Culture
Wholly entertaining
"Sister Act" • Produced by Whoopi Goldberg, Directed by Jerry Zaks • Music: Alan Menken, Lyrics: Glenn Slater • Broadway Theater, NYC • Open-ended ...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
After the downsizing
Thomas E. Kennedy's latest work "Falling Sideways" is a rare commodity, commented the Washington Post's Jonathan Yardley recently, a "literary nove...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Making book on Joe Burke and Mairtin O'Connor
The most hallowed and dog-eared collections of Irish traditional tunes are those compiled by Bantry-born, longtime Chicago resident Francis O'Neill...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Ridiculous, absurd, but instantly recognizable
Dublin's reforming Archbishop Diarmuid Martin might approve of the novel "The Brothers' Lot," which is set in a Dublin school run by the Brothers o...
August 17, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Earley shines in breakout role
"Death Takes a Holiday" By Thomas Meehan/Peter Stone • Music & Lyrics: Maury Yeston • Directed by Doug Hughes • Roundabout Theatre Company, Laura P...
August 17, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Cherish the Ladies travel down 'country crossroads'
For several years in a row, Vince Gill, who personifies the best in country music as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer, hosted the Coun...
August 17, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Vindication can be sweet
Author John Connolly is expected at NYU in September. Between the Lines / By Peter McDermott William Geary was a 29-year-old policeman when he was ...
August 10, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Williams in a minor key
The Pretty Trap By Tennessee Williams • A Cause Celebre Production, Acorn Theatre, Theatre Row, NYC • Through August 21, 2011 If he were still aliv...
August 10, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
O'Brien and O Raghallaigh create a 'deadly buzz'
To bee or not to bee: that was the question facing native Dublin musicians Mick O'Brien and Caoimhin O Raghallaigh. How do they follow up the treme...
August 10, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
The write stuff
Celebrated NYPD detective and author, Ed Conlon, drew 104 years of family service in the Long Blue Line to a close two weeks ago with his retiremen...
August 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Daly shows mastery in 'Class'
Master Class by Terrence McNally • Starring Tyne Daly • Directed by Stephen Wadsworth • Manhattan Theatre Club, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre • Throug...
August 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Gleeson relishes cop role in 'The Guard'
Brendan Gleeson says the chance to play Irish Police Sergeant Gerry Boyle in the new dark comedy "The Guard" was simply too irresistible to pass up...
August 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff