Irish Arts Center News

Irish Arts Center will present a week-long residency with The Guardian’s “most exciting indie-rockers” of 2020, Pillow Queens. Stretching across multiple mediums and including some of their favorite local and international artists, Pillow Queens curate engagements including a film screening, a literary event, and two concerts.

After a successful Irish tour in 2017 and again in 2019, as well as ten sold out seasons at the Irish Arts Center in New York, Muldoon's Picnic returns for four dates nationwide this week, 10-14 August 2022, visiting Limerick, Letterkenny, Dublin, and Belfast. 

Irish Arts Center celebrated its 100th performance and continues to inaugurate its new home—a 21,700 square foot hub for the arts at 726 11th Avenue—with an ever eclectic suite of programming this fall.

After a successful Irish tour in 2017 and again in 2019, as well as ten sold out seasons at the Irish Arts Center in New York, Muldoon's Picnic returns for four dates nationwide, 10-14 August 2022, visiting Limerick, Letterkenny, Dublin, and Belfast. 

WMI celebrates its 37th year in NYC with 18 performances featuring artists from over 20 countries, including Botswana, Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, Ghana, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Korea, Mali, Morocco, South Africa, Spain, Ukraine, USA, Venezuela, and Wales.

Following the sold-out success of COVID SUX: The Musical at Cumston Hall, Chris Henry, and Mark Falconer have written a new sequel to their previous original musical comedy about the pandemic featuring parodies of hit Broadway songs from shows like Hamilton, Les Miserables, Tick Tick Boom, West Side Story, Chicago, and Annie.

After a successful Irish tour in 2017 and again in 2019, as well as ten sold out seasons at the Irish Arts Center in New York, Muldoon's Picnic returns for four dates nationwide 10-14 August 2022.

Symphony Space, which celebrates James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses in its beloved annual Bloomsday on Broadway, marks the milestone occasion of the book’s 100th anniversary with a new commission in which Elevator Repair Service (ERS) brings the novel to wild, illuminating theatrical life.

Irish Arts Center will present Mufutau Yusuf's Òwe, the artist's full-length NYC choreographic debut. With Òwe—“proverb” in the Yoruba language—the Nigeria-born Yusuf seeks to decode his personal identity through the lens of the ancestral, in an evocative confluence of personal, ritual, and digital archives.

If you think you know Irish dance, Velocity Irish Dance will persuade you otherwise. This high-octane production displays the next generation in Irish tap. Honoring past traditions while transporting them feet-first into the 21st century, Velocity Irish Dance redefines the concept of Irish dance. It's  expressive, free spirited, edgy, driven by passion and pride, and taking place at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, April 3, at 7 p.m.

The Plymouth Arts Center proudly presents “A Wee Bit Irish” a live musical concert featuring the group Celtic Folk and their special guests, The Harp Twins March 12 & 13 & 17-20, 2022. Celebrate the “Wee Bit of Irish” in you with traditional and contemporary Irish tunes to help celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Celtic Folk is made up with the following vocalists and musicians: Tom Clegg, Julie Henze, Neil Horneck, Kerrylynn Kraemer, Vincent Reysen, Carson Schwartz, Roy Schwab, Rachel Stoyke, and Ramona Tritz. The Harp Twins are Camille and Kennerly Kitt.

Audiences will have another chance to watch this critically acclaimed major adaption from Marina Carr and directed for the stage by Annabelle Comyn as it returns for a limited on-demand video stream this spring.   

MPAC offers several ways to celebrate all things Ireland in March, including two events that take place after Morristown's St. Patrick's Day parade concludes.

The Williamson County Performing Arts Center (WCPAC) at Academy Park and the Williamson County Parks and Recreation Department (WCPR) have announced upcoming events for March and April 2022.

Originally scheduled to run from Sun Jan 9 to Mon Jan 31, the hybrid virtual and in-person Festival was extended by several days to accommodate the world premiere of John Kearns’ “Boann and the Well of Wisdom,” which was forced to reschedule its run at Ryan’s Daughter due to COVID-related developments.

Raue Center For The Arts will welcome “An Irish Heartbeat: A Musical Tribute to Van Morrison” to the stage.

The Plymouth Arts Center presents “A Wee Bit Irish” a live musical concert featuring the group Celtic Folk and their special guests, The Harp Twins March 12 & 13 & 17-20, 2022.

The Irish Arts Center presents the U.S. debut of Martin Hayes’ Common Ground Ensemble, in which he has convened a range of musicians—acclaimed practitioners of traditional Irish music, jazz and improvisation, avant-garde and cutting edge contemporary classical—with roots in Irish trad music, the “common ground” of their name.

Now in its final week, the 14th annual Origin 1st Irish Theatre Festival, running through January 31,will host two in-person events, including the world premiere of a new play by John Kearns and an online curated Irish language theater salon. 

Origin Theatre Company and the Irish Arts Center are jointly presenting a star-studded commemorative reading of Richard Norton-Taylor’s “Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Enquiry” to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, a seismic turning point in the history of Northern Ireland.