Martin McDonagh News

The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh runs 20 July - 3 September at the Main House

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director, Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce its 2011-2012 season productions, featuring world premieres from Academy Award® winner Ethan Coen, Fernanda Coppel, Gabe McKinley, Adam Rapp, and Pulitzer Prize winner John Patrick Shanley, as well as a U.S. premiere from Simon Stephens starring Olivier Award winner Simon Russell Beale.

The Beauty Queen of Leenane plays the Young Vic from 20 July to 3 September 2011

With echoes of Stoppard, Kafka, and the Brothers Grimm, 'The Pillowman' centers on a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is being interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a series of child murders. 'Comedies don't come any blacker than 'The Pillowman,' stated the New York Times. 'Even those familiar with this British dramatist's [McDonagh's] blithe way with murder, mutilation and dismemberment may be jolted by the events described and simulated so picturesquely...(Advisory note: severed fingers and heads, electric drills, barbed wire and premature burial all figure prominently.)'

Tony Award-winning director Garry Hynes returns to New York on July 24, 2011 with the Druid Theatre Company's production of Seán O'Casey's The Silver Tassie, a searing drama set during and after World War I.

With echoes of Stoppard, Kafka, and the Brothers Grimm, 'The Pillowman' centers on a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is being interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a series of child murders. 'Comedies don't come any blacker than 'The Pillowman,' stated the New York Times. 'Even those familiar with this British dramatist's [McDonagh's] blithe way with murder, mutilation and dismemberment may be jolted by the events described and simulated so picturesquely...(Advisory note: severed fingers and heads, electric drills, barbed wire and premature burial all figure prominently.)'

Profiles Theatre opens its 2011-2012 Season with the Midwest premiere of A Behanding in Spokane by Martin McDonagh, directed by Steppenwolf ensemble member Rick Snyder, featuring Profiles ensemble members Eric Burgher and Darrell W. Cox with guest artists Sara Greenfield and Levenix Riddle.

The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh runs 20 July - 3 September at the Main House

Last January, Druid kicked off its major US & Irish tour of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan in Roscommon and since then has been on one of the longest US tours by an Irish theatre company in decades.

The Five Dollar Recession Theatre Company, Nashville's newest theatrical outfit, makes its debut Thursday, June 23, with its production of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, playing at the Belmont Little Theatre (underneath Hail Hall on the Belmont University campus) through Sunday, June 26.

Last January, Druid kicked off its major US & Irish tour of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan in Roscommon and since then has been on one of the longest US tours by an Irish theatre company in decades.

West Palm Beach's longest residing professional theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks, concludes its 11th anniversary season with 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane,' a dark comedy by acclaimed playwright Martin McDonagh on Friday, May 6th (8PM) at their intimate downtown theatre (322 Banyan Boulevard). Special priced preview performances are slated for May 4th (2PM & 8PM) & 5th (8PM) and the production will play through June 19th.

Today we are thrilled to raise the curtain and announce the first four plays selected for our 2011-12 Season which continues our legacy of professional, edgy and intimate theatre.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) concludes its 25th Anniversary season with a celebration of its history with 10x25, an all-commissioned, one-act festival of ten-minute plays by twenty-five of the extraordinary playwrights who have been produced there since 1985.

J M Synge's comic masterpiece and one of Ireland's greatest plays, The Playboy of t he West ern World will preview at The Old Vic from 17 September 2011 with a press night on 27 September.

J M Synge's comic masterpiece and one of Ireland's greatest plays, The Playboy of the Western World will preview at The Old Vic from 17 September 2011. Directed by John Crowley, this major new production will star Robert Sheehan as Christy Mahon, Ruth Negga as Pegeen Mike and Niamh Cusack as Widow Quinn.

The SF Playhouse proudly announces four of the six plays in its ninth season and continues its legacy of professional, edgy and intimate theatre which has garnered it multiple Bay Area Critic Circle awards and nominations; repeated Top Ten list mentions and hailed by the NY Times as providing 'some of the most consistently high-quality work around...

Fiery Dragons production compny has just announced plans to bringSheffield Theatres' ME AND MY GIRL and a sequel to THE 39 STEPS to the West End, according to Whatsonstage.com. They plan to capitalize on 'recent success and growth of British commercial theatre'.

The Indiana University Department of Theatre and Drama in the College of Arts and Sciences announces its upcoming 2011-2012 season at the Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center.

The six-month-long Philadelphia Irish Theatre Festival draws to a close this weekend as the Annenberg Center of the Performing Arts presents Martin McDonagh's THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN. The plays tells the tale of an eccentric rural space changed by a Hollywood film crew in the 1930s.