Harvey O'Brien
Touring Ireland through November 11 Forty-Four Sycamore is a comedy of class set in an Ireland seated uneasily upon the back of the Celtic Tiger. First produced in ...
Arthur Lazere
The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard Online references on Sam Shepard Engraved Silver Plated Yo Yo Old fashioned mischief in swanky silver plate. This ...
Harvey O'Brien
The literal translation of the title of this play is "town without laughter", although the script refers more generally to a "place" without laughter, which gives some indication of its tone. Tom Murphy’s dark, gripping reflection on disconnection, loss, ...
Suzanne Weiss
The natives are restless and the British are horny. Welcome to colonial Africa in the heyday of Queen Victoria when men were manly and women submissive (but only when the servants were looking). British playwright Caryl Churchill won an ...
Harvey O'Brien
Dublin born poet and author Aidan Mathews studied at Stanford University under the philosopher and theologian Rene Girard. Communion is one of those plays which seems like the playwright is still working things out. Mathews has written something of ...
Roy Sorrels
The texture of life in Dancing at Lughnasa starts out so simply, so much a cross section of the everyday, so ordinary, laced as it is with the comings and goings of quotidian life, the cooking, and cleaning, nattering, ...
Harvey O'Brien
Hilton Edwards and Miche�l MacLiamm�ir were two of the most important figures in twentieth century Irish theatre. Edwards was best known as a producer and director and MacLiamm�ir an actor, although he was also a designer, writer, and director ...
Roy Sorrels
The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett The story is told of the 19th century actor, down on his luck, who was reduced to touring the smallest and most tattered theatres in rural America, performing by himself before ragtag ...
Gerald Rabkin
Of the new young playwrights who have emerged in the past decade, Rebecca Gilman is unique in that she has embraced a kind of drama that most of her contemporaries have rejected: the social problem play. Her plays are ...
Arthur Lazere
Davis Gaines is a Broadway musical star, widely know for his portrayal of the title role in the wildly successful musical, The Phantom of the Opera. He played the role of Anthony in last year's concert version of Sondheim's ...
