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A Touch of the Heart Irish actor Gabriel Byrne with his ex-wife, Ellen Barkin, at Glucksman Ireland House at NYU. (Photo: Nuala Purcell) By Declan O Kelly, Contributor
Gabriel Byrne is a true Renaissance man. As an actor, he is currently receiving accolades for his performance as Cornelius Melody in a New York production of Eugene O’Neill’s A Touch of the Poet. As a writer, he found much success with his autobiographical Pictures in My Head, and now he’s shown himself to be quite the photographer a photographer with a heart.
For what is less well-known about Byrne, who was born in Dublin in 1949, is that he serves as an ambassador for The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), which works for children’s rights, their survival and development.
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5 x 15: Five New Fifteen Minute Musicals - Beck Center for the Arts produces, as part of the tenth collaborative partnership with Baldwin Wallace University Music Theatre Program, the winners of National Alliance for Musical Theatre s 15-Minute Musical Theatre competition. Directors include Victoria Bussert, Ciara Renee, Jon Martinez, Nathan Henry, and Sara Bruner. Musicals created and composed by Lynne Shankel, Sara Cooper, Nico Juber, and more. Stream the virtual production 5 x 15: Five World Premiere Fifteen-Minute Musicals at your convenience anytime February 12 to February 28, 2021. click here
Adjust the Procedure - An Outbreak Infects Higher Education in Pandemic Drama Premiere. Spin Cycle in association with JCS Theater Company presents The World Premiere of ADJUST THE PROCEDURE, a new play by Jake Shore (The Devil Is On The Loose With An Axe In Marshalltown, Holy Moly, and Down The Mountain And Across The Stream) conceived during the pandemic and created with Zo
@ Home Winter Festival
The Irish Repertory Theatre begins its Theatre @ Home Winter Festival on Tuesday with its first of nine different productions that will run between January 26th – February 21st with each production playing at four different times throughout the month.
MOLLY SWEENEY
Molly Sweeney has lived in happy, capable, and independent darkness since she was ten months old. When Frank, her restless, unemployed, and enthusiastic husband, makes her blindness his latest cause, he recruits Mr. Rice, a once-famous surgeon who, despite being half-drowned in Irish whiskey, agrees to attempt to restore Molly’s sight. When the bandages come off, Molly, Frank, and Mr. Rice discover the differences between seeing and understanding as they face the terrible consequences of a medical miracle.