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“Nowadays you can go on Google and look up pictures of Australia.” So said theatre director Nicola Murphy, throwing into stark relief the leap of f...

Debate: Baldwin vs Buckley is an extraordinary recreation of A 1965 televised debate, Glass Town is a fun rock concert with a Bronte band, The Life gets reworked for Encores! and an O'Neill drama involving Andrew Jackson may be seen differently today.

Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim has named New York-based Irish Repertory Theater as one of the beneficiaries in his will, according to the New York Post.

Will you ever feel safe in the close confines of a Broadway theatre again? That's a question that some – but by no means all – producers are hoping that you will answer with an emphatic yes very soon. 

Looking for light at the end of the pandemic? News that live theatre has returned to The Irish Rep in Manhattan may be just the kind of boost you need. Maeve Higgins and John Keating star in 'Autumn Royal,' by Kevin Barry, as the Irish Rep finally returns to the stage.

John McDonagh drove a New York City yellow taxi for 40 years. This is his story. John McDonagh Comments John McDonagh, who drove a New York City yellow taxi for 40 years, has turned his play Off the Meter, On the Record into a book called On the Meter, Off-Broadway, which will be published later this year. Under the direction of Ciaran O’Reilly, Off the Meter, On the Record wowed audiences during a three-month run at the Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan.  John McDonagh is bringi...

You’re New Here, Aren’t You? Digital Theater’s Unexpected Upside Companies and venues that put work online are finding big, new and younger audiences — but little revenue. Pittsburgh Public Theater has found an audience for streamed shows like “The Gift of the Mad Guys,” an adaptation of O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi.”Credit...via Pittsburgh Public Theater Five days after the coronavirus quieted performing arts venues, the Irish Repertory Theater ...

Comments The Irish Rep closes out 2020 with a glorious online production of  Meet Me in St. Louis. Since the time of the Greeks, theaters have always shut during a plague. Thats why The Irish Reps remarkable decision to keep on working throughout the pandemic, delivering an entire season online, is so impressive and historic. “We started on day one,” says the Reps artistic director Charlotte Moore. “Our staff began to plan the season which kind of startled both the pro...

Connacht MFC: Sligo send holders Mayo packing December 20, 2020 Sligo 1-9 Mayo 1-7 Sligo knocked holders Mayo out of the Connacht minor football championship this afternoon to book their first final berth in the competition in four years. Adam Gallagher’s goal on the eve of half-time proved crucial for the Yeats men as they held on for a sweet victory at the Connacht GAA Centre of Excellence in Bekan. The points of Mark Gibbon and Cian McHale (3) helped Mayo to lead by 0-4 to 0-3 at the first...