Ciarán O’Reilly

Off-Broadway News: Irish Repertory Theatre Announces Encore Presentation of A. R. Gurney’s “Love Letters” Beginning Wednesday, September 5, 2023

Irish Repertory Theatre (Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director and Ciarán O’Reilly, Producing Director) announced today that they will present an encore run of Love Letters by A.R. Gurney, directed by Ciarán O’Reilly (Endgame), following sold-out performances this past spring. The encore run will take place this fall, featuring five performances with returning star, Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick, joined by Talia…

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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…

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Irish Repertory Theatre Announces Its Online 2020 Season

Irish Repertory Theatre (Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director and Ciarán O’Reilly, Producing Director) is proud to announce its Online 2020 Fall Season. This fall will feature five Performances on Screen, including Belfast Blues written and performed by Geraldine Hughes (Molly Sweeney) and directed by Carol Kane (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”); Give Me Your Hand with poems by Paul Durcan (Daddy, Daddy) performed…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Dublin Carol” at Irish Repertory Theatre

October 1, 2019 | a christmas carol, irish repertory, Off-Broadway, review dublin carol > | "Dublin Carol", Carol Rosegg, Charlie Corcoran, Ciarán O’Reilly, Cillian Hegarty, Conor McPherson, Irish Repertory Theatre, Jeff Davolt, Jeffrey Bean, Leon Dobkowski, M. Florian Staab, Michael Gottlieb, Ryan Rumery, Sarah Street, Sven Henry Nelson

Undertaker John Plunkett (Jeffrey Bean) and his intern Mark (Cillian Hegarty) enter the office of a funeral home on the Northside of Dublin where John works. They have just finished a service and John compliments Mark on his work at the graveside. With that non-descript arrival, Conor McPherson’s “Dublin Carol,” currently playing at Irish Repertory Company, begins its narrative. Over…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Woman and Scarecrow” Challenges the Living at Irish Repertory Theatre’s W. Scott McLucas Stage

“[One] not busy being born is busy dying.” – Bob Dylan, “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” It is one thing to have an imaginary friend, created to be summoned at will for conversation, company, and surcease from sorrow. It is quite another thing to have an alter ego, perhaps once created, but able to appear at its will and…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Seafarer” at Irish Repertory Theatre

The latest offering of the Irish Repertory Theatre is the revival of “The Seafearer” by Conor McPherson, which opened on Broadway in 2007 and was nominated for a TONY award for best play that season. It follows the renowned style of the playwright, producing incredible natural dialogue, executed in somewhat ordinary life situations, with a collection of disreputable characters, and…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Emperor Jones” at Irish Repertory Theatre

“Ain’t a man’s talkin’ big what makes him big-long as he makes folks believe it? [Sure], I talks large when I ain’t got nothin’ to back it up, but I ain’t talkin’ wild just [the] same. I knows I kin fool ’em—I knows it—and [that’s] backin’ enough [for] my game.” – Brutus Jones It is not easy to watch Eugene…

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