Perish the thought! But it's a possibility Riverdance producers Moya Doherty and John McColgan are prepared for. The power couple are already working on a new show that picks up where Riverdance leaves off. "I call is Riverdance meets Les Miserables," McColgan told the Irish Voice. "It will be a major show that takes us away from Riverdance and on to something of a broad … [Read more...] about Life After Riverdance?
Theater
Hibernia: The Weir
Travels to Milwaukee
The Milwaukee Repertory Theater is producing The Weir by Conor McPherson, one of Ireland's hottest new playwrights. The play will run from October 22 to November 12 at the Steimke Theatre. A story full of ghostly tales and a tragic secret, it has been hailed as "a modern classic" by the Daily Telegraph. ♦ … [Read more...] about Hibernia: The Weir
Travels to Milwaukee
Stage Irish
By Retta Blaney
March/April 1997
From East to West Coast, Irish theater companies are booming as never before. The creation of the Thomas Davis Irish Players conjures an image of monks in monasteries, copying manuscripts with quills. The year was 1933 and seven young Irishmen, some of whom had been actors in Ireland, were studying for their high school equivalency tests in New York City. Missing their … [Read more...] about Stage Irish
The Steward of Irish Theater
By Diana Barth
January/February 1997
Although the brilliance of actor Donal McCann is well-known abroad – even a Dublin cabdriver praised him as a "great actor" to this writer on the trip from the airport to the city center -- McCann's name seems a well-kept secret in the U.S. That oversight should be corrected when Donal McCann opens, in the starting role, in Sebastian Barry's luminous, moving, poetic memory play … [Read more...] about The Steward of Irish Theater