World-famous neurologist and best-selling author Oliver Sacks has claimed that renowned playwright Brian Friel borrowed an article he wrote ‘word of word’ in one of his most famous plays.

In Irish playwright Brian Friel's uncharacteristically furious drama The Freedom of the City, now playing at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York, the long and tragic conflict between Ireland and Britain is presented as lucidly as you're ever likely to see.

Brian Friel’s 1974 Broadway play “The Freedom of the City”, directed by Ciaran O’Reilly, is set for an October run at the Irish Repertory Theater in New York.

New York Irish Center in Queens in collaboration with the Irish Repertory Theatre is set to host an evening of performance and cinema.

Off-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre has launched its 25th Anniversary Season with Brian Friel's “The Freedom of the City” with previews set to begin October 3.

In memory everything seems to happen to music wrote Tennessee Williams once. It was an observation based on what he called the heart’s natural desire to embroider the past, and it must have inspired Ireland’s greatest living playwright Brian Friel in the process of writing Dancing at Lughnasa, his most accessible, heartfelt and yet cerebral play.

The story that unfolds in this remarkable book, Brian Friel: Theatre and Politics by Anthony Roche, is the artistic life of a man of uncompromising standards, incredible courage and restless inquiry.

Brian Friel’s memory play Dancing at Lughnasa has lost none of its magic since it first premiered in 1990. Now a celebrated local production of the play is open at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls, New York, and it provides the public with another opportunity to experience Friel’s magic.

Mark your calendars: tomorrow and Saturday Manhattan’s Irish Arts Center and Glucksman Ireland House at NYU will host a remarkable two day tribute to Brian Friel, the undisputed master of Irish drama, in honor of his 80th birthday.