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A scene from “The Walworth Farce.”

Definitely Not the Whole Truth

Inis Nua presents Enda Walsh’s “The Walworth Farce,” a play within a play focusing on the stories we tell ourselves to keep going on.

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Leaving Ireland, with regrets.

Philadelphia, Here They Come

The brand-new Irish Heritage Theatre has been a long time coming, but with its ambitious first play, Brian Friel’s “Philadelphia, Here I Come!,” it’s ready to entertain you.

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Drawing Inspiration

Susan Kelly Von Medicus has created hundreds of icons, compelling Byzantine-style images that provide a gateway to the divine.

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Seamus Kelleher

CD Review: “Another Side of Town”

The second solo album from Galway-born Seamus Kelleher, former Blackthorn guitarist, is even better than the first.

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Craicdown 2011

This year’s benefit show for the Inis Nua Theatre Company at World Cafe Live was, well … theatrical.

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Reagan

No Accident That She’s Supporting Inis Nua

By chance, singer-songwriter Reagan Richards met an actor from Philly’s only theater company producing contemporary plays from Ireland. But it’s not by accident that she’s performed at Inis Nua’s annual “Craicdown” fundraiser for the past few years. She’s back on December 6 for this wild night of music at World Cafe Live.

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womanandscarecrow

A Director’s View of “Woman and Scarecrow”

Actor-friar David Cregan directs the acclaimed Irish play by Marina Carr. It’s the product of a unique new relationship between Villanova University and the Abbey Theatre.

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dublin by lamplight

Inis Nua Theatre Company Nominated for 3 Barrymore Awards

The cast of “Dublin by Lamplight,” now in New York as part of the New York Irish Theatre Festival, is up for “outstanding ensemble in a play” award. The awards ceremony is Monday night.

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