John B. Keane News

Roscommon Drama Festival 2011 opens at Roscommon Arts Centre on Friday 4th March, 8pm.

Roscommon Drama Festival 2011 opens at Roscommon Arts Centre on Friday 4th March, 8pm.

Roscommon Drama Festival 2011 was launched recently announcing what is already proving a very popular line-up of theatre.

Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) continues its 23rd Season with the world premiere of MY SCANDALOUS LIFE by Irish playwright and novelist Thomas Kilroy (author of the award-winning novel 'The Big Chapel'), set to open February 6 (running through March 6). John Going (who helmed HIZZONER! on Broadway) directs.

Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) continues its 23rd Season with the world premiere of MY SCANDALOUS LIFE by Irish playwright and novelist Thomas Kilroy (author of the award-winning novel 'The Big Chapel'), set to begin previews in the company's downstairs W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre on February 2, prior to its official press opening February 6 (running through March 6).

The Guthrie Theater today announced that Artistic Director Joe Dowling will direct legendary stage actor Brian Dennehy in John B. Keane's The Field in a limited run at Dublin's Olympia Theatre beginning January 13. Dennehy plays the iconic role of ‘The Bull' McCabe in Keane's award-winning play. The Field returns to the Olympia Theatre where it premiered more than 45 years ago and will run from January 13 through to February 12, then transfer to the INEC, Killarney, from February 15 through 17, followed by a transfer to the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, from February 24 through 26.

Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) continues its 23rd Season with the world premiere of MY SCANDALOUS LIFE by Irish playwright and novelist Thomas Kilroy (author of the award-winning novel 'The Big Chapel'), set to begin previews in the company's downstairs W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre on February 2, prior to its official press opening February 6 (running through March 6).

The Guthrie Theater today announced that Artistic Director Joe Dowling will direct legendary stage actor Brian Dennehy in John B. Keane's The Field in a limited run at Dublin's Olympia Theatre beginning January 13. Dennehy plays the iconic role of ‘The Bull' McCabe in Keane's award-winning play. The Field returns to the Olympia Theatre where it premiered more than 45 years ago and will run from January 13 through to February 12, then transfer to the INEC, Killarney, from February 15 through 17, followed by a transfer to the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, from February 24 through 26.

Hugh Leonard's Tony Award-winning autobiographical play Da returns to Olney Theatre Center, the home of its 1973 world premiere.

Hugh Leonard's Tony Award-winning autobiographical play Da returns to Olney Theatre Center, the home of its 1973 world premiere.

Hugh Leonard's Tony Award-winning autobiographical play Da returns to Olney Theatre Center, the home of its 1973 world premiere.

A new production of Brian Friel's highly popular masterpiece Philadelphia, Here I Come! is being produced by Noel Pearson, and will play the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin from March 10th 2010 for a limited season.

Enda Walsh, playwright of the critically acclaimed The Walworth Farce, premiered his new play, The New Electric Ballroom at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn last night to a full house. The play premiered at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe First Award. The production is brought to St. Ann's by the Irish theatre company Druid Ireland and is directed by Edna Walsh. It runs at St. Ann's Warehouse through November 22nd.

THE WALWORTH FARCE was written by Enda Walsh, one of Ireland's hottest young playwrights, and is a commission of the renowned Druid Theater Company. One of the most innovative and thrilling playwrights of his generation and Edinburgh Fringe First Winner (2007 and 2008), Enda Walsh is internationally celebrated for his exhilarating wordplay and the visceral power of his stories. His newest play The New Electric Ballroom, also presented by Druid, has enjoyed similar global success and is on tour this autumn in Ireland and the US.

AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) 'a valuable company [that] offers a chance to look in on operas in progress by talented composers.' (The New Yorker) will begin its 21st season of commissioning, developing and presenting new opera and musical works this fall.

AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) 'a valuable company [that] offers a chance to look in on operas in progress by talented composers.' (The New Yorker) will present evenings of concert readings from two operas-in-development: Paul's Case, by Gregory Spears, who 'fashioned a dreamy suspense' (The New York Times) with his instrumental work 'Finishing' at Zankel Hall in November, and Sharon's Grave by Richard Wargo, hailed by Opera News as 'a born opera composer.'

AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) will present a concert reading of scenes from Paul's Case, the first opera by rising, young composer Gregory Spears, on Friday, May 29 and Saturday, May 30, 8pm at South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

The New York Times has reported that Anna Manahan, an actress renowned in Ireland who earned belated acclaim in the United States for her Tony-winning portrayal of monstrous mother in Martin McDonagh's play 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane,' died Sunday in Waterford, Ireland.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) and Druid will reteam in presenting Academy Award? winner and four-time Tony Award? nominee Martin McDonagh's play THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN, directed by Tony Award? winner Garry Hynes, following an acclaimed UK tour.

Atlantic Theater Company and Druid are proud to announce a four week extension of Martin McDonagh's hit dark comedy THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN, which will now play through Sunday, March 1st, 2009 Off Broadway at Atlantic's Linda Gross Theater (336 West 20th Street).