Alan Smyth News

Los Angeles: Alan Smyth will join writer-actor Jake Thomas as a director and writer, who sit in an A-List movie star's office waiting room. They wait. And they wait. And they wait...

Plays from the island of Ireland and several East Coast-based productions will vie for top jury prizes as the 17th annual Origin 1st Irish Theatre Festival reaches its finale. The Closing Night Awards Ceremony will take place on Monday April 28.

The 17th annual edition of the only festival of its kind to showcase the theatrical work of contemporary Irish playwrights takes place from April 1 to April 28 in three boroughs.

​​​​​​​ Origin 1st Irish 2025, the only festival of its kind devoted to producing and presenting the theatrical work of contemporary Irish playwrights from around the world, will take place this year from April 1 to April 28 in New York.

A NIGHT IN NOVEMBER by Marie Jones returns to The Pico Playhouse in LA on September 5th-8th. Directed by Tim Redmond and featuring Alan Smyth, it explores sectarian prejudices in 1994 Northern Ireland.

Irish singer/songwriter Yelpy performs his hit single 'Gravity' with a full orchestra at Eimear Noone's 'Ireland - Where Legend Lives' for IrelandWeek in Los Angeles, celebrating Irish arts and culture.

Experience the gripping one-man psychological thriller, SHARD, by Irish playwright Stewart Roche during Los Angeles' Ireland Week. Starring Neill Fleming, this full-scale theatrical premiere explores the high price of escape from modern life's hypocrisies.

InHouse Theatre Company, in association with CIACLA, presents A Night In November by Marie Jones, a live immersive storytelling experience, staged in various Irish pubs throughout Los Angeles.

BESPOKE PLAYS - a bicoastal industry reading series - announces that Brittany Curran (The Magicians) will be joined by Dileep Rao (Inception, Avatar), Daniel Mills, Caroline Morahan, Marie Semla, And Stephanie Sheh in the first public presentations of 45 BENNINGTON by Ryan McCurdy (Whiterock Cliff, The Currents).

BESPOKE PLAYS announced today that BRITTANY CURRAN (The Magicians) will be joined by DILEEP RAO (Inception, Avatar), DANIEL MILLS, CAROLINE MORAHAN, MARIE SEMLA, and STEPHANIE SHEH in the first public presentations of 45 BENNINGTON by RYAN McCURDY (Whiterock Cliff, The Currents) on March 26th and 27th at 7p at The Pico, Los Angeles.

Bespoke Plays is partnering with The 24 Hour Plays this Memorial Day weekend for a round of The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues, featuring brand-new monologues written, rehearsed and recorded in 24 hours by 14 pairs of actors and playwrights.

Christine Boylan (THE PUNISHER, LEVERAGE), Ellie Pyle (SOURCES, BEGINNINGS), and Ryan McCurdy (ONCE, PIP'S ISLAND) have announced the official addition of a New York chapter to Bespoke Plays, which will make it the only bicoastal production company dedicated to industry readings of new plays. Boylan and Pyle will continue to co-produce Los Angeles with McCurdy as the New York associate.

Mary Chieffo (STAR TREK DISCOVERY) and Alan Smyth (BETTER THINGS, ZEALOT at South Coast Rep) star in Analogue, a new play by Christine Boylan (THE PUNISHER, CLOAK & DAGGER). Mike Rozycki will direct the readings October 6 @ 8pm in The Broadwater Blackbox (6322 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038) and October 7 @ 8pm in The Broadwater Theatre (1076 Lillian Way, Los Angeles, California 90038).

BESPOKE PLAYS - a play reading series - announces RUTH CONNELL (SUPERNATURAL) will lead the first public reading of HERETICS by playwright ELLIE PYLE (Sources), on September 25 at 8pm on The Broadwater Mainstage (1076 Lillian Way, Los Angeles, California 90038) and September 28 at 8pm in the Broadwater Blackbox (6322 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038).

The NY Indie Theatre Film Festival is excited to announce it will open its 2019 edition on February 8 with the New York festival premiere of Poor Behavior, the film directorial debut by Theresa Rebeck, based on her play of the same name.

The NY Indie Theatre Film Festival kicks off its 2019 edition in one week on February 8 with the New York festival premiere of Poor Behavior, the film directorial debut by Theresa Rebeck, based on her play of the same name.

The NY Indie Theatre Film Festival is excited to announce it will open its 2019 edition on February 8 with the New York festival premiere of Poor Behavior, the film directorial debut by Theresa Rebeck, based on her play of the same name.

The NY Indie Theatre Film Festival is excited to announce it will open its 2019 edition on February 8 with the New York festival premiere of Poor Behavior, the film directorial debut by Theresa Rebeck, based on her play of the same name.

Fresh off his New York Innovative Theater Award for best actor, Ryan McCurdy (Greencard Wedding) will make his Los Angeles debut alongside Ellie Pyle, in her play SOURCES, under the direction of Alan Smyth on October 26 at 8 p.m. and October 28 at 6:30 p.m. at The Pico (10508 Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064).

In the world premiere production of playwright (and creator of NBC's Smash) Theresa Rebeck's ZEALOT---now performing at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa through November 16---Mecca, Saudi Arabia serves as the setting for a volatile tug-of-war that erupts at the start of the 'Hajj,' the holy city's annual Islamic pilgrimage. Here a young woman's act of civil disobedience incites riots, prompting a carefully-considered, if endlessly circling debate on the merits of whether to comply and honor a host country's 'traditional' rules, or to allow Western ideologies to triumph in order to best serve the needs of a fellow human---a fellow global citizen---in dire need of care and protection. While Rebeck's play, helmed by SCR's own artistic director Marc Masterson, is generally insightful, the play feels pretty unfinished, as if there's plenty more to unearth in the narrative that didn't quite make it to the page (and, consequently, the stage). Regrettably, it doesn't quite reach the point of heightened urgency you would come to expect in a drama with such a politically-charged storyline.