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Ballywillan Drama Group are excited to be transporting our audiences into a world of ‘Pure Imagination’ in January 2025 with the most delicious new musical… Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a golden ticket of musical theatre, featuring an outrageous ensemble with plenty of delicious, big musical numbers. Based on the famous novel by Roald […]

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In June of 2023 Ballywillan Drama Group staged one of our most successful musicals to date, KINKY BOOTS. How do you follow that? Well, we are bringing a major revival of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF to Northern Ireland for sixteen exclusive performances in April 2024. Last staged by Ballywillan fifteen years ago this spectacular musical event is […]

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Following on from our huge sell-out blockbuster KINKY BOOTS in June 2023, Ballywillan Drama Group return to the Riverside with a wonderfully funny play ANYONE FOR BREAKFAST? written by the master of comedy scripts Derek Benfield. ANYONE FOR BREAKFAST plays from Tue 23 until Sat 27 Jan 2024 at the Riverside Theatre, Coleraine. The play […]

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Ballywillan  Drama  Group return to the stage a few months after their hugely successful The Best of Broadway and the West End musical in the Riverside Theatre in January. But not to the Riverside stage………. This Easter, to celebrate the group’s 70th birthday, they are going back to Portrush Town Hall, where their first production […]

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From Tuesday 25  to  Saturday 29 January 2022, Ballywillan Drama Group are presenting a brand new musical show entitled THE BEST OF BROADWAY AND THE WEST END in the Riverside Theatre, Coleraine –  two hours of carefully selected numbers from some of the best musicals – from old favourites to the most up-to-date shows. Due to […]

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It is with sad hearts that we must announce the postponement of our musical, KINKY BOOTS, which was scheduled for January 2022 in the Riverside Theatre, Coleraine. The theatre management has informed us that they are awaiting improvement works to take place and until further notice are unable to host large-scale productions and those which […]

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Ballywillan Drama Group are delighted to hear that our Artistic Director, Brian Logan, has been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List with a British Empire Medal (BEM) for Services to Drama and the Performing Arts in Northern Ireland. With both his parents heavily involved in amateur dramatics, Brian’s interest and enthusiasm was fired from […]

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