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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 bringing it to the Sean O’Casey Theatre in Dublin and the Abbey Arts Centre in Co. Donegal later this ye...

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 found its voice. It was St. Patrick’s Day, after all — not an occasion to go unacknowledge...

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. That's why The Irish Rep's 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 Rep's artistic director Charlotte Moore. “Our staff began to plan the season which kind of startled both the producing director Ciaran O'Reilly and I. We're going to do what? When now? And yet since we began...

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 water break and they’d be two in front after Sam Callinan and McHale (free) sailed over scores to...