Culture
Step by step
Director-producer Sue Bourne says she loved the challenge of making a film that offers a rare glimpse inside the fierce and passionate world of com...
June 23, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
A tangled web
"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" • A musical based on the Marvel Comics character • Book by Julie Taymor, Glen Berger and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa • M...
June 23, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Mulligan's 'Dark' victory
"Through a Glass Darkly" By Ingmar Bergman • With Carey Mulligan • Atlantic Theater Company • New York Theatre Workshop, East Fourth St., NYC • Thr...
June 23, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Mad for trad in the mountains
At the upcoming Catskills Irish Arts Week, the premier summer school for Irish traditional music and dance in America, about 70 instructors will te...
June 22, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Rigidity, moral fervor paves road to hell
H.L. Mencken defined Puritanism as the "haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." And much as we'd like to define our America as being ...
June 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
'Born Yesterday' gets a contemporary spin today
"Born Yesterday" by Garson Kanin • Directed by Doug Hughes • Cort Theatre, NYC • Open-Ended Run In 1946, when Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday" went ...
June 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Speaking the same language
I am at my happiest when I meet another Gaeilgeoir (Irish speaker) in New York. We are in the best city in world, New York, speaking the best langu...
June 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Young girls no longer: Girsa
Two years after their self-titled debut recording, Girsa has released their second CD, “A Sweeter Place.” What’s immediately noticeable on the new ...
June 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Joyce classic to be celebrated for 2nd year Kings County
The 2nd Annual Bloomsday in Brooklyn will take place on Saturday, June 18, along the Fifth Avenue corridor. So it's not literally on the literary d...
June 09, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Shaw's slight seaside comedy swamped by overproduction
"You Never Can Tell" By G. B. Shaw • Gloria Maddox Theater, T. Schreiber Studio, 51 West 26th St., NYC • Thru June 19, 2011) There was, in late 19t...
June 09, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
New CD from old friends Tyrrell, Glackin, Browne
Clare-born P.J. Curtis, whose writing about Irish music I've admired since his essay for the stateside release of "The Bothy Band 1975" LP in 1983,...
June 08, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
A reporter goes from facts to fiction
Readers will recognize Ray O'Hanlon's name as that of the editor of this paper but he's hoping that, over time, his name will become as familiar on...
June 01, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff