Siobhan O.Loughlin News

Firehouse Theatre, in association with Julie Pennini, is pleased to produce the return engagement of Siobhan O'Loughlin's unique and intimate performance of BROKEN BONE BATHTUB from Wednesday, October 16 thru Sunday, October 20, 2019. BROKEN BONE BATHTUB is an immersive, solo theatre project performed inside a bathtub for a small audience in the homes of adventurous and kind hosts throughout the Richmond area.

SIOBHAN O'LOUGHLIN brings her intimate solo theatrical event to Houston, TX from June 25th- July 7th, 2019. BROKEN BONE BATHTUB is the award-winning immersive one-person play taking place inside a bathtub-in an actual private residence.

SIOBHAN O'LOUGHLIN brings her intimate solo theatrical event to Houston, TX from June 25th- July 7th, 2019. BROKEN BONE BATHTUB is the award-winning immersive one-person play taking place inside a bathtub-in an actual private residence.

SIOBHAN O'LOUGHLIN brings her intimate solo theatrical event to the Lakewood Glens from September 6-23, 2018. BROKEN BONE BATHTUB is the award-winning immersive one-person play taking place inside a bathtub-in an actual private residence. After a serious bike accident, a young woman musters up the courage to ask for help and shares her story, exploring themes of trauma, suffering, human generosity and connection. The small-scale audience takes on the role of Siobhan's close friends; listening and sharing their own experiences, and assisting the cast-clad artist in her very real ritual of taking a bath.

 SIOBHAN O'LOUGHLIN brings her intimate solo theatrical event to Las Vegas from August 9-19, 2018. BROKEN BONE BATHTUB is the award-winning immersive one-person play taking place inside a bathtub-in an actual home. After a serious bike accident, a young woman musters up the courage to ask for help, and shares her story, exploring themes of trauma, suffering, human generosity and connection. The audience (of twelve people at a time) takes on the role of Siobhan's close friends; listening and sharing their own experiences, and assisting the cast-clad artist in her very real ritual of taking a bath. 

BROKEN BONE BATHTUB is based on Siobhan O'Loughlin's experience of breaking her hand in a bike accident. Whatever you may be feeling about the state of the world, or even your day, this award-winning solo piece will give you hope and you'll walk out a happier and more compassionate person than you walked in.

SIOBHAN O'LOUGHLIN brings her intimate solo theatrical event various North Portland locations from JUNE 6TH-18TH, 2018. 

Early in Dirt [Contained]'s production of GARDEN OF DELIGHTS, a caller on a radio show asks Lais (Tana Sirois), the successful but tormented actress at the center of Fernando Arrabal's 1960s play, if she was was really an orphan. When Lais responds in the affirmative, the caller expresses sympathy for her presumed suffering.Lais' response provides the audience what it needs to appreciate (if not exactly to enjoy) what follows, even if Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, the Theatre of Cruelty, the Panic Movement, and surrealism in general are literary terra incognito (as they were to me, a former English doctoral candidate specializing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries). But a little knowledge helps one to appreciate just how ambitious and complex a project this is. (I'm told Ferdando Arrabal, now in his 80s, made a special trip to America to see Dirt [Contained] perform his play. Having seen this extraordinary cast, led by the at once luminous and ferocious Tana Sirois, I can see why.) It may be my bias as a former academic, but the more one brings to GARDEN OF DELIGHTS, the more one gets out of it. My reading of and about Arrabal since the show has retroactively increased my respect for and pleasure in the play. Nathan Gorelick's characterization of Arrabal's work in the journal Discourse is apt: '[His] theater is a wild, brutal, cacophonous and joyously provocative world. In his violence, Arrabal is related to Sade and Artaud. Yet he is doubtless the only writer to have pushed derision as far as he did. Deeply political and merrily playful, his work is the syndrome of our century of barbed wire and Gulags, a manner of finding reprieve.'

Following an acclaimed site-specific run this past winter in NYC, SIOBHAN O'LOUGHLIN brings her intimate solo theatrical event to a permanent venue for the first time ever!

When it comes to theater, there's immersive and there's immersive. Siobhan O'Loughlin's BROKEN BONE BATHTUB is immersive in a literal sense: the Brooklyn-based playwright sits in a bathtub full of bubbles as she tells the story of her most severe bicycle accident, though the play is really about the existential crisis triggered by the collision in Grand Army Plaza.

Siobhan O'Loughlin brings her intimate solo theatrical event to Brooklyn, Manhattan & Queens through February 26. BROKEN BONE BATHTUB is the award-winning immersive one-person play taking place inside a bathtub - in an actual home. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the show!

Siobhan O'Loughlin brings her intimate solo theatrical event to Brooklyn, Manhattan & Queens today, January 13, through February 26.

Siobhan O'Loughlin brings her intimate solo theatrical event to Brooklyn, Manhattan & Queens January 13 through February 26.

Several months ago, I took fifty baths in New York City. That's more than basically any adult I know who lives here.

On Monday, September 26, 2016, The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, the organization who for the past 12 years has been dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, announced the 2016 recipients at its annual awards ceremony, The IT Awards. Hosted by a crowd favorite, Jason Kravits and directed by award winning director and sound designer, DeLisa White the ceremony took place from 7pm to 10pm at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College.

I have been an official New Yorker for six full years, and somehow, after traveling for 9 full months, I ended up back by December. When I had a moment, I stopped to stare at the Rockefeller tree and the Saks storefronts on 5th Avenue. Otherwise, I began a new kind of performing for Broken Bone Bathtub that I hadn't done since Tokyo: a collaboration with a theatre company. 

In November of 2015, I performed Broken Bone Bathtub in Baltimore at the Charm City Fringe. I wanted to try to stay "in the neighborhood" of the festival venues, and I was extremely lucky that my friend Sarah Lynn invited me to stay with her and perform in her home. 

On Monday, August 8, 2016, The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, the organization who for the past 12 years has been dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, announced the 2016 nominees at its annual event, The IT Party, celebrating 12 years and thousands of nominees at 42West. Scroll down for the full list of nominations!

When October came, I returned to one of my favorite places in the US: Minneapolis.