Fiona Walsh News

Irish Arts Center Announces Spring 2018 Season

Irish Arts Center (IAC), the arts and cultural center dedicated to projecting a dynamic image of Ireland and Irish America for the 21st century, has announced its fall 2017 season. The lineup epitomizes IAC's commitment to building community with a diversity of arts institutions, artists and audiences - in New York, across America, and abroad.

On Friday, June 16, beloved New York fixture Malachy McCourt receives the first Origin in Bloom Literary Award, a new annual Bloomsday award honoring the work of an Irish or Irish-American author.

This year's 4th annual immersive Bloomsday Breakfast hosted by Origin Theatre Company and Bloom's Tavern in Midtown on June 16 will feature an expanded version of its juried costume contest and the announcement of a new Irish-American literary prize.

Irish Repertory Theatre has announced the official re-opening of the new Irish Repertory Theatre, the New York home for Irish and Irish-American theatre.

Irish Repertory Theatre has announced the official re-opening of the new Irish Repertory Theatre, the New York home for Irish and Irish-American theatre.

A new, juried costume contest will be the centerpiece of this year's 3rd annual Bloomsday Breakfast celebration at Midtown's Bloom's Tavern, 208 East 58th Street, on Thursday June 16 beginning at 8am.

Penguin Rep Theatre kicks off its 2016 season with a special event - 'Great White American Teeth' - written and performed by Fiona Walsh, directed by George Heslin, tonight, April 30th and May 1st.

Penguin Rep Theatre kicks off its 2016 season with a special event - 'Great White American Teeth' - written and performed by Fiona Walsh, directed by George Heslin, April 30th and May 1st.

Penguin Rep Theatre, under the leadership of founding artistic director Joe Brancato and executive director Andrew M. Horn, announces its 2016 season, the professional Equity company's 39th at its home in Stony Point (Rockland County), New York, a season filled with current and controversial subject matter.

Comedy in many varieties will be the common refrain of the 8th annual Origin's 1st Irish Festival running from September 2 to October 4. In all seven mainstage productions seen in competition (4 US premieres, 3 world premieres), plus seven special events out-of-competition will make up the five-week, month-long festival.

Origin Theatre Company stages the 2nd annual Bloomsday Breakfast at Bloom's Tavern, 208 East 58th Street, in midtown today, June 16, beginning at 7:30am.

Origin Theatre Company stages the 2nd annual Bloomsday Breakfast at Bloom's Tavern, 208 East 58th Street, in midtown on Tuesday June 16 beginning at 7:30am.

Actors read from works by James Joyce at a breakfast event commemorating the day 'Ulysses' takes place.

Back by popular demand, the innovative performance of the complete Molly Bloom monologue from James Joyce's Ulysses recorded live on June 16, 2013 by not one but two actresses, Caraid O'Brien and Bernadette Quigley, will be rebroadcast nationwide on Monday, June 16. 2014.

For the first time ever, the complete Molly Bloom monologue from James Joyce's Ulysses will be performed live by not one but two actresses, Caraid O'Brien and Bernadette Quigley, as a conversation that Molly has with her younger self. Tune into WBAI (99.5 FM in NYC) or stream at http://wbai.org or KPFK (90.7 in Los Angeles) http://kpfk.org/. Each year, Radio Bloomsday ends its 7 hour nationwide broadcast of James Joyce's Ulysses with the book's final chapter - a two hour passion filled monologue, by the novel's heroine, Molly Bloom.

Grammy Award winners Bill Whelan (Riverdance) and Susan McKeown, actress and TONY nominee Kathleen Chalfant and Man Booker nominee Emma Donoghue, are among the featured artists this Fall at the Irish Arts Center.

Mind The Gap Theatre returns with their sixth series of new short plays by, for or about the British, November 6-8, 2009 at Manhattan Theatre Source in the West Village.

BRITBRITS 6: SHORT PLAYS FOR THE BUSY ANGLOPHILE will play the Mind the Gap Festival from November 6th through 8th. Plays included in this year's festival are DELAYS by Dan Remmes, CHUN LI by Camilla Maxwell, SLEEVE NOTES by Duncan Macmillan, OMISSIONS by Stephanie Staes, THE DERELICTS by Darren Murphy, DEVIL MAY DARE by Kraig Smtih, and BREAKTIME by Philip Gawthorne.

Mind The Gap Theatre returns with their sixth series of new short plays by, for or about the British, November 6-8, 2009 at Manhattan Theatre Source in the West Village.