Topic: Conor Mcpherson

Buffalo Spree: Road Less Traveled

January . ( WKBW / Buffalo Spree ) The Road Less Traveled Productions company of Buffalo has much to celebrate. As Buffalo Spree theater critic...
Rather than compete with the glut of holiday shows in December, the West End Players Guild delayed its Christmas play until January. Mostly set on...

The Eclipse

Acclaimed as one of the best Irish playwrights of his generation, Conor McPherson has earned his rep as a first-rate dynamo of the theater: Which makes you wonder if there's another Conor McPherson lurking out there, a filmmaker who coincidentally shares ...
Playwrights Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson are in a war of words over Irish identity.. . Dublin-born McPherson dismissed London-born McDonagh ...
Film by Irish playwright Conor McPherson wins praise and interest at TribecaConor McPherson has made the leap from stage to screen, ghosts in tow.The acclaimed Irish playwright premiered his film " The Eclipse" at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it was met ...
Look, we can talk later about how it's a near-perfect comedy of manners, and about how it has Wilde's wicked wit and Shaw's jaundiced eye and Coward's way with words, but all you really need to know about ...

Safe

Ron Fitzgerald's Safe takes the parallel-monologue approach to a modern Bonnie and Clyde story. Bored, desperate lovers (Darragh, Weixler) hit the road to steal, accompanied, in this case, by a quasi-simpleton they pick up along the way (Narciso). Such speechifying can ...

Port Authority

Shakespeare counted seven ages of man, but Conor McPherson seems content with three. There they are-young Kevin (Gallagher), middle-aged Dermot (James) and elderly Joe (Norton)-Dubliners sharing a public bench on a stark, gloomy stage. If McPherson's plays had an odor ...
AN AP ARTS REVIEW: in `The Seafarer,' a Boozy Christmas Eve Brings SurprisesThere's nothing like a little liquor to unlock a play and its characters.And the booze flows freely in "The Seafarer," Conor McPherson's haunting yet often hilarious tale ...

Seafarer, Farnsworth May Reschedule Openings

With the stagehands strike now in its third day and the opening nights of Conor McPherson's spooky romp The Seafarer and Aaron Sorkin's buzzed-about The Farnsworth Invention quickly approaching, producers of those shows are contemplating rescheduling the official opening nights ...