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Off-Broadway Review: “The Butcher Boy” at Irish Repertory Theatre (Through Sunday, September 11, 2022)

August 22, 2022 | butcher boy, Off-Broadway > | "The Butcher Boy", Amanda Quaid is the Dialect Coach, Andrea Lynn Green, April Ann Kline is the Production Stage Manager, Asher Muldoon, Barry McNabb, Carey Rebecca Brown, Carol Rosegg, Casting is by JZ Casting, Christian Strange, Ciarán O’Reilly, costume design by Orla Long, Dan Macke, Daniel Marconi, David Baida, David Hancock Turner, David Roberts, Emma Camp, Emma Camp is the Assistant Choreographer, Irish Repertory Theatre, Jade Doina is the Assistant Stage Manager, Joe Cassidy, Kerry Conte, Liam Prendergast is the Assistant Director, lighting design by Kat Zhou, Mask Design is by Stanley Allan Sherman Mask Arts Company, Michele Ragusa, Nicholas Barasch, orchestrations by Muldoon and Sammy Grob, Patrick McCabe, Polly McKie, projection design by Dan Scully, Properties are by Brandy Hoang Collier, Rick Sordelet is the Fight Director, Sam Hartley, scenic design by Charlie Corcoran, Scott Stangland, sound design by M. Florian Staab, Teddy Trice, Theatre Reviews Limited

As children fishing together and hanging out at the hide they had built in the chicken house, Francie Brady (an emotive and troubled Nicholas Barasch) and Joe Purcell (the effervescent and spirited understudy Dan Macke at this performance) know they could “live this way forever.” But both boys live in Ireland’s troubling neocolonial times. The political violence and the economic…

“Belleville” at the New York Theatre Workshop (Closed April 14, 2013)

March 4, 2013 | butcher boy, Off-Broadway, trouble in mind > | New York Theatre Workshop

“Homey: The boys, the ones you not only like, but trust. Term of endearment towards another signifying closeness. Examples: You homeys got my back, right? Hey, you will always be my homey.” (Urban Dictionary) Star-crossed homeys Abby (Maria Dizzia) and Zack (Greg Keller) transfer their struggling marriage of five years from the United States to Belleville, a colorful multi-ethnic neighborhood…