“So fill to me the parting glass
Good night and joy be with you all.”
Our 2013-2014 season comes to a close with a series of special one-night-only events celebrating Irish Art & Culture.
An Irish Summer Céile
July 29, 2014 @ 7:30pm
A glorious celebration of Irish traditional music, set dancing, and storytelling. This evening features Donie Carroll as Master of Cermonies and Margie Mulvihill on flute, John Reynolds on fiddle, Don Meade on banjo, John Nolan on button accordion, and Gabriel Donohue on piano and guitar backing vocalist Marian Makins. Dan Larkin will tell home spun Irish tales in the tradition of the great Irish shanachai (storyteller) Eamon Kelly!
Dancers include: Bridie and Jon Dal Pizzol, John and Mary Carney, Brendan Burke and Rae Luzzi, Bridie Martin and Paul Keating
SOLD OUT; On the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage, Tickets: $25
The Return of the Lark
July 31, 2014 @ 7:30pm
Mary Deady, “The Irish Lark” returns to the Irish Rep for an encore performance of From Ireland to America and Back: A Musical Journey in Song. The evening is devised and directed by Bill Ndini and accompanied by Musical Director Jeff Cubeta.
SOLD OUT; On the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage, Tickets: $25
I Will Arise And Go Now<
August 5, 2014 @ 7:30pm
A blend of beloved poems, songs, stories and music by Nobel Prize-winning poet William Butler Yeats, read by a roster of Irish Rep actors and guests who have enchanted audiences for the past 25 years. The Yeats canon, accompanied by a chronology of notes and letters written by the Master Himself, brings his life into brilliant focus while musical accompaniment enriches his written word.
Featured in the cast are Rufus Collins, Terry Donnelly, Patrick Fitzgerald, Ciaran O’Reilly, Brian Murray, & Kitty Sullivan.
SOLD OUT; On the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage, Tickets: $25