 50 years.

Notes and musings from the arts scene as it looks forward to a new month, by Jane Hardy RIVERRUN, people.

"I MUST be a glutton for punishment" chuckles director Matthew McElhinney of his latest challenge – a revamped production of his mother Marie Jones's Olivier-winning play Stones In His Pockets, which brings the movie at the centre of the story to life via a 'trailer' packed with pre-recorded star cameos.

A HARD-hitting new play which tackles male-on-female violence during armed conflicts will make its live debut in Derry this week.