Theater
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“The Beauty Queen of Leenane” is a Stellar Production
The Irish Heritage Theatre’s production of playwright Martin McDonagh’s award-winning play, “The Beauty Queen of Leenane,” is not to be missed. Originally presented by the Druid Theatre Company, the play made its debut performance in 1996 at the Town Hall Theatre in Galway with McDonagh hailed as the most promising new playwright. Set in a rural cottage in the west of Ireland, the play explores the two women’s dysfunctional relationship between the elderly manipulative mother […] Read More
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‘Duffy’s Cut’: Local Oncology Nurse and Playwright Tells a Ghost Story with a Modern Moral
When Einstein oncology nurse Liz Kerr sat down to write an ambitious three-act play about 57 Irish railroad workers and two women buried in a deep mass grave not far from the tracks in East Whiteland Township, she had an unusual muse. It was the ghost of young John Ruddy, believed to have been savagely murdered by nativists who wrongly blamed the Irish for bringing cholera to a nearby town near the worksite now known […] Read More
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Podcast: Interview with Merton Play Actress Kirsten Quinn
“Rendezvous in Bangkok … Who Killed Thomas Merton,” written by Sabina Clarke and Thom Nickels, premiered in 2021. It’s back, revised, for a performance at the Commodore Barry Arts & Cultural Center (the Irish Center) Sunday, Sept. 22. What follows is a transcript of an audio interview with Kirsten Quinn, who portrays Merton friend Joan Baez. She is also the casting director. Quinn is associated with several theater groups in the Philadelphia area, including, notably, […] Read More