The Drama Desk and Obie Award-wining Mint Theater Company today announced the cast for their first play of the 2010-‘11 season, the US premiere of Teresa Deevy's Wife To James Whelan.
The third annual 1st Irish, New York's only all-Irish theatre festival, kicks off tonight as two of the festival's 15 mainstage productions - 'Absolution' and 'Three Irish Widows versus the Rest of the World' -- begin their runs.
1st Irish 2010, New York's only all-Irish theatre festival, runs from September 7 to October 4. Coordinated by the New York-based Origin Theatre Company, the month-long festival features a diverse range of plays by 16 mostly contemporary, living Irish playwrights, in prominent local venues like 59E59 Theaters (two productions), The Irish Repertory Theatre (two productions), The Mint, and PS 122 (two productions), among others.
Though Teresa Deevy was arguably the world's most famous female playwright in 1942, the year she completed her class-conscious romance Wife To James Whelan, the new management of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, which had already produced six of her plays, turned it down. The once-prolific career of the dramatist whose love for theatre began after being diagnosed at age 20 as incurably deaf due to Meniere's disease, skidded to a halt, making her name, at least on this shore, all but forgotten now.
The Drama Desk and Obie Award-wining Mint Theater Company today announced that their first play of the 2010-‘11 season, the US premiere of Teresa Deevy's 'Wife To James Whelan,' which opens tonight (Monday August 23) will extend its engagement through October 3rd.
The Drama Desk, Lortel and Obie Award-winning Mint Theater Company is pleased to announce the newest entries in its lineup of EnrichMINT Events, an exciting series of post and pre-show discussions throughout the Mint's current US premiere of Teresa Deevy's Wife To James Whelan.
1st Irish 2010, New York's only all-Irish theatre festival, runs from September 7 to October 4. Coordinated by the New York-based Origin Theatre Company, the month-long festival features a diverse range of plays by 16 mostly contemporary, living Irish playwrights, in prominent local venues like 59E59 Theaters (two productions), The Irish Repertory Theatre (two productions), The Mint, and PS 122 (two productions), among others.
The Drama Desk and Obie Award-wining Mint Theater Company today announced the cast for their first play of the 2010-‘11 season, the US premiere of Teresa Deevy's Wife To James Whelan.
La Jolla Playhouse announces the cast for the world premiere of Annie Weisman's Surf Report, the first production of the Playhouse's 2010/2011 season, running June 15 - July 11, 2010 in the Mandell Weiss Forum.
The Drama Desk and Obie Award-wining Mint Theater Company today announced the cast for their first play of the 2010-‘11 season, the US premiere of Teresa Deevy's Wife To James Whelan.
The Drama Desk and Obie Award-wining Mint Theater Company today announced the cast for their first play of the 2010-‘11 season, the US premiere of Teresa Deevy's Wife To James Whelan.
La Jolla Playhouse announces the cast for the world premiere of Annie Weisman's Surf Report, the first production of the Playhouse's 2010/2011 season, running June 15 - July 11, 2010 in the Mandell Weiss Forum.
La Jolla Playhouse announces the cast for the world premiere of Annie Weisman's Surf Report, the first production of the Playhouse's 2010/2011 season, running June 15 - July 11, 2010 in the Mandell Weiss Forum.