There’s still not much to see on the site of the old Lyric Theatre in Belfast’s Ridgeway Street. Work continues on the new building — but a lack of venue hasn’t deterred the Lyric from pressing on with its summer scheme.

For the first year ever, the scheme has been extended to include a week for young people aged 14-16. There’ll be a variety of artistic activities on offer, from drama and movement through to props and scenery making, and the week culminates in a performance for family and friends.

It all takes place in St Bartholomew’s Church Hall on Belfast’s Stranmillis Road.

This week has seen the junior scheme, attracting children up to the aged of 13.

Next week, it’s the turn of 14 to 16-year-olds, and from August 10, children aged eight to 10 years get their turn in the spotlight.

If you haven’t yet enrolled, go online at www.lyrictheatre.co.uk and see if they’ve still got room for a wee one.

And if you’d rather be entertained than entertaining, you’ll be heading to see Feile an Phobail’s Six of the Best — plays from half a dozen of theatre companies which will be staged over the coming week or so.

Kabosh Theatre Company is reviving Laurence McKeown’s Two Roads West — a mini drama set in the back of a taxi.

The audience of just five meets driver Bill and passenger Rosie on a journey between the Falls and Shankill Roads.

You’ll not see another play like it this year.

Book your seat up until August 8.

Aisling Ghear is presenting Synge’s The Shadow of the Glen until August 9 in An Culturlann. A tramp calls at Nora’s door, looking for shelter. Her husband has just died, and she’s looking for help...

Brenda Murphy’s A Night With George sounds a rather jollier affair, the George in question being one Mr Clooney. Brassneck Theatre Company takes up residence in the Roddy McCorley Social Club until next Friday, with this story about Bridie Murphy’s journey through life... accompanied by George.

There’s very little glamour in Rosemary Jenkinson’s urban drama Johnny Meister and the Stitch, which unfolds at St Louise’s College on the Falls Road until Wednesday, courtesy of Jigsaw Theatre Company.

Bobby Niblock’s A Reason to Believe will be performed in An Culturlann on Sunday and Monday — the comedy about two friends who’ve done everything together stars Ivan Little, Niall Cusack and Patricia Anderson.

Last but not least in this festival pick’n’mix is C21 Theatre Company’s Time Flies, four short comedies, on stage at St Mary’s College on the Falls Road from next Wednesday.

If you think we’ve never had it so good, dramatically speaking, you can compare and contrast with a blast from the past which opens at the Grand Opera House next week.

It’s been 25 years since Charabanc first burst on to the theatrical scene with Lay Up Your Ends, a drama about the 1911 Belfast linen mills strike.

Now Marie Jones is reprising her role as Belle in a new production directed by her husband, Ian McElhinney, and produced by Martin Lynch.

The show runs until Saturday, August 15.