The Lyric Players' Theatre, more commonly known as
The Lyric Theatre, or simply
The Lyric, is the main full-time producing theatre in
Belfast,
Northern Ireland. The theatre was first established as the Lyric Players in 1951 at the home of its founders Mary and Pearse O’Malley in Derryvolgie Ave., off the
Lisburn Road, and moved to its current home on Ridgeway Street in 1968.
Austin Clarke had laid the foundation stone of the property in 1965.