The Blarney Star Concert Series: Jimmy Crowley
Glucksman Ireland House NYU 1 Washington Mews, NEW YORK, NY, United StatesJoin us for an evening of Irish folk music with guitarist, pioneer of the Irish bouzouki, and singer Jimmy Crowley.
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Mickey Coleman in Concert
New York Irish Center 10-40 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY, United States"A rising star in the folk music firmament" Mickey Coleman in Concert This show is in support of FIGHTING BLINDNESS an Irish Charity (click on logo for more details) Friday October 30 Doors 7pm Showtime 8pm Advance Tickets via Credit or Debit Card $22 ea. $25 ea. on the Door New York Irish Center 10-40 […]
$22
Jalopy Ceilidh/CD release party for Iona Session
Jalopy 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesCome join us to celebrate the release of 'Island Wild' the Iona Scottish Session CD at Jalopy Theatre and School of Music. We've invited our friends from some of the great traditional music sessions of New York to perform and then play for called Contra, Scottish and Irish dancing and invite YOU to come down for top night […]
The End
Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, West Side YMCA 10 W 64th St, New York, NY, United StatesIn this solo performance of Beckett’s 1946 short story The End, Irish actor Conor Lovett—“one of the world’s leading interpreters of the work” (Sunday Independent)—portrays a derelict journeying literally and figuratively toward his own mundane end. Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett, co-founder of Gare St. Lazare Ireland, this theatrical rendering depicts a man easing into […]
$70
Here All Night
Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, West Side YMCA 10 W 64th St, New York, NY, United States“Night here, here we, we night.” The unparalleled Beckett champions of Gare St. Lazare Ireland present the U.S. premiere of a stunning new theatrical work for soprano and actor. In this clever mix of folk and high art, the ensemble incorporates music from Samuel Beckett’s novel Watt, as well as Beckett poems and texts set […]
$70
Irish Arts Center’s POETRYFEST
Irish Arts Center 553 West 51st Street, New York, NY, United StatesIRISH ARTS CENTER’s POETRYFEST CONTEMPORARY POETRY FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC Presented in Association with Literary Hub and Glucksman Ireland House – NYU November 6 – 8, 2015 Irish Arts Center presents the seventh annual POETRYFEST celebrating Ireland and America’s great literary connection by showcasing an array of superb poets from both countries. The […]
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White Light Conversation: Language and Human Consciousness
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse 165 West 65th Street, New York, United StatesJoin us for this free discussion as we explore the complex connections between language and human consciousness. The 90-minute conversation will be moderated by John Schaefer, host of WNYC’s Soundcheck and New Sounds. Author Colum McCann, composer Joan La Barbara, experimental psychologist Steven Pinker, music historian Gary Tomlinson, and other leading thinkers will consider the […]
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No’s Knife
Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, West Side YMCA 10 W 64th St, New York, NY, United StatesBeckett referred to his Texts for Nothing as the “afterbirth” of his novel The Unnameable, a representation of how he went on after it was no longer possible to go on. Here, Irish actor and “Beckett prodigy” Lisa Dwan (New York Times) brings her penetrating vision to several of Beckett’s imagery-rich texts, offering her own […]
$70
Waiting for Beckett—A Portrait of Samuel Beckett
Bruno Walter Auditorium, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, United StatesThis spellbinding profile of the Nobel Prize–winning author and playwright offers an illuminating look into one of the 20th century’s greatest literary minds. A blend of rare archival footage of the famously publicity-shy Beckett, performances of his work, interviews with friends and scholars, and excerpts from his letters provide intriguing and often humorous insight into […]
$15
“No Dead End” Readings of Mark Donnelly’s new play at St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights
Readings of Mark Donnelly's new play "No Dead End" at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights on Friday and Saturday evenings, November 13 and 14, starting at 7:30, 182 Remsen St. Friday night in Maroney Forum for the Arts, Education and Culture on 7th Floor. Saturday night in Founders Hall Auditorium on 1st Floor. Featured […]
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