Irish Heritage Theatre
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Conor McPherson’s Haunting “The Weir” Comes to the Irish Heritage Theatre
Picture yourself in a comfy little pub in Ireland’s rural County Leitrim in the 1990s. It’s a dark, rainy night, and a few of the locals are on hand for a comforting pint or two. The owner of the pub, Brendan, holds court behind the bar. There’s Jack, the local garage owner and mechanic, along with Jim, Jack’s assistant. Finbar, a businessman, is visiting. Lastly, there’s Valerie, the stranger, a blow-in from Dublin who’s renting […] Read More
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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