Lyric Theatre, Belfast

"[2] The theatre's current Executive Producer is Jimmy Fay,[3] previously the founder and Artistic Director of Bedrock Productions.

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.

[10] The Lyric's current Chair is Sir Bruce Robinson[11] who took over in January 2015 from BBC Northern Ireland journalist Mark Carruthers,[12] who received an OBE at Buckingham Palace on 25 March 2011, in recognition of his leadership of the theatre at a highly critical time in its development.

This was the occasion, and the Lyric was the chosen site, for a public meeting between Queen Elizabeth II and Martin McGuinness, Deputy First Minister for the Northern Ireland Assembly and a former commander of the IRA.

[13] In October 2018, as part of the theatre's 50th anniversary on the Stranmillis site, that theme of being "a shared place, a crossroads between communities" was marked at a symposium and over a weekend of celebratory events with the Irish Times noting the Lyric was a cultural bridge in a divided city.

[14] In 2023 the theatre reported an overall annual audience of over 90,000 people and having engaged close to 13,000 school children as part of the Creative Learning programme.