As you turn into a quiet street in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, the façade of the Irish Repertory Theatre edges into view. The former warehouse is the home of New York’s only theatre dedicated to Irish and Irish-American drama. As part of its 30th anniversary celebrations, the Irish Rep is staging Sean O’Casey’s “Dublin” trilogy over a series of weeks, beginning with The Shadow of a Gunman. “There was the Puerto Rico travelling theatre company, the Jewish Repertory Theatre company. Hundreds of thousands of copies of O’Casey’s plays and autobiographies were sold, he notes, while many of his lesser-known plays were performed on Broadway.

Source: The Irish Times March 07, 2019 04:52 UTC