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"War Horse" By Nick Stafford • At the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, NYC • Open-Ended Run You probably won't ever forget the ears. If y...

By Peter McDermott I saw my first ever vulture when climbing the Volcán Maderas in Nicaragua a year ago. The first in the flesh, that is. And it wa...

Is this the Era of Acquiescence, the Decade of Docility, or the New Gilded Age? Not if Jesse Winch and Nat Hentoff have anything to say about it cu...

"Janie Condon: Raw & Unchained" Directed by Gus Kaikkonen • St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th St., NYC • Through May 3, 2011Doing stand-up comedy s...

Remember the surfeit of albums with the word "Celtic" or "Celt" in their titles? They bobbed like buoys in a slick-green sea swollen by post-"River...

I am back in New York after a short break. I was at Wisconsin University, Madison for the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) last week. I...

By Joseph Hurley "The Book of Mormon" • Book, Music and Lyrics By Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone • Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 230 W. 49th St...

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By Earle Hitchner [caption id="attachment_63775" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Jason Earle Hitchner (1987-2011) and Sandy Walker (1947-2...

By Joseph Hurley [caption id="attachment_63745" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="From left: Brian Cox, Jason Patric, Jim Gaffigan, Chris No...

By Earle Hitchner [caption id="attachment_63706" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="John Whelan"][/caption] Like other Irish music critics, I...

By Karen Butler [caption id="attachment_63667" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Nick Thurston and Leslie Murphy in a scene from "White Iris...