John B. Keane News

Hugh Leonard's Tony Award-winning autobiographical play Da returns to Olney Theatre Center, the home of its 1973 world premiere.

A new production of Brian Friel's highly popular masterpiece Philadelphia, Here I Come! is being produced by Noel Pearson, and will play the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin from March 10th 2010 for a limited season.

Enda Walsh, playwright of the critically acclaimed The Walworth Farce, premiered his new play, The New Electric Ballroom at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn last night to a full house. The play premiered at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe First Award. The production is brought to St. Ann's by the Irish theatre company Druid Ireland and is directed by Edna Walsh. It runs at St. Ann's Warehouse through November 22nd.

THE WALWORTH FARCE was written by Enda Walsh, one of Ireland's hottest young playwrights, and is a commission of the renowned Druid Theater Company. One of the most innovative and thrilling playwrights of his generation and Edinburgh Fringe First Winner (2007 and 2008), Enda Walsh is internationally celebrated for his exhilarating wordplay and the visceral power of his stories. His newest play The New Electric Ballroom, also presented by Druid, has enjoyed similar global success and is on tour this autumn in Ireland and the US.

AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) 'a valuable company [that] offers a chance to look in on operas in progress by talented composers.' (The New Yorker) will begin its 21st season of commissioning, developing and presenting new opera and musical works this fall.

AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) 'a valuable company [that] offers a chance to look in on operas in progress by talented composers.' (The New Yorker) will present evenings of concert readings from two operas-in-development: Paul's Case, by Gregory Spears, who 'fashioned a dreamy suspense' (The New York Times) with his instrumental work 'Finishing' at Zankel Hall in November, and Sharon's Grave by Richard Wargo, hailed by Opera News as 'a born opera composer.'

AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) will present a concert reading of scenes from Paul's Case, the first opera by rising, young composer Gregory Spears, on Friday, May 29 and Saturday, May 30, 8pm at South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

The New York Times has reported that Anna Manahan, an actress renowned in Ireland who earned belated acclaim in the United States for her Tony-winning portrayal of monstrous mother in Martin McDonagh's play 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane,' died Sunday in Waterford, Ireland.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) and Druid will reteam in presenting Academy Award? winner and four-time Tony Award? nominee Martin McDonagh's play THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN, directed by Tony Award? winner Garry Hynes, following an acclaimed UK tour.

Atlantic Theater Company and Druid are proud to announce a four week extension of Martin McDonagh's hit dark comedy THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN, which will now play through Sunday, March 1st, 2009 Off Broadway at Atlantic's Linda Gross Theater (336 West 20th Street).

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) and Druid are proud to reteam in presenting Academy Award? winner and four-time Tony Award? nominee Martin McDonagh?s play THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN, directed by Tony Award? winner Garry Hynes, following an acclaimed UK tour.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) and Druid are proud to reteam in presenting Academy Award? winner and four-time Tony Award? nominee Martin McDonagh?s play THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN, directed by Tony Award? winner Garry Hynes, following an acclaimed UK tour.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) and Druid will reteam in presenting Academy Award? winner and four-time Tony Award? nominee Martin McDonagh's play THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN, directed by Tony Award? winner Garry Hynes, following an acclaimed UK tour.

The Irish Repertory Theater (132 West 22nd Street) will present CONFESSIONS OF AN IRISH PUBLICAN, with Des Keogh in the W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre beginning November 5, 2008 until November 30, 2008.

The Irish Repertory Theater (132 West 22nd Street) will present CONFESSIONS OF AN IRISH PUBLICAN, with Des Keogh in the W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre beginning November 5, 2008 until November 30, 2008.

The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd St.) is proud to announce their production of Sive by John B. Keane is extended to November 25.

Tony Award-winning actress Anna Manahan will head to 59E59 Theaters for the critically hailed play Sisters, written by Declan Hassett and directed by Michael Scott; it begins performances on September 12th

The Irish Repertory Theatre has extended its current production, the American premiere of John B. Keane's The Field, directed by Ciarán O'Reilly, through Sunday, August 6.