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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Irishtown: New Comedy In A Fun Brogue
8 / 10
At its most chaotic, Irishtown brings to mind Noises Off, that classic farce about staging a play within a play in the British hinterland. Comedy, as they say, is hard; and it takes tremendous discipline and timing to pull it off. Under the tight direction of Nicola Murphy Dubey the company mostly meets the challenge though the humor occasionally seems forced. Still it’s quite a trip watching talented actors frantically portraying desperate actors acting badly.
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.
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Kevin Oliver Lynch From Irish Rep's IRISHTOWN Takes Over Our Instagram Today
by Michael Major - May 3, 2025
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!
Deirdre Madigan to Join the Cast of IRISHTOWN at Irish Rep in May
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 30, 2025
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!
Review Roundup: IRISHTOWN Opens at Irish Repertory Theatre
by Nicole Rosky - April 14, 2025
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.
Photos: IRISHTOWN Celebrates Opening Night at Irish Repertory Theatre
by Jennifer Broski - April 14, 2025
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!
Photos: Saoirse-Monica Jackson and More in IRISHTOWN at Irish Repertory Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 9, 2025
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!
Photos: Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Kate Burton and More in IRISHTOWN Rehearsals
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 21, 2025
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!
Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Kate Burton, And More Cast In IRISHTOWN At Irish Repertory Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - February 24, 2025
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.
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| 2024 | Off-Broadway |
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