Irishtown
Closing: May 25, 2025Irishtown - 2025 Off-Broadway History , Info & More
Irish Repertory Theatre
132 West 22nd St.(between 6th & 7th Aves) New York, NY 10011
The Irishtown Players, a celebrated Dublin-based theatre company, have just started rehearsals for their new play. After the astounding success of their last production, the company are scheduled to open on Broadway, with the same visionary playwright at the helm. However, trouble arises when the actors decide she’s going too dark, too experimental, and… not Irish enough? Taking matters into their own hands, the company fights to restore the Hibernian flair. Irishtown is a hilarious and searing new comedy that explores the commercialization of culture, inviting audiences to experience the fragile creative process and the potential collapse of a collective.
Irishtown - 2025 - Off-Broadway Cast
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Theater ‘Irishtown’ roasts the clichés of Irish theater over a peat fire (Off Broadway review)
8 / 10
If you’ve had the pleasure of attending performances at the Irish Repertory Theatre, you’ve grown accustomed to certain recurring themes and tropes in the grand tradition of Irish drama: domestic disputes that unfold in either Dublin or the remote countryside, with detours to the local pub of course, and feature the eventual revelation of long-buried family secrets. Ciara Elizabeth Smyth’s Irishtown, a wise craic-ing new comedy at the Irish Rep, is an affectionate and often hilarious riff on the genre’s many go-to clichés.
Review: Irishtown at Irish Repertory Theatre
7 / 10
Irishtown is like a mashup of The Play That Goes Wrong (there’ s lot of slapstick humor) and a takedown of the pretentious creative process. The tension is maintained as we wait to see will-they-or-won’t-they come up with a new Irish masterpiece. Perhaps, with some light editing, we might even be watching the said masterpiece or at least a very good night of theater.
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by Michael Major - May 3, 2025
Kevin Oliver Lynch is taking over our Instagram today! Follow along here as Lynch takes our Instagram followers behind-the-scenes of the new play. Learn more now!
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 30, 2025
Deirdre Madigan (Philadelphia, Here I Come!) will join the cast of Irishtown at Irish Rep as “Constance” on May 14, 2025. Learn more about the production here!
by Nicole Rosky - April 14, 2025
Irish Repertory Theatre is presenting Irishtown, a new play by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, directed by Nicola Murphy Dubey. Irishtown features Emmy and Tony Award nominee Kate Burton, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Kevin Oliver Lynch, Brenda Meaney, and Angela Reed, with voiceover work by Roger Clark. Check out what the critics are saying about the new play.
by Jennifer Broski - April 14, 2025
Irish Repertory Theatre is presenting Irishtown, a new play by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, directed by Nicola Murphy Dubey. BroadwayWorld was there for opening night and you can check out photos here!
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 9, 2025
Irish Repertory Theatre is presenting Irishtown, a new play by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, directed by Nicola Murphy Dubey. Learn more and get a first look at photos of the production here!
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 21, 2025
Irishtown, a new play by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth and directed by Nicola Murphy Dubey, will be presented on Irish Rep’s Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage. See rehearsal photos here!
by A.A. Cristi - February 24, 2025
Irish Repertory Theatre has announced casting for Irishtown, a new play by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth (Lie Low, recent winner of the Playwrights '73 Scheme bursary), directed by Nicola Murphy Dubey.
Irishtown History
Other Productions of Irishtown
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| 2024 | Off-Broadway |
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| 2025 | Off-Broadway |
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