Paul Nugent

Orson Welles' A CHRISTMAS CAROL Comes to Smock Alley Theatre

AboutFACE's much-loved festive 'radio-play-within-a-play' for the whole family returns by popular demand this December!

AboutFACE Presents THE DEVIL HIMSELF at Smock Alley This Weekend

AboutFACE will present a work-in-progress staged reading of The Devil Himself, a new epic play by Paul Nugent, at Smock Alley Theatre in Temple Bar on Sunday February 20th at 2pm as part of the Scene+Heard festival of new work.

ORIGIN 1st IRISH THEATRE FESTIVAL Goes Online

Running three weeks from January 11 to 31, the 2021 Origin 1st Irish will present a total of 20 virtual events, including recorded Theatrical Productions made both before and during Covid from Belfast, Dublin, Wexford, London and New York.

AboutFACE Ireland Announces Selected Plays for 9th Annual NEWvember New Plays Festival

AboutFACE Ireland has announced the final selections for the 2020 NEWvember New Plays Festival Dublin - a showcase of original plays to be streamed online November 5-8 2020 with the Civic, where AboutFACE are Theatre Company in Residence.

Richard Topol, Orlagh Cassidy, Kate Grimes and More Join TRANSATLANTIC TALES 2020

What do you do during a lockdown, when your big June show has been cancelled? Well, put on a digital international theatre production spanning 5,000 km with over 20 artists of course!

AboutFACE Ireland Announce Selected Plays For 8th Annual NEWvember New Plays Festival

AboutFACE Ireland have announced the final selections for the 2019 NEWvember New Plays Festival Dublin – a showcase of original plays to be held cross-city at two venues, Smock Alley in the city centre and the Civic in Tallaght, November 1-3 2019. The announcement was made by AboutFACE Co-Artistic Directors Anna Nugent and Paul Nugent. NEWvember Dublin will feature these works over a three-day weekend, presented via rehearsed readings. After 5 years of NEWvember Festivals in New York, this is the 3rd year the event will be held in Dublin. The spirit of NEWvember is to provide a dynamic, interactive and welcoming place where writers can hear their plays read by seasoned actors, and discuss their work and creative process. It was also announced that many of this year's playwrights will be in attendance, and will take part in post show Q&As, including writers travelling from the US. Additionally, this year's festival will feature for the first time a playwrights roundtable discussion, mixing emerging writers with established playwrights.

AboutFACE Premieres of THE GODS OF THE OZARKS

AboutFACE are delighted to announce the World Premiere of “The Gods of the Ozarks” byMatthew Cole Kelly this August at the Studio Theatre at the Civic in Dublin, Ireland.

AboutFACE Ireland Announce Selected Plays For NEWvember New Plays Festival

AboutFACE Ireland have announced the final selections for the 2018 NEWvember New Plays Festival Dublin – a showcase of original plays to be held at The New Theatre in Dublin's city centre, November 8-10 2018. The announcement was made by AboutFACE Co-Artistic Directors Anna Nugent and Paul Nugent. NEWvember Dublin will feature these works over a three-day weekend, presented via rehearsed readings. After 5 years of NEWvember Festivals in New York, this is the 2nd year the event will be held in Dublin. The spirit of NEWvember is to provide a dynamic, interactive and welcoming place where writers can hear their plays read by seasoned actors, and discuss their work and creative process. It was also announced that many of this year's playwrights will be in attendance, and will take part in post show Q&As, including writers travelling from the US.

AboutFACE Ireland Calls For Submissions For 2018 NEWvember New Plays Festival

AboutFACE Ireland have announced they are now accepting submissions of new plays from playwrights based in Ireland, and Irish playwrights around the world, for the 2018 NEWvember New Plays Festival Dublin, to be held over three days November 8th to 10th at The New Theatre in Dublin's city centre. The closing date for submissions is Friday August 17th 2018. There is no fee for submissions and all plays are read blind of name or gender by a panel. The final plays will be selected based on their originality, range, production potential, narrative quality and emotional resonance, and will be announced in October. AboutFACE announced that NEWvember 2018 is supported by FRINGE LAB at Dublin Fringe Festival and by the New Theatre. They also announced a new transatlantic connection with the Off-Broadway theatre The Cell, with one of this year's final plays to be given a further reading at the Cell in New York.

Tangent Theatre Slates 2017 NEWvember New Plays Festival

Tangent Theatre Company announces their annual NEWvember new plays reading series, NEW17 Works in Progress - a festival of five original plays by Tangent company and past NEWvember playwrights, to be held at their intimate Carpenter Shop Theater, November 9-12, 2017.

Brian Hampton's award-winning play, The Jungle Fun Room, will be presented July 31st at 7:30pm at New World Stages, Stage 2 (340 West 50th Street) for one-night-only to benefit the Long Island Bulldog Rescue, a non-profit organization whose mission is to help English Bulldogs through education, prevention, intervention, and adoption throughout the northeast and eastern Canada. Check out a promo for the show in the video below!