The Sean O’Casey festival takes place at the Sean O’Casey Theatre and Community centre in East Wall, Dublin at 6:30 pm on Monday 11 September until 23 Se.
Celebrating the life of Philip Chevron ten years after his passing, Sarah Lundberg Summer School is hosting a free event this June at Sean O'Casey Theatre: .
Hall of Fame: Irish Repertory Theatre Founders Charlotte Moore & Ciarán O Reilly irishamerica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from irishamerica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Neil Hickey, Contributor
The year is 1980. A former movie actor, Ronald Reagan, whose great-grandfather was an emigrant from the village of Ballyporeen in County Tipperary, is the newly-elected, 40th president of the United States. That same year another emigrant, Ciarán O’Reilly from County Cavan, was performing in an off-Broadway play called
Summer by the Irish writer Hugh Leonard, where he met an actress, Charlotte Moore – granddaughter of expatriates from County Wexford – who was a fellow member of the cast.
Thus begins the origin story of the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York, the most renowned theater company in the U.S., devoted exclusively to staging “the works of Irish and Irish-American classic and contemporary playwrights” (according to its mission statement) and providing a hearth and a home for audiences to savor the work of dramatists from Goldsmith, Synge, Wilde, and Yeats, to Beckett, Shaw, Friel, and Behan, as well as musicals with an Irish tilt: