Speaking in Irish at the graveside in Glasnevin Cemetery, Micheál MacLiammóir recalled the setting up of Taibhdhearc na ...

Tom Murphy, an influential Irish playwright known for dark tales told with a rustic musicality, died on Tuesday in Dublin. He was 83. Posted 1:46 a.m.May 17, 2018— Updated 1:46 a.m.May 17, 2018 By ...

Irish actor Mick Mellamphy has been touring the country with his latest play, The Smuggler, but its Dublin date has something ...

Irish playwright Stewart Roche's gripping one-man psychological thriller, "SHARD," will get its full-scale theatrical premiere during Los Angeles' Ireland Week on May 12-13, 2024, following a sold ...

Besides his own work, Friel adapted to Irish themes and settings several classic Russian works by Anton Chekhov and Ivan Turgenev. He said playwrights always had to worry about being misunderstood or ...

The Gate has a reputation as the more cosmopolitan of the two, though the distinction is blurring. For the festival, it's doing Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya," adapted by Irish playwright Brian Friel.

In 'Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me' at KLPac, actors (from left) Donnelly, Yap and Judd step back into the harrowing roles of ...

Were there any doubts that “The Friel Project,” Irish Repertory Theatre’s series honoring one of the 20th century’s great playwrights, would prove one of the highlights of this theater season, they ...

Inis Nua Theatre Company’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World‘ presents an old classic with a modern twist. And that is precisely how Artistic Director KC MacMillan sought to re-tell Irish ...

Celebrated Irish playwright Brian Friel made the subject of his play “Translations” quite clear. He said his play “has to do with language and only language,” an issue he described in a ...