Irish Repertory Theatre

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s A.J. Shively

From his Broadway roles in Bright Star, garnering a Drama Desk nomination, La Cage aux Folles, a benefit performance of Brigadoon, and Paradise Square, for which he received Tony and Outer Critics...

Funny and poignant inner conflicts of an Irish emigrant in ‘Philadelphia, Here I Come!’ Off-Broadway at Irish Rep

Off-Broadway’s acclaimed Irish Repertory Theatre continues the celebration of its 35th season with Philadelphia, Here I Come!, the third mainstage production in The Friel Project, a retrospective on...

Ecstasy turns to anger and doubt in ‘The Saviour’ at Off-Broadway’s Irish Rep

Now making its world stage premiere Off-Broadway in a limited summer engagement at Irish Repertory Theatre (following the work’s online streaming with the Cork Midsummer Festival and the Edinburgh...

Stellar cast delivers a potent ‘Endgame’ Off-Broadway at Irish Rep

Considered by Nobel Prize-winning Irish playwright Samuel Beckett to be his personal favorite and his masterpiece, Endgame, a one-act tragicomedy on the absurdity of existence, made its Off-Broadway...

A heartwarming Off-Broadway musical adaptation of ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ at Irish Rep

One of the most beloved works of prose by Welsh writer and poet Dylan Thomas (1914-53), A Child’s Christmas in Wales was begun in the 1940s, first recorded by the author for his BBC Radio broadcast in...

Into the mind of ‘The Butcher Boy’ in a world-premiere musical adaptation at Off-Broadway’s Irish Rep

In 2017, Irish Repertory Theatre was approached by Asher Muldoon (Dear Evan Hansen National Tour), then a senior in high school, with a new musical adaptation of Patrick McCabe’s unsettling 1992 novel...

A harrowing journey to Australia in Off-Broadway’s ‘Belfast Girls’ at Irish Rep

When the Irish Potato Blight – caused by an infectious fungus that spread throughout Europe – struck in 1845, it decimated the country’s staple crop, leading to food shortages and the Great Famine of...

Irish Rep brings its explosive pandemic-delayed production of ‘A Touch of the Poet’ back to the Off-Broadway stage

Originally scheduled to open in March 2020, Irish Repertory Theatre’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s A Touch of the Poet, postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic, made its appearance as a top-notch...

A musical melodramedy with a message in ‘The Streets of New York’ at Off-Broadway’s Irish Repertory Theatre

First presented at Off-Broadway’s Irish Repertory Theatre in 2002, in the aftermath of 9/11, The Streets of New York is back live on stage through the end of January in the company’s current...

9/11 tributes from Battery Dance and Irish Rep

On Saturday, September 11, Battery Dance and Irish Repertory Theatre will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, respectively, with a live and an...

Irish Rep revisits ‘George M. Cohan Tonight!’ in an abridged digital presentation

Legendary American actor, singer, dancer, composer, lyricist, playwright, and producer George M. Cohan (1878-1942) epitomized the multitude of skills and accomplishments of a multi-hyphenate long...

A concert, a reading, and a gala to start the week

An all-star concert, a classic reading, and an Off-Broadway gala number among the latest events streaming from NYC this week. Starting tonight, a star-studded line-up performs eponymous show tunes...

A new digital production of the old-fashioned ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’ from Irish Repertory Theatre

Off-Broadway’s Irish Repertory Theatre continues its 2020 online season with a new digital production of Meet Me in St. Louis, a show last presented on stage by the company in 2007. The familiar piece...

Bill Irwin’s acclaimed ‘On Beckett’ returns to Irish Repertory Theatre in a new virtual iteration

Off-Broadway’s Irish Repertory Theatre has come to the forefront during the coronavirus closure of live in-person performances with its prolific offerings of exceptional and varied virtual...

Not-to-be-missed streams from Broadway Podcast Network and Irish Repertory Theatre

Among the must-see digital offerings to take us into November are a serial podcast send-up of the soap-opera antics that go on with a Broadway musical-in-the-making, and a lesser-known drama by one of...

A poetic look at paintings from London’s National Gallery in ‘Give Me Your Hand’ by Irish Rep

Founded in 1824, and ranked seventh on the list of the world’s most visited art museums in 2019, The National Gallery in London is home to an encyclopedic collection of more than 2,300 world-famous...

Irish Repertory Theatre’s ‘Love, Noël’ pays tribute to ‘The Master’ Noël Coward

After the sold-out run of the Irish Repertory Theatre’s world-premiere Off-Broadway production of Love, Noël in the summer of 2019, the show has returned in a re-imagined digital reprise for the final...

Irish Repertory Theatre revisits ‘The Weir’ in a haunting new digital presentation

For the second installment of its online 2020 summer season, Off-Broadway’s Irish Repertory Theatre is presenting an all-new third-time revival of Dublin-born playwright Conor McPherson’s...

New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for 2020 to be announced on April 16

The New York Drama Critics’ Circle, founded in 1935, has been presenting its annual award for the Best New Play of the season since 1936, making it the second-oldest theater award after the Pulitzer...

An emotional elegy to love and art in ‘Incantata’ at Irish Repertory Theatre

Irish Repertory Theatre’s US premiere of Incantata, which made its acclaimed debut at the 2018 Galway International Arts Festival, is an emotion-packed elegy to the enchantment of love, life, and art...

A farcical look at ‘sex and station’ in 19th-century England with ‘London Assurance’ at Irish Repertory Theatre

When Dion Boucicault’s premiere farce London Assurance made its debut at Covent Garden in 1841, the 20-year-old Irish actor and playwright became an instant success in England, garnering immediate...

Review: ‘Dublin Carol’ at Irish Repertory Theatre

Now playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement at Irish Repertory Theatre, Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s Dublin Carol, which made its debut at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 2000, tells an old...

Review: ‘On a Clear Day You Can See Forever’ at Irish Repertory Theatre

Irish Repertory Theatre’s new production of the 1965 Broadway classic (and 1970 movie remake starring Barbra Streisand) On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, with music by Burton Lane and book and...

Review: ‘Woman and Scarecrow’ at Irish Repertory Theatre

Marking its first production of a work by the internationally-lauded Dublin-born playwright Marina Carr, Irish Repertory Theatre’s New York premiere of Woman and Scarecrow, potently directed by Ciaran...

Review: ‘The Seafarer’ at Irish Repertory Theatre

Mystic realism and metaphor meet the Irish gift of gab and a dire predilection for alcohol in Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer, a disturbingly dark and devilish comedy about lost souls, drunken...

Review: ‘The Home Place’ at Irish Repertory Theatre

Brian Friel’s play, The Home Place, has taken its time to find its way to New York, where it arrived in good hands at the newly renovated Irish Repertory Theatre off Broadway. The play premiered in...

Review: ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ at Quintessence Theatre

Family is everything according to Eugene O’Neill. The relationships you form as a child will haunt and guide all of your future life. Rebellion is a basic of the dynamic, and as much as O’Neill...

Review: ‘Uncle Vanya’ at Hedgerow Theatre

A group of people are seated at a dinner table. They discuss the weather. Meanwhile, their lives are falling apart. With the revealing use of subtext like this, Anton Chekhov and others introduced...

Review: ‘Any Given Monday’ at the Stagecrafters Theater

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh. Otherwise they’ll kill you. That quote, usually attributed to George Bernard Shaw, aptly describes Any Given Monday, a play by Philadelphia’s...

Review: Bedlam: ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Saint Joan’ at McCarter Theatre Center

There’s nothing extravagant about the two shows playing at the McCarter Theatre. Both are presented on a stage stripped to its bare essentials: we can see all the way back to the building’s rear wall....

Review: ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ at Colonial Players of Annapolis

This remarkable production of The Cripple of Inishmaan is a fantastic way to kick off Colonial Players’ new season, its 68th. Written by Martin McDonagh and directed by Dave Carter, it tells the story...

Review: ‘Shining City’ at The Irish Rep Theatre in NYC

It’s been only 10 years since Conor McPherson’s word fest of a play ran at the Biltmore Theatre for 101 performance including 21 previews. It was well received not only for the eloquence of the...

Review: ‘Wild Sky’ at Solas Nua

Exactly one century ago, on Easter Week 1916, Irish nationalists staged uprisings in Dublin and some surrounding areas in defiance of centuries of British rule, and in particular their conscription in...

Review: ‘Translations’ at Villanova University in Villanova, PA

One hundred years ago a group of Irish poets, musicians and classical scholars rebelled against English rule. The “Easter Uprising” was cruelly subdued by the occupying British, but this being...

J. Ernest Green on Musical Directing and Conducting ‘Finian’s Rainbow’ for Live Arts Maryland on 2/12&13

J. Ernest Green is musical directing Finian’s Rainbow at Live Arts Maryland on Friday and Saturday, February 12th and 13th. He talks here about the decision to mount the recent Broadway revival and...

Live Arts Maryland’s “Finian’s Rainbow” Performed on Friday, 2/12@7:30 PM & Sat 2/13 @3 and 8 PM

Live Arts Maryland presents Broadway in Annapolis: Finian’s Rainbow, Friday, February 12th at 7:30 PM and Saturday, February 13th at 3 PM and 8 PM at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts. With a dream...

Review: ‘Once’ at The Academy of Music in Philadelphia

Once is not your usual Broadway musical. From the moment you enter the theater, the inventive staging immediately breaks through the proverbial fourth wall, as you are physically drawn into the...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Can’t Complain’ at Spooky Action Theater

Over the course of the fall of 2015, more than 50 DC area theater companies will participate in the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, an event celebrating new works created by women. Through their New...

Interview with Musician John Lee of The Electric Trio, Playing Monday Nights at Tryst Café

I met John Lee after a set at Tryst Café. His band The Electric Trio is phenomenal. I especially appreciated their jazz cover of The Cure songs. He shared his musical inspiration, his favorite venues...

2015 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Dishwasher’

We all come as audience to any performance with our own personal histories and experiences through which we encounter the work, but rarely does the work come to visit at home- to do our chores. Brian...

Celtic Woman 10th Anniversary World Tour at Wolf Trap

The four women from Ireland who make up Celtic Woman, along with backup singers, dancers, and musicians returned to Wolf Trap for a very special performance, not least because it’s their 10th...

‘Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival’ at Wolf Trap

There was a lovefest last night at Wolf Trap with the traveling Hawaiian Slack Guitar performance in front of a full-house of aficionados many of whom could sing along in Hawaiian due to their...

‘The Tempest’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company

“We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.” ― Henry James, The Middle Years Henry James’...

The Christmas Revels: ‘An Irish Celebration of the Winter Solstice’

The Washington Revels takes to the sea for their 2014 production and explores the music, dance, and stories of Irish immigrants. It is a rollicking good time and a poignant exploration at the...

Nibbles and Sips Around Town: ‘Human Rights Campaign’s “Chefs For Equality” Evening Scores Big With DC Chefs And Their Fans’

Human Rights Campaign’s “Chefs For Equality” Evening Scores Big With DC Chefs And Their Fans When Washington Post food writer David Hagedorn is doing the asking, big name chefs and restaurateurs...

The Chieftains at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts

The lobby of the George Mason University’s Center for the Arts was a sea of emerald green yesterday, with enthusiastic fans of all ages in more tweed than at an academic convention. The Chieftains...

‘Celtic Fiddle Festival’ at The Barns at Wolf Trap by Christina Marie Frank

While Wolf Trap is largely known for its summer venue – The Filene Center, The Barns at Wolf Trap should not be overlooked if you’re looking for a really good concert. The intimate yet lofty space...

‘Red Bastard’ at Warehouse Theater by Flora Scott

His Mission: To Charm, Disarm, Shock, and Seduce…His Target: YOU. But when I checked out his website, he looked rather menacing to me. I was a bit scared. I was scheduled to review Red Bastard on it’s...

‘Red Bastard’ Returns to the Warehouse Theater June 13-15th by Eric Davis

D.C. is a town that revolves around politics. I don’t consider myself to be a political person, but it has been said to me that this show is extremely political, not the politics of nations, but the...

‘Danú’ at Hylton Performing Arts Center by Mike Spain

Watching Danú perform was a great way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Danú is a highly acclaimed, award-winning Celtic band that plays traditional music with a few originals sprinkled in. They also...