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Don’t act like you didn’t watch MTV’s Making the Band 4, like you weren’t right there with the girls of Danity Kane and the guys of Day26 (and that other kid no one really seemed to care about) as they stressed to get those vocal tracks down just right, else they faced Read More
Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer might be wrapping its Broadway run on Sunday at the Booth, but the Irish playwright won’t be put out to sea for too long on New York stages. Atlantic Theater Company will present the New York premiere of McPherson’s 2001 play Port Authority, starting previews April 30 for a May 21 Read More
You must see Howie the Rookie by the Irish dramatist Mark O’Rowe, who’s only 30 years old. The piece represents an original voice and a staggering achievement. I can think of no more vital theater in years than this savage story that bursts with blood-and-gutter poetry and such awesome young talent.
Directed by Mike Bradwell, Read More
Well, now. They’re back! Though the Irish never really went away. It’s been said for generations: Where would English drama be without the Irish? But where would American drama be? Here we have two more plays by Ireland’s favorite exports-namely, Martin McDonagh of that Tony Award-winning spectral piece of grand old blarney, The Beauty Queen Read More
The new wave of young Irish dramatists may be as talented as many people believe, including the young Irish dramatists themselves. But reports that Conor McPherson’s The Weir is a great play–pause for a second at the accolade great –would compel us to reconsider the entire Irish heritage of J.M. Synge and William Butler Yeats, Read More
A while ago, I was in a pub in Dublin and a local guy, making conversation, turned to me and said, “What do you do for a living?”
I replied that I was a journalist, for anyone can be a critic. “I’m a journalist, sir!”
“Maybe so, sir!” he said. “But are you any Read More
