Irish Festival

7 events, Feb 7 Through 13   More dates

Paramount Theatre 

Dublin’s Abbey Theatre has been famous since the days of William Butler Yeats and Seán O’Casey. Galway’s Druid Theatre has only been famous since its discovery of Martin McDonagh. Both troupes are on their way here. The Druid’s up first with artistic director Garry Hynes’s production of McDonagh’s lyrical dark comedy The Cripple of Inishmaan, in which a disabled orphan gets his big chance as an extra in Robert Flaherty’s 1934 film The Man of Aran. The Abbey follows with Howie the Rookie author Mark O’Rowe’s fantastical Terminus, a set of intertwining, rap-tinged monologues in which three people are ripped from the quotidian to enter a world of “singing serial killers, avenging angels, and love-sick demons.”