It isn’t hard to imagine that somewhere in Martin McDonagh's attic there is an appallingly bad script with putrefied pages, because thus far, even his flawed work is compelling when co…
Known as the “Elephant Man,” Joseph Merrick (whom the Gallery Players’ version of the play The Elephant Man together with the David Lynch film call John Merrick), was a …
Brian Friel's oft-used fictional town of Ballybeg, Co. Donegal, marks a Chekhovian outline as well as the path to Friel's own hopscotch bearings either side of the nearby Irish border. Th…
"What's it gonna be then, eh?" Well well well, one scenario could be a Hi-NRG music video featuring the dancing droogs. Another, the once seen never forgotten Pacino movie Cruising. Such ass…
Guilty, by Icelandic playwright Hrafnhildur HagalÃn, featuring as part of Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival and directed by August Strindberg Rep founder Robert Greer, is a one…
Playwright Teresa Deevy is quite the enigmatic rediscovery. A native of Waterford, Ireland, Deevy achieved a rapid run of success, writing six plays for The Abbey Theatre (Ireland's National…
Enda Walsh wants to mess with your mood swings by creating non-linear, atmospheric works for you to interpret. It is entirely up to you what you make of it. Walsh will not hold himself respo…
Larry Kirwan's new play, Rebel in the Soul, directed by Charlotte Moore, looks at Dr. Noël Browne's health reform mission, which ultimately brought down the First Inter-Party Government i…
Harold Pinter's 1978 play Betrayal, currently playing at Hoboken's Mile Square Theatre, was inspired by his seven-year affair with the English journalist and "thinking man's crumpet" Joan Ba…
It's hard to forget the 2010 news images of the BP Deepwater Horizon blowout, the pathetically sad marine life gasping for air, daubed in the viscid black oil that spilled into the Gulf of M…
In 2016's 1st Irish Festival, Nancy Manocherian's The Cell raised the splintering roof with Honor Molloy's Crackskull Row, a one-act play soaked to the bone with rough and tumble memories th…
An Irishman, a Slovakian and an Israeli walk into a Harold Pinter play…pauses ensue. It's not easy being Pinteresque. Irish actor and producer Philip O'Gorman has endured the hus…
There are a number of adjectives that spring to mind when watching Bears in Space, a play currently taking part in Origin’s 1st Irish theater festival at 59E59 Theaters; words such as …
As a wee boy in Scotland, Alan Cumming was visited by a strange man who turned up outside his house and bestowed upon him a plastic Kodak camera that he'd won, it transpired, via a tombola t…
Irish writer Eimear McBride’s debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing took a mere six months to write but a further nine years to get published, such is the struggle of the burgeonin…
From every action and decision made, there are consequences. Social psychologist Stanley Milgram, eager to understand those that assisted with or turned a blind eye to the systematic atrocit…
Interpreting the work of Samuel Beckett is for some, an undertaking as formidable and imposing as the contours of the playwright’s granite features. For others, his trademark …
In the year 2040, in a world without plays and cancer, there is always the ‘system’ to provide us with art and anguish. But in Max Posner’s new play Judy, that system can b…
A journalist, keen to rebuild his professional reputation, arrives at a Rwandan prison five years after the 1994 genocide to interview two Hutu Nuns who are about to stand trial for war crim…
In ADA/AVA, an elderly woman, Ada, grieves for her twin sister Ava in the remote New England lighthouse they once shared. Then a visit to the carnival creates a ghostly opportunity for a reu…
At the beginning of the century, actress, writer and comedian Rain Pryor put together a collection of self-penned songs and spoken word that would become Fried Chicken & Latkes (the titl…