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It Sure Beats Riverdance: McDonagh Comes to Broadway
As Oscar Wilde lives and breathes, where would English drama be without the Irish? There’s Wilde himself, of course, and G.B. Shaw, not to forget Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Samuel Beckett and Brendan...
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How to Murder Your Mother the Old-Fashioned Way
I must offer a minority opinion about Martin McDonagh’s raved-over The Beauty Queen of Leenane, and it’s a shame. The sold-out production at the Atlantic Theater Company is soon to transfer to...
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City’s Irish Exiles Aren’t Thrilled
A ceramic portrait of Irish hunger-striker Bobby Sands hangs in the upstairs window of Hugh O’Lunney’s bar on West 43rd Street, his wan smile and political legacy looming large over the room in which...
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Waving or Drowning In the Irish New Wave?
Well, now. They’re back! Though the Irish never really went away. It’s been said for generations: Where would English drama be without the Irish? But where would American drama be? Here we have two...
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The Bloody Brilliant Debut of a Baby Bard From Dublin
You must see Howie the Rookie by the Irish dramatist Mark O’Rowe, who’s only 30 years old. The piece represents an original voice and a staggering achievement. I can think of no more vital theater in...
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Uh-Oh, Here It Comes …McDonagh’s Masterly Nightmare
The four most promising words in any language are “Once upon a time …. ” Unless, that is, we use just two, “One day …. ” And this much I know. One day, Martin McDonagh sat down someplace and wrote a...
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Martin McDonagh’s Lieutenant: Best Bloody Play I Ever Saw
It’s great news that Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore is to transfer to Broadway. Not only is Wilson Milam’s production of the dark comedy for the Atlantic Theater Company perfect, but Mr....
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Martin McDonagh’s Lieutenant: Best Bloody Play I Ever Saw
It’s great news that Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore is to transfer to Broadway. Not only is Wilson Milam’s production of the dark comedy for the Atlantic Theater Company perfect, but Mr....
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Bruges Brothers
A few days before the opening of their movie In Bruges, actor Colin Farrell and writer-director Martin McDonagh sat comfortably beside one another at the Regency Hotel. The film, which co-stars Brendan...
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Raindrops Keep Falling on Their Heads
When the Rain Stops Falling, the intriguing, confusing and ultimately moving new play by Andrew Bovell that opened at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater Monday night, opens with a fish falling...
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Going to the Dogs: With Seven Psychopaths, The Once-Masterful McDonagh Stays...
Harrelson and Walken in Seven Psychopaths. Garbage comes in all sizes, and every one of them seems to fit into a load of violent, hateful and incomprehensible trash called Seven Psychopaths. Written by...
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‘The Present’: Director John Crowley Delivers a Birthday Cate (Blanchett) to...
During the past decade, Cate Blanchett from faraway Down Under has dazzlingly paraded some world-famed females before New York audiences—Hedda Gabler, one of The Maids, Blanche DuBois, Vanya’s Elena...
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Mary Mullen Returns to Martin McDonagh’s ‘Beauty Queen of Leenane’
Marie Mullen has made only one stop on Broadway, but it won her the Tony for Best Actress in a Play. She played Maureen Folan, a 40-year-old plain Jane resigned to a life of terminal spinsterhood...
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