After Luke explores the greed-driven frenzy of the property market when a prodigal son returns to manipulate the sale of his family home.

In When I Was God, a son faces heartbreaking paternal expectations in sports. On the field of dreams, the referee is God, but what happens when God is made man?

The Irish Repertory Theatre
132 West 22nd Street (bet. 6th & 7th Aves)

$65 & $55
$20 if under age 35
Reservations: 212-727-2737

Supported by Culture Ireland

“See, love between a man and a woman, it’s—private. It happens where you never do see it. In rooms.” Ireland’s leading new writing powerhouse, Fishamble: The New Play Company, presents the acclaimed original production of The Pride of Parnell Street, by award-winning writer Sebastian Barry. This is an intimate, heroic tale of ordinary and extraordinary life on the streets of Dublin.

59E59 Theaters
59 East 59th Street (bet. Madison & Park Aves)

Supported by Culture Ireland

When a Palestinian luthier, a London songwriter, a time traveler, a troubled teen and a New Yorker dream of music, escape and home, they are drawn together by the global media, even as their communities and lives are shattered by the events it depicts. A play for five voices by five acclaimed Irish playwrights, Spinning the Times is a tapestry woven by articles from the New York press.

“Origin Theatre Company set a new standard in production quality and demonstrate their genuine commitment to bringing new works
to the stage.”
—The Irish Voice

59E59 Theaters
59 East 59th Street (bet. Madison & Park Aves)

Supported by Culture Ireland

In Ireland’s strange, beautiful and eerie small town of Rainwater Pond, tales of raw life and lost-and-found love unfold. Written and performed by leading Irish playwright Billy Roche, whose Rainwater Pond story “Table Manner” was the basis for Conor McPherson’s film Eclipse, which was screened at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival.

Irish Repertory Theatre
132 West 22nd Street (bet. 6th & 7th Aves)

A centenarian and his improbably even older “da” set out to find their heir with nothing more to guide them than a limp, a hobble and a prayer.

Manhattan Theatre Source
177 MacDougal Street (bet. West 8th St and Waverly Pl)

"Rise and shine, little piggies. Mama Sow has a bone to pick? A bone to chew! with one of you..."

Ireland has the highest percentage of people living in relative poverty in the EU, Even after “boom time” the disparity between rich and poor is the worst of any European community. The women of Dublin’s inner city remain a disenfranchised—but unbowed population. Renowned award winning playwright, Paula Meehan, herself a child of the inner city tells the mesmerizing story of several of these unrepresented women-traumatized they are, but still irrepressibly alive.

“Riveting, powerful, brilliantly lyrical.”
- Irish Times

"Taut tense, incisive humour"
- An Sionnach

The Gene Frankel Theatre
24 Bond Street (bet. Lafayette St & the Bowery)

Ireland’s forgotten heroes follow Ledwidge on a post-death journey as he finds himself walking the road he once walked, but where are they going? And will any of them ever reach home? An act of repatriation for Ireland’s forgotten heroes, Walking the Road gives voice to men whose lives and untimely deaths have traditionally undermined the linear narrative of nationalist Irish history.

The Players Loft Theatre
115 MacDougal Street (bet. West 3rd & Bleecker Sts)

Chelsea’s historic St. Peter’s Rectory plays an Irish manor house in this avant-garde environmental production, which explores the borders that still separate countries, lovers, siblings and friends.

“A penetrating portrait of extraordinary human connection.”
—Jonathan Kalb

“Adroitly seesaws between lust and romance, cynicism and hope.”
—Baltimore City Paper

St. Peter’s Rectory
346 West 20th Street (bet. 8th & 9th Aves)

Sent on a routine job, a Dublin thug unwittingly finds himself a fugitive for kidnapping and murder. Winner of the 1994 Stewart Parker award, Conor McPherson's The Good Thief is a riveting tale of comic hard luck and lurid violence.

In this comedy, estranged brothers reunite at their father’s wake to pay some very questionable “respects.” Which version of their tumultuous family history reflects the truth, and who sent those cheap flowers?

A panel discussion with Irish women working in the contemporary New York theatre. Presented in association with Origin Theatre Company, the talk will share thoughts, views and opinions on the journey of Irish women as they make their way through a life on the American stage.

1989: A remote Irish farmhouse...Two brothers are wrenched out of isolation when the future comes knocking at the door. Based on actual events, Antoine O Flatharta's searing one-act drama reveals how the past, present and future are inextricably linked.

“ a tough and subtle piece (…) in which the young are doomed to repeat what they cannot understand”
- Fintan O’Toole (Irish Times)

The Selfish Giant won’t let anyone share his beautiful garden, even when he’s on vacation. What can melt his heart and change his ways? Find out in this interactive musical play for children of all ages, adapted from Oscar Wilde’s classic short story. Preceded by an arts-and-crafts workshop in which young spectators will make the props for the play. Calling all young artists: We can’t stage our play without you!

Presented in association with the Mint Theater’s production of Is Life Worth Living? Chris Morash is the head of the school of English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and author of A History of Irish Theatre 1601 – 2000, winner of the 2002 Theatre Book Prize.

Supported by Culture Ireland

Based on performer Megan Riordan’s own life as the daughter of an Irish professional gambler in Las Vegas, Luck powers its way through questions of destiny, free will and faith against a fast-paced background of casino “games of chance,” in which audience members are invited to play. A quiz show cross-bred with a Vegas-style cocktail party, Luck is chock-full of interrogations, luck rituals, blackjack boot camp, old-school Vegas tunes and lots of cheese-balls.

When a mute cobbler mysteriously arrives at the remote, inhospitable island of Inishbollock, the local poets, undertakers and urchins are faced with a difficult reckoning. A grotesque, lyrical and humorous tragicomedy, reminiscent of Beckett and Synge.

An irreverent evening of Shavian snippets, scenes and songs with an all-star cast. Performers include Marian Seldes and Charles Busch. Brought to you by the creators of the four-year-old juggernaut series Project Shaw.

A panel discussion on Northern Irish theatre and its evolution over the past four decades.