Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti will star in an Off Broadway production of A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters for a (very) limited run: The production at the Irish Repertory Theatre will run from May 30 to June 4 for eight performances.
The Gurney play will be the second of two parts of Irish Rep’s The Letters Series, which will kick off with Jerome Kilty & George Bernard Shaw’s Dear Liar starring Melissa Errico and David Staller. That play will start its eight-performance run on April 25 and conclude April 30.
Both productions will be performed on the Irish Rep’s 148-seat Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage.
Melissa Errico, David Staller (Courtesy Production)
Love Letters will be directed by Irish Rep producing director Ciarán O’Reilly, and Dear Liar will be directed by the company’s artistic director Charlotte Moore.
Adapted from the correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Dear Liar will feature Staller as Shaw and the Tony Award-nominated Errico (Amour)as Campbell.
Broderick last appeared on the New York stage in the hit 2020 Broadway revival of Plaza Suite, co-starring wife Sarah Jessica Parker. Benanti, a Tony winner for Gypsy, was last on Broadway in 2018’s My Fair Lady.
A Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama, Love Letters is comprised of letters exchanged between two friends over a lifetime, from childhood through marriages and the ups and downs of adulthood.
The Gurney play will be the second of two parts of Irish Rep’s The Letters Series, which will kick off with Jerome Kilty & George Bernard Shaw’s Dear Liar starring Melissa Errico and David Staller. That play will start its eight-performance run on April 25 and conclude April 30.
Both productions will be performed on the Irish Rep’s 148-seat Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage.
Melissa Errico, David Staller (Courtesy Production)
Love Letters will be directed by Irish Rep producing director Ciarán O’Reilly, and Dear Liar will be directed by the company’s artistic director Charlotte Moore.
Adapted from the correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Dear Liar will feature Staller as Shaw and the Tony Award-nominated Errico (Amour)as Campbell.
Broderick last appeared on the New York stage in the hit 2020 Broadway revival of Plaza Suite, co-starring wife Sarah Jessica Parker. Benanti, a Tony winner for Gypsy, was last on Broadway in 2018’s My Fair Lady.
A Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama, Love Letters is comprised of letters exchanged between two friends over a lifetime, from childhood through marriages and the ups and downs of adulthood.
- 3/28/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: New York’s Irish Repertory Theatre has announced an upcoming online run of four plays, becoming what could be Off Broadway’s first summer season created specifically for virtual viewing. Included in the line-up is the world premiere of Darren Murphy’s short play The Gifts You Gave to the Dark, with characters affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Like all Broadway and most Off Broadway theaters, Irish Rep is under shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly all New York venues have been dark since mid-March.
Announced today by artistic director Charlotte Moore and producing director Ciarán O’Reilly, Irish Rep’s first online summer season will feature three of the company’s more popular recent productions reimagined for the screen and filmed remotely – Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom, The Weir and Love, Noël: The Songs and Letters of Noël Coward – as well as the world premiere of Darren Murphy...
Like all Broadway and most Off Broadway theaters, Irish Rep is under shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly all New York venues have been dark since mid-March.
Announced today by artistic director Charlotte Moore and producing director Ciarán O’Reilly, Irish Rep’s first online summer season will feature three of the company’s more popular recent productions reimagined for the screen and filmed remotely – Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom, The Weir and Love, Noël: The Songs and Letters of Noël Coward – as well as the world premiere of Darren Murphy...
- 5/21/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
On Broadway and beyond, a curtain can rise as quickly as it can fall; a star can be swapped as easily as Bernie Telsey can say, “That’s enough.” Theater is the beating heart of New York show business and, if you want to make it here, it’s crucial you’re up to date on incoming projects, latest castings, and other industry news. Don’t worry, Broadway baby, Backstage has your back. Every week, we’re rounding up the can’t-miss stories no thespian should live without, so you can focus on important matters like hitting your high F. Curtain up and light those lights! Matthew Broderick returns to the New York stage.Two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick has lined up his next New York stage outing, this time Off-Broadway. Broderick will lead the Irish Repertory Theatre’s production of “The Seafarer,” beginning performances March 30. Written by Conor McPherson,...
- 2/8/2018
- backstage.com
Tom Hanks and Shirley Jones joined Irish Repertory Theatre's Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director, and Ciaran O'Reilly, Producing Director, as the Off-Broadway company celebrated its 25th anniversary with Something Wonderful The Songs Of Rodgers amp Hammerstein, an evening celebrating classic Rodgers and Hammerstein hits performed by a galaxy of Broadway stars, for one night only, on Monday, June 10 at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre 235 West 44th Street. Check out a look back at the event below...
- 6/11/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York -- Noted American playwright Eugene O'Neill had a melancholy view of life's possibilities, which didn't prevent him from winning several Pulitzer Prizes for his dramas, including one for his first full-length play, the 1920 tragedy, "Beyond the Horizon."
The turgid domestic drama, about life-altering, mistaken choices that slowly crush a family's dreams, is currently in a smart, touching, if expectedly depressing off-Broadway revival at The Irish Repertory Theatre.
In rural 1907 eastern Massachusetts, two close brothers in their early 20s are both in love with Ruth, the farm girl next door. Younger Mayo brother Robert, a bookish dreamer following a sickly childhood, is about to embark on his life's ambition, heading on a round-the-world sea voyage for three years with his uncle. Brother Andrew has no curiosity about the greater world, and is looking forward to helping their father run the farm, while secretly hoping to marry Ruth.
But when...
The turgid domestic drama, about life-altering, mistaken choices that slowly crush a family's dreams, is currently in a smart, touching, if expectedly depressing off-Broadway revival at The Irish Repertory Theatre.
In rural 1907 eastern Massachusetts, two close brothers in their early 20s are both in love with Ruth, the farm girl next door. Younger Mayo brother Robert, a bookish dreamer following a sickly childhood, is about to embark on his life's ambition, heading on a round-the-world sea voyage for three years with his uncle. Brother Andrew has no curiosity about the greater world, and is looking forward to helping their father run the farm, while secretly hoping to marry Ruth.
But when...
- 2/27/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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