Pat Kinevane News

The 16th annual Origin 1st Irish Theatre Festival will take place this year from March 23 to April 28 in New York.

Odyssey Theatre Ensemble will welcome back Olivier Award-winning Irish trio Fishamble: The New Play Company, writer/performer Pat Kinevane, and director Jim Culleton with the West Coast premiere of King.

59E59 Theaters has revealed additional productions for the 2024 winter season.

It has just been announced that Fishamble: The New Play Company has been awarded a Scotsman's Fringe First Award for Heaven by Eugene O'Brien starring Andrew Bennett and Janet Moran and directed by Jim Culleton. 

Theatre is at the heart of the 2023 Clonmel Junction Festival, happening July 1st – 9th, with a mixture of new creations, and old favourites, delighting the theatre audience that the festival has built up over the years. With two site-specific shows, a range of work at the Junction Dome on Clonmel's new Civic Plaza, and work for young audiences, there really is something for everyone.

The Everyman has announced its summer 2023 programme. The season's highlight will be The Everyman's production of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams which runs from Wednesday, Augiust 2nd to Saturday, August 26th. It will be directed by Emma Jordan, director of the acclaimed production of Enda Walsh's The New Electric Ballroom (The Gate Theatre) which toured to the theatre earlier this year.   

Following news of the collaboration last month, two of Edinburgh finest venues, Assembly Festival and Dance Base have announced their co-curated programme for this year's Fringe. The venue, Assembly @ Dance Base will present a delectable selection of dance, circus, and physical theatre in Edinburgh's historic Grassmarket 04 – 27 August, with tickets being released later today (Friday 21 April).  

'Don't be afraid of that floor, hammer it!' Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and Fishamble: The New Play Company in association with Solas Nua will present writer/performer Margaret Mc Auliffe in The Humours of Bandon, an award-winning coming-of-age story for anyone who had a childhood passion that threatened to overwhelm their life.

The Everyman's Summer highlight will be a world premiere of John B. Keane's Letters of a Country Postman – a humorous fictional account of the exploits of a postman in rural Ireland and a love song to the postal system and its enduring importance today.

Triple Fringe First and Olivier-winning Fishamble, return to Dance Base for the 10th anniversary of Pat Kinevane’s SILENT, the touching and challenging story of homeless McGoldrig, who once had splendid things. But he has lost it all – including his mind. He now dives into the wonderful wounds of his past through the romantic world of Rudolph Valentino. Dare to laugh at despair and gasp at redemption in this brave, bleak, beautiful production for which Fishamble and Pat Kinevane won an Olivier Award in 2016.

SILENT is the touching and challenging story of homeless McGoldrig, who once had splendid things. But he has lost it all – including his mind. He now dives into the wonderful wounds of his past through the romantic world of Rudolph Valentino. Dare to laugh at despair and gasp at redemption in this brave, bleak, beautiful production, specially filmed by Fishamble, with support from Culture Ireland, to mark the production’s tenth year

Fishamble, Ireland's new play company, celebrates 10 years of Irish writer/performer Pat Kinevane's extraordinary Silent with a special filmed version, streaming July 9 through July 11.

The panel is made up of Fishamble's Artistic Director, Jim Culleton, Dublin Dance Festival's incoming Artistic Director, Jazmin Chiodi and playwright, Rosaleen MacDonagh as well as Tipperary Dance Platform's Alexandre Iseli and the co-founder and Artistic Director of Rather Gather inclusive arts collective, Romi.

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On September 25, the 36th Annual Helen Hayes Awards concluded, after a series of virtual events celebrating Washington's dynamic and diverse theatre community.

Tonight, at a celebration honoring theatre excellence on stages across the Washington area, theatre artists, administrators, patrons, and special guests gathered in the National Theatre's Helen Hayes Gallery for theatreWashington's announcement of nominees for the 36th Annual Helen Hayes Awards, which will be presented on Monday, May 18 at an event at the Anthem.

From the moment you enter the theater, it's obvious something dramatic is about to take place during BEFORE with its black walls and set pieces begging for lights and color to awaken the spirit and envelop the misty atmosphere within its walls. And following the initial blackout, Pat Kinevane explodes with never-ending energy during his 90-minute physical performance piece about love, loss, and parental responsibilities in the face of overwhelming odds.

59E59 Theaters (Val Day, Artistic Director; Brian Beirne, Managing Director) will welcome the return of Ireland's leading new play company Fishamble: The New Play Company with the US premiere of MAZ AND BRICKS, written by Eva O'Connor and directed by Jim Culleton. Part of Origin's 1st Irish, MAZ AND BRICKS begins performances on Tuesday, January 7 for a limited engagement through Sunday, February 2.

“We're packing so many hit shows in to the next six months, from world premieres to little gems of plays, comedy, music and opera – let us entertain you” says Julie Kelleher, Artistic Director of Cork's Everyman Theatre at the announcement of the theatre's programme for the next months.

Odyssey Theatre Ensemble has announced "Circa'69!" an 18-month retrospective beginning in June, 2019 that will celebrate its founding, 50 years ago, by artistic director Ron Sossi, who has remained steadily at the helm since the company's first production in 1969.