William Butler News

The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, New York's premiere eco-friendly/socially-conscious theatre festival, is proud to announce this years line-up which include new works, musicals, adaptations, one-acts, solo shows and more.

This year's Christmas Revels is set aboard a 1905 ship travelling from Ireland to America, bringing immigrants to the New World. On the shortest day of the year, the passengers gather on the desk to sing, dance, tell stories, and to 'drive the dark away.'

This year's Christmas Revels is set aboard a 1905 ship travelling from Ireland to America, bringing immigrants to the New World. On the shortest day of the year, the passengers gather on the desk to sing, dance, tell stories, and to 'drive the dark away.'

This year's Christmas Revels is set aboard a 1905 ship travelling from Ireland to America, bringing immigrants to the New World. On the shortest day of the year, the passengers gather on the desk to sing, dance, tell stories, and to 'drive the dark away.'

This year's Christmas Revels is set aboard a 1905 ship travelling from Ireland to America, bringing immigrants to the New World. On the shortest day of the year, the passengers gather on the desk to sing, dance, tell stories, and to 'drive the dark away.'

A Noise Within (ANW) -- the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company hailed by critics as 'adventurous,' 'compelling and current,' 'ingenuity at work,' 'a bona fide class act,' and 'what great theatre is all about' -- continues its trajectory in the 2009-10 season with a slate of six masterworks about individuals who forge their own destinies, much like ANW itself, which takes a momentous step on its journey to a permanent home with a Fall '09 groundbreaking for its Pasadena theatre. The 18th Season, titled 'On the Wings of Fate!', marks the company's last in its current Glendale location before the move in Fall '10 to its spacious new venue. The Fall 2009 line-up opens October 3 with Shakespeare's Richard III, followed by a new adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and Michael Frayn's Noises Off. The Spring 2010 offerings are Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! and John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World. The company also reprises for the third consecutive year its critically acclaimed and popular production of Beckett's Waiting for Godot for 10 performances in January 2010.

North/South Consonance, Inc. will present its 9th concert of its 29th consecutive season on Tuesday, June 16 at 8 PM at the auditorium of Christ & St. Stephen's Church (120 West 69th St) in Manhattan. Admission is free.

North/South Consonance, Inc. will present its 9th concert of its 29th consecutive season on Tuesday, June 16 at 8 PM at the auditorium of Christ & St. Stephen's Church (120 West 69th St) in Manhattan. Admission is free.

Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, a new eco-friendly festival designed to promote social and cultural awareness in the theatrical community, launches with 35 premieres in June 2009. Co-Executive Directors, Glory Bowen and Frank Calo, are excited by the prospects of premiering new shows which foster social change, benefiting at least 26 various not-for-profit organizations, while connecting artists with new audiences in a fun theatrical environment.

The Irish Repertory Theatre presents THE YEATS PROJECT, a thrilling month-long festival of all 26 plays written by William Butler Yeats - the world's most popular poet and playwright.

The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) in association with Glucksman Ireland House, The American Irish Historical Society, and The WB Yeats Society of New York will begin previews of The Yeats Project on Wednesday, April 8, 2009. The production will open on Wednesday, April 15. Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director and Ciar?n O'Reilly, Producing Director will direct.

The Irish Repertory Theatre presents THE YEATS PROJECT, a thrilling month-long festival of all 26 plays written by William Butler Yeats - the world's most popular poet and playwright.

Our special series for Women's History Month continues with a profile of Irish Rep's artistic director and cofounder.

The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) in association with Glucksman Ireland House, The American Irish Historical Society, and The WB Yeats Society of New York will begin previews of The Yeats Project on Wednesday, April 8, 2009. The production will open on Wednesday, April 15. Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director and Ciar?n O'Reilly, Producing Director will direct.

Award-winning actor Chris Sullivan returns to the UK with his one man show A Bit of Irish, a theatrical evening of Irish celebration, which features poems, limericks, a multitude of stories and audience participation and opens for a limited week long season at Jermyn Street Theatre in London on St Patrick's Day, Monday 17 March, running to Saturday 22 March 2008.

The Daryl Roth Theatre continues with their new Coffee House series Thursday, September 28 in the D-Lounge cabaret space.