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 Catalpa LIMITED ENGAGEMENT!
Written and performed by Donal O’Kelly
With live music composed and performed by Trevor Knight
November 12 – 30
| Tues-Fri* 8pm, Sat 2pm & 8pm, Sun** 3pm
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“An Improbably Beautiful Show”
Variety |
"A Sensational Seafaring Epic"
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“A Rip-Roaring Theatrical Adventure"
Washington Post |
“A Triumph, A Joy and a Delight!”
Irish Times |
“DAZZLING, THEATRICAL STORYTELLING” Times of London
Winner, Fringe First Award,
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
“Exuberant, exhilarating, magical ...a triumph, a joy, a delight" Irish Times
“Dazzling, theatrical storytelling”The Times of London
“A masterpiece ... searingly satirical, comic, tragic, profoundly sensitive" The Scotsman
“Donal O’Kelly is Ireland’s Robin Williams...a one-man tour-de-force" The Herald (Glasgow)
“A triumphant feat...a ferocious night of imaginative theatre" RTE Guide
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 Irish Arts Center and Darrah Carr Dance
Present a Special Salon Series
ModERIN: The 10th Anniversary of Darrah Carr Dance
October 23-October 26 |
Thurs, Fri, Sat 8pm, Sat 11am**, Sun 3pm.
Admission: $25 general sale/$20 members | ** Family Show – all tickets $15.
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In commemoration of its 10th Anniversary Season, Darrah
Carr Dance brings its signature blend of traditional Irish step
and contemporary modern dance to the Irish Arts Center stage.
Renowned for seamlessly integrating Irish dance within
contemporary choreography, the company blends Irish music,
step dance footwork, and spatial patterns to create high energy,
rhythmically based work that is performed by a cast of champion
Irish step dancers. Featuring a mix of new works and company
favorites that span the decade of Darrah Carr Dance,
highlights of this weekend-long program include
salon style discussions with artistic director and
choreographer Darrah Carr; special guest performances
by the Irish Arts Center’s dance students,
a ModERIN workshop with company members,
and a specially-priced family show.
Darrah Carr Dance has performed at venues in the United States and around the world, including The Duke Theater on 42nd Street, Celebrate Brooklyn, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, The Yard at Martha’s Vineyard, Wesleyan University, The Center for Performing Arts and SUNY Orange, San Jose Fleadh, the Toronto Fringe Festival, the Bank of Ireland Arts Center in Dublin, Symphony Space, and the Annual Irish Arts Center New York City Dance Festival. Named “One of the Top 100 Irish Americans of the Year,” by Irish America Magazine, Artistic Director Darrah Carr holds an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University.
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The critics on Darrah Carr Dance:
“ModERIN is a combination of the best of both traditions, essentially creating a new language of movement from two distinct vocabularies of dance. . . a glorious melange of sound and movement that’s breathtaking,” Bridget English, Irish Dancing Magazine
“A smiling, exuberant performer with an open upper body and fast-flying feet straight out of Irish step dancing. Her immensely likable and skillful dancers move with a space gobbling buoyancy and openness that looks as if they might take flight,”
Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
This project is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund and The Fund for Creative Communities, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.For more information, please call (212) 757-3318
Netherland:
An Evening with Joseph O’Neill
Wednesday, October 8| 7:30 p.m
Admission: $15 general sale/ $12 members
Joseph O’Neill is author of the critically acclaimed Netherland, a brilliant new novel about a European man living in Manhattan after 9/11 conflicted by two loves: his wife, and his adopted country. Told in a lyrical, mesmerizing voice, his journey involves an immersion in the cricketing subculture of New York, a tragic friendship with a Trinidadian immigrant, and a darkening understanding of the great American narrative. Join us for an in-depth conversation with the author about this extraordinary story of heritage and home, sport and work, friendship and love.
Like Fitzgerald's masterpiece (The Great Gatsby), Joseph O'Neill's stunning new novel provides a resonant meditation on the American Dream." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
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“The wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we've yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell."
Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review
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Joseph O’Neill was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1964, and raised inMozambique, Iran, Turkey and the Netherlands.He has a law degree from Cambridge University, and practiced full time as a barrister in London from 1990 to 1998, specializing in business law. In 1998 he moved to New York City, where he lives in the Chelsea Hotel with his wife, Sally Singer, an editor at Vogue, and three sons.
 Irish American Writers and Artists
An Evening in Tribute to Danny Cassidy
Thursday, September 25 | 7PM
Admission: Supporter $100 | Friend $250 | Patron $500
For further information on this event please call 212.757.3318
ext 204
An all-star cast of Irish-American writers
and musicians come together for a special
tribute to Danny Cassidy, Irish-American
musician, teacher, labor activist and author
of the groundbreaking book How the
Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language
of the Crossroads.Participants include
Dan Barry, Ashley Davis, Maureen Dezell, Ivan Goff, T.J. English,
Terry Golway, Pete Hamill, Tom Kelly, William Kennedy,
Michael Patrick MacDonald, Frank McCourt, Malachy McCourt,
Mick Moloney, Peter Quinn, Washington Square Harp and
Shamrock Orchestra and other special guests to be announced.
Raffle prizes include a free week of accommodation and Irish-language instruction at, Oideas Gael, Glenn Cholm Cille, Co. Donegal, signed books and CDS of participating artists, and Airfare for two to Ireland on Aer Lingus. |
Irish Arts Center
in association with
Georganne Aldrich Heller
and Semper Fi (Ireland)
presents the American premiere
of the award-winning theatrical event
 Ladies and Gents
Performed in the Bethesda Fountain Restrooms
Central Park
Written and Directed by Paul Walker
Original Direction by Karl Shiels
A site-specific noir thriller set in a public restroom in 1957 Dublin, “Ladies and Gents” has shocked and delighted audiences and critics alike from Dublin to Edinburgh. Winner of the Edinburgh Fringe First Award.
Limited Engagement!
| March 17th – 29th |
Performances at 7PM, 8PM, and 9PM nightly
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 Easter Rising
An Evening with Michael Patrick MacDonald
Thursday, February 28th at
7:30 P.M.
$15 General sale/ $10 Irish Arts Center Members
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Michael Patrick MacDonald is the author of the national bestseller All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, which won the American Book Award. He has been a guest columnist for the Boston Globe and recenly completed the screenplay of All Souls for director Ron Shelton. Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion is his second book.
MacDonald, who lives in Brooklyn, grew up in South Boston's Old Colony housing project. He helped launch many of Boston's antiviolence initiatives, including gun-buyback programs and the South Boston Vigil Group, and he continues to work nationally with survivor families and young people in the antiviolence movement.
Join us for a special evening with this remarkable storyteller as he examines the relationship between his work as an author and activist, discusses his latest projects, and launches the paperback release of Easter Rising.
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“Funny and heartbreaking….MacDonald is a compelling storyteller”
Newsweek
"MacDonald is a fine writer, with a terrific ear for dialogue”
The Washington Post
"MacDonald's prose--muscular and insistently alive--quivers like a fist about to take a swing….refreshing."
San Francisco Chronicle
“Heartwrenching.... up there with the very best comic writing of Seamus Deane and Patrick McCabe ... with this masterpiece Michael Patrick MacDonald has set an audacious benchmark in Irish-American literature”
Andersonstown News, Belfast, Ireland
Irish Arts Center New Plays Partnership
 LITTLE BLACK DRESS
Staged Reading of a New Play by Ronan Noone
Directed by Ari Edelson
Monday, February 4th at
7.30 PM
Free Event!
In a small Midwestern town Charly Kennedy needs help with his booming gigolo business, and hires his best friend, Jimmy, to help out. Jimmy agrees as long as his mother, Amy, doesn’t find out. An outrageous satire on the “pursuit of happiness," Little Black Dress asks what you have to sacrifice when chasing the American dream.
Ronan Noone, originally from Clifden, Co. Galway, is the author of The Lepers of Baile Baiste and The Blowin of Baile Gall, which had its Off-Broadway premiere at the Irish Arts Center in 2005. His most recent plays, The Atheist (starring Campbell Scott) and Brendan received enthusiastic reviews and played to sold-out audiences at Boston’s Huntington Theatre in 2007.
"Noone's plays are now the highlight of any given theatre season!"
The Boston Globe
“(A) talent likely heading for The Great White Way”
San Francisco Bay Times
As a director, Ari Edelson has worked both in the US and internationally, with recent credits including: Vengeance (Cherry Lane), Expats (The New Group (naked), NY), Jump! and Realism (The Exchange, NY), The Attic (Play Company, NY, Obie Award), The Atheist (Theatre 503, London), Blood Wedding, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Theatre Project Tokyo), True West and Tape (Tokyo Globe), Rape of Lucretia (English National Opera, London and Luxembourg). He has also worked with such companies as La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf, the Old Vic, Circle in the Square, the Royal National Theatre, Theatre Royal Haymarket, The Vineyard Theatre, The New Group and the Westport Country Playhouse. In additions to his roles at the Exchange, the Orchard Project and with Old Vic New Voices, he has been a guest director on attachment at New Dramatists, a Directing Fellow of the Drama League of New York, and has taught at Northwestern University, Fordham University and in Japan. He graduated from Yale University and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
The Irish Arts Center New Plays Partnership links playwrights with directors, offers a safe space for the development of new work, and provides exposure to a wide network of New York-based theatre professionals.
 ROCK DOVES
A New Comedy by Marie Jones
Directed by Ian McElhinney
presented in association with Georganne Aldrich Heller
and Anita Waxman
Rock Doves ran from September 6, 2007 to
October 28, 2007
Set in Belfast – a thriving city now that the “Troubles” are
over – Rock Dovescenters around four wild and colorful
characters as they navigate the “new” Northern Ireland:
a squatter, a prostitute, a cross-dresser… and a teenager who
still thinks he is fighting the war. In Marie Jones’ signature
comedic style, Rock Dovesoffers an affectionate portrait
of the resilience and humanity of people who will do anything
to survive. Featuring Natalie Brown, Johnny Hopkins,
Marty Maguire (A Night in November),and Tim Ruddy
(The Blowin of Baile Gall).
From the Olivier-winning,Tony-nominated team behind the international
hit Stones in His Pockets.
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