Tickets are on sale for Aristocrats at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York. the latest stage performance to showcase the work of renowned Irish playwright Brian Friel. Irish Repertory Theatre, the ...

An ambitious five-year project celebrating the works of the late Brian Friel will stage each of the Irish dramatist's 29 plays in the location, setting and season in which it was set. FrielDays – a ...

"Dancing at Lughnasa," a revival of the late Irish dramatist Brian Friel's 1990 play, will open at the National Theatre in London next month. Rehearsals for the award-winning Irish drama, directed by ...

King's theatre, EdinburghBrian Friel's adaptation of a Chekhov story is about a couple playing games – but the audience are implicated too, writes Mark Fisher ...

High up in a quiet graveyard in rural Donegal lies the final resting place of one of Ireland’s finest playwrights. At Glenties cemetery, a simple, dark slab marks the grave of Brian Friel, who died at ...

Director Braden Abraham sends his audience into total darkness at the top of his gorgeous staging of writer Brian Friel’s “Translations,” a rich and prescient Irish drama from 1980 with characters ...

Since 1988 Irish Repertory Theatre has been devoted to bringing Irish and Irish-American works to the stage. Presenting classic and contemporary works, they are devoted to nurturing generations of ...

Director Joe Dowling enjoyed a strong connection to Irish playwright Brian Friel long before he ever thought he could make his own career in the theater. “I went to see his ‘Philadelphia, Here I Come’ ...

The playwright Brian Friel stands among the giants of Irish literature. From the 1980s onwards, he withdrew from media and public life. This film sets out to show, through family, friends, actors, ...

DUBLIN, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Brian Friel, Ireland's best known playwright of the latter half of the 20th century whose plays including "Dancing at Lughnasa", "The Faith Healer" and "Translations" were ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Irish Repertory Theater’s season-long survey of the playwright’s work prompted our reporter to seek out the Irish town that inspired the imaginary ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Brian Friel, widely considered to be Ireland's best living playwright, will be celebrated in an annual festival starting this August which this year will include a new production of ...