Culture
Moloney opens new Dublin-set play Off Broadway
(Novelist Colum McCann will lead a talk-back session after Tuesday night's performance of "Eva the Chaste." PHOTOCALL) It's difficult to imagine th...
July 07, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
My Irish and American identities
New York is so quiet during the summer, but it’s nice to have a break from teaching classes, attending events, dinner dances etc. and to spend time...
July 06, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
This production 'Measures' up
Measure for Measure By William Shakespeare • Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, NYC • Through July ...
July 06, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Carty and Rooney play 'at complete ease'
Two of my top ten Irish traditional albums for 2005 were "Within a Mile of Kilty" by Ben, Charlie, and Maurice Lennon, Brian Rooney, Seamus Quinn, ...
July 06, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
The Bard's works in a minor key; Bloomsday celebration marks 3rd decade
"All's Well That Ends Well" By William Shakespeare • Shakespeare in the Park • Directed by Daniel Sullivan • Through July 31, 2011 Director Daniel ...
June 29, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
The wild, the innocent, and the Sig Phi shuffle
Once in a while, a “Ceol” reader will ask what my musical life was like before I arrived in the N.Y./N.J. metro area in 1978. This subject came up ...
June 29, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Step by step
Director-producer Sue Bourne says she loved the challenge of making a film that offers a rare glimpse inside the fierce and passionate world of com...
June 23, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
A tangled web
"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" • A musical based on the Marvel Comics character • Book by Julie Taymor, Glen Berger and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa • M...
June 23, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Mulligan's 'Dark' victory
"Through a Glass Darkly" By Ingmar Bergman • With Carey Mulligan • Atlantic Theater Company • New York Theatre Workshop, East Fourth St., NYC • Thr...
June 23, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Mad for trad in the mountains
At the upcoming Catskills Irish Arts Week, the premier summer school for Irish traditional music and dance in America, about 70 instructors will te...
June 22, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Rigidity, moral fervor paves road to hell
H.L. Mencken defined Puritanism as the "haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." And much as we'd like to define our America as being ...
June 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
'Born Yesterday' gets a contemporary spin today
"Born Yesterday" by Garson Kanin • Directed by Doug Hughes • Cort Theatre, NYC • Open-Ended Run In 1946, when Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday" went ...
June 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff