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Tom Hanks set to host New York Irish Rep Theater’s fundraiser (IrishCentral)

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:48:17 PDT

By: Irish Voice Reporters

The Irish Repertory Theatre in New York has scored quite a coup for its annual gala fundraiser next month – two time Oscar winner Tom Hanks, currently starring in the Broadway megahit Lucky Guy, will act as host of the party.

A rock and read - An evening at the Irish Rep Theater (IrishCentral)

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:16:58 PST

The Irish Repertory Theatre gears up for March Madness 2013March Madness takes on a new meaning for the Irish and for myself in particular As you may have read in these pages, I have launched my new book, This Is Your Brain on Shamrocks2: 50 Shades o’ Green and I will be kicking things off in New York with an evening of rocking and reading at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York on Tuesday, March 5 at 7 pmOne of the great things about this job is that you get a ringside seat to the best and brightest talent in the Irish American arts and entertainment circuit, and I do believe we have a stellar lineup READ MORE

Chicago theater company uses Natasha McShane’s brutal attack to highlight violence in the city (IrishCentral)

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:14:14 PST

By: IrishCentral Staff Writers

A new theatrical production in Chicago has taken inspiration from the brutal attack on Irish student Natasha McShane.

A Phil Coulter Christmas at the Irish Rep Theater - “Songs I Loved So Well” (IrishCentral)

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:16:22 PST

Phil CoulterPhil Coulter is giving his New York fans a special treat for the holidays with a run of concerts he has called The Songs I Love So Well at the Irish Repertory Theater on West 22nd Street which begin on Thursday, November 29Of course, the songs he has written are ones we love so well "My Boy," "Home from the Sea," "The Man from God Knows Where," "Keep a Candle in the Window," and his signature "The Town I Loved So Well" will be woven into the show, along with holiday songs “as that time draws nearer,” according to the man himself This legendary musician and producer is seeing a career resurgence, thanks to the runaway success of the Celtic Thunder and its series of shows READ MORE

Artists lend their helping hands for Sandy victims at the Irish Rep Theater (IrishCentral)

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:01:20 PST

Irish Repertory TheatreFor those who spend time with musicians, you know that they are usually the first responders when it comes to donating their time and talents for any kind of a benefit It’s no surprise that many are willing to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy and other causesComing up on Monday night at the Irish Repertory Theatre in Chelsea is a major benefit organized on behalf of the Mercy Centre (mercycentreorg) in Bangkok founded by Father Joe Maier who rescues innocent children from the street culture and sex trade neighborhoods and provides safe homes and education for them READ MORE

Brian Friel’s powerful “Freedom of the City” comes to New York’s Irish Rep Theater (IrishCentral)

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:47:31 PDT

By: MICHELLE K SMITH

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’s Irish Rep theater announces its fall schedule - Brian Friel, Julian Sands, Phil Coulter and more (IrishCentral)

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:21:21 PDT

By: JANE WALSH

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.

Irish SXSW award winning horror movie “Citadel” set for US theater distribution - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:19:15 PDT

By: CATHY HAYES

Irish horror movie Citadel won big at this year’s South by Southwest Festival (SXSW), picking up the Midnighters Audience Award. To top off this already impressive feat, the movie was recently picked up for US theater distribution by Cinedigm, and for DVD/Blu-Ray distribution by New Video.

Who Speaks for Ireland? Rebel voices in “Blood” & “Dancing at Lunacy” (IrishCentral)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:00:14 PDT

The sign at The Cell Theater entrance warns “TONIGHT’S PERFORMANCE OF ‘BLOOD’ AND ‘DANCING AT LUNACY’ CONTAINS THE SOUNDS OF GUNFIRE”Take that as a sign that there’ll be none of the season’s shamrock and leprechaun sentimentality, so brace yourself for a riveting duet of dramas on rebellious Ireland, each built around a trio of all-too-human, and in one case, quite inhuman, revolutionaries “Blood” by rocking Renaissance man Larry Kirwan, conjures a likely scenario for a mystery of the history in the run-up to the 1916 Easter Rising, while the aptly named “Dancing at Lunacy” tells of a helter-skelter clash of IRA operatives in an illegal drinking club in Belfast of 1984The opener, “Blood,” is a story of three key historical figures of the Easter Rising told in three scenes, the first brief vignette set in 1916 in Kilmainham Jail where, bound to a chair, is James Connolly (Ciaran Byrne)--common man, communist, head of the Irish Citizen Army—ruing the day he allied with his co-conspirators in the failed Easter Rising, cursing the Irish people who failed to rally to the cause:“Shower of bastards - spittin' at us and spatterin' us with horseshite as we were frog-marched out of the GPO and into this hellhole!”Scene Two goes the heart of the drama, a flashback to 1913 when Connolly disappeared, held in secret for three days by the rival Irish Republic Brotherhood READ MORE

Eugene O’Neill’s “Beyond the Horizon” lights up the Irish Rep’s stage (IrishCentral)

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:55:25 PST

By: CAHIR O'DOHERTY

Irish writers have always shined a bright light into the darkest parts of human nature. In this sense Eugene O’Neill, although born in New York and raised in Connecticut, is an Irish writer of the first order, because literally nothing escapes his lighthouse gaze.

A cell for Irish theater - “Blood” and “Dancing at Lunacy” (IrishCentral)

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:30:20 PST

Some interesting theater rolls into Manhattan this week, courtesy of one of our favorite rockers!The Cell Theatre (338 West 23rd Street; 646-861-2253) combines the one-act plays of Black 47’s Larry Kirwan and Seamus Scanlon, writer of Irish short stories, into an evening of provocative, inimitably Irish theaterKirwan’s Blood is based on the actual disappearance of James Connolly, trade union organizer and leader of the Irish Citizen Army on January 19, 1916 He returned four days later, his only comment, “I have been through hell” Connolly had been captured by the rival Irish Republican Brotherhood, led by Padraig Pearse and Sean McDermott READ MORE

Chris Christie calls gay rights struggle 'theater' (IrishCentral)

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:45:17 PST

Yesterday New Jersey's Senate approved marriage equality for same sex couples The bill passed by a wider than expected marginBut Governor Chris Christie has promised to veto it when it comes to his desk on Thursday, contemptuously calling the vote ' a bunch of good theater'Theater? To who, Governor? Not to the tens of thousands of people living in your own state READ MORE

Gabriel Byrne to present Eugene O’Neill Award to Irish Rep theater founders (IrishCentral)

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:51:57 PDT

By: JANE WALSH

Gabriel Byrne will present the Irish American Writer's & Artists annual Eugene O'Neill Lifetime Achievement Award to Irish Rep founders Charlotte Moore and Ciarán O'Reilly, in an evening of "literary libation."

Black 47’s Larry Kirwan explores in his new play 'Rebel in the Soul' (IrishCentral)

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 05:15:27 PDT

Larry KirwanBlack 47’s Larry Kirwan is internationally known as a rock ‘n’ roll rebel, but he is no stranger to the theater as wellHis play, 'Liverpool Fantasy,' a humorous take on the Beatles if they had broken up immediately and tried to reunite, was a hit in DublinNow he returns with a play of a different sort 'Rebel in the Soul' deals with the confrontation in 1951 between Dr READ MORE

A history lesson on stage at the Irish Arts Center (IrishCentral)

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 05:15:22 PDT

Irish Arts CenterThere is another star-studded post-graduate seminar in store for New York City area residents thanks to the Irish Arts Center and Dr Mick Moloney coming up on Thursday, October 13 at Symphony Space at 8 pmThe history lesson this time is an entertaining look at the early musical theater popularized in New York City late in the 19th century spilling over into the early 20th century that preceded Broadway as we know it READ MORE

Moved by movement - Irish Rep’s ‘Noctu’ is mesmerizing - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:10:27 PDT

Noctu at the Irish Rep in New YorkI just saw the most incredible performance -- the kind of thing that completely takes you out of your headI rarely used the overused word but here it is, "mesmerizing" It was so unexpected because I didn't know what to expect Noctú, an Irish word that you are going to have to look up, is an Irish dance group in New York as part of the Imagine Ireland series READ MORE

Family, funerals and a witch (IrishCentral)

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:10:29 PDT

Illustration by Caty Bartholomew Meandering merrily away this week, I find myself in Listowel trying to meet brother Mickie and, as always, discovering that he, like myself, is rarely at home in the summerMaura tells me he is down in John B Keane's pub for one of the pub theater nights there, feeds me with a mighty fry and all the Kerry news, and releases me into the evening againThe aura and spirit of John B READ MORE

Make us proud Denis Leary - 10 years after 9/11 the finale of "Rescue Me" - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:10:09 PDT

Ten years ago this week Legally Blonde, starring Reese Witherspoon, was about to hit movie theaters, as was Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes remake Another remake, “Lady Marmalade,” by Christina Aguilera, L’il Kim and Pink, was one of the top hits on the radioIt is also believed that 10 years ago this week, 9/11 hijacker Mohammad Atta flew off to Spain to meet with fellow terrorist Ramzi bin al-Shibh, where they were finalizing plans for an attack that would change the course of world history, and to this day weighs upon thousands and thousand of families from Washington, DC READ MORE

Archbishop Timothy Dolan takes another swing at the New York Times (IrishCentral)

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 04:30:19 PDT

Archbishop Timothy Dolan is taking another swing at the New York Times Around this time last year, Dolan took to his blog to excoriate the Times for four articles and columns he considered anti-Catholic (The public editor Clark Hoyt responded) This time, Dolan is calling out the paper for covering an art show and a play which he says denigrate Catholics READ MORE

Brooklyn Studio Lab brings cult classic Edward Scissorhands to the stage (IrishCentral)

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:00:08 PDT

Growing up in the nineties, I loved Tim Burton and I loved Johnny Depp and I absolutely loved when the two came together to personify the ultimate goth-chic aesthetic I can't tell you how many times I've watched Edward Scissorhands, only that I had a copy of the VHS long before I bought the DVD It's a fantastic movie, surreal and satirical and truly beautiful as a modern fable When I heard that the Brooklyn Studio Lab was bringing the classic to the stage, I was skeptical, to say the least, but also intrigued READ MORE