Nine companies will present the plays of 13 writers at five locations during New York?s first Irish theater festival, called 1st Irish 2008.
Entries from August 2008
Theater Festival Presents New Voices From a New Ireland
August 31st, 2008 · No Comments
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At a Celebration of Shakespeare, Some Rare Shaw
August 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy are turning heads in plays by Bernard Shaw at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
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Theater: Gloom (and Rain) Set Tone for Plays at Festival
August 30th, 2008 · No Comments
The British writers presenting work this year at the Traverse Theater, the locus of much of the most ambitious playwriting at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, were in a gloomy frame of mind.
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A Writer Enjoying a Revival After a Very Long First Run
August 30th, 2008 · No Comments
The York Theater Company?s decision to fully revive ?Enter Laughing: The Musical? is something of a validation to its author, Joseph Stein.
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Preview Primer: Try Out the Tryouts
August 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Seeing a show that isn?t necessarily in its final form is part of the appeal of previews.
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Shopping for Vanities With Joey Arias
August 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Joey Arias, the 49-year-old star of the production, ?Arias With a Twist,? knows about vanity and vanities: he has nine mirrors in his 14-by-6-foot bathroom.
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Theater Review | ‘The New Electric Ballroom’: Here the Gift of Speech Becomes a Bitter Curse
August 27th, 2008 · No Comments
?The New Electric Ballroom? affirms Enda Walsh?s growing reputation as a contender to take his place in the long, distinguished line of great Irish playwrights.
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Haley Joel Osment on Broadway
August 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Haley Joel Osment will be making his Broadway debut in David Mamet?s ?American Buffalo.?
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City Room: Ask About Times Square’s Future
August 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Taking Questions: Benjamin Chesluk will answer City Room readers’ questions about the development of Times Square and its implications for other cities around the world.
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A Los Angeles Theater Is Renovated, Relieving Headache-Inducing Quirks
August 27th, 2008 · No Comments
The Mark Taper Forum will reopen with a revival of John Guare?s ?House of Blue Leaves? after a yearlong, $30 million renovation.
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