Posts Tagged ‘Conor McPherson’
GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY
Friday, May 17th, 2024
A quintessentially Irish playwright and a quintessentially American music legend recall the bleakest days of the Great Depression in the most transcendent of new musicals, Conor McPherson and Bob Dylan’s Tony-winning Girl From The North Country, now touring the U.S. with a three-week stop at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater.
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THE NIGHT ALIVE
Saturday, February 14th, 2015Superb performances, a brilliant production design, plenty of chuckles (with a few gasps thrown in for good measure), and characters as weirdly idiosyncratic as any I’ve seen onstage spark the Geffen Playhouse’s West Coast Premiere of Conor McPherson’s The Night Alive. As to whether the play itself is worthy of the unqualified superlatives that out-of-town critics have showered upon McPherson’s oh-so quirky comedy, well, I’ll leave that up to you to decide.
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