Conor McPherson Play to Make New York Premiere With Origin's 1st Irish Festival

Origin’s 1st Irish Festival, returning to New York City for its ninth year, will take place from September 6-October 3 with a number of prominent theater companies and artists from Ireland joining in the annual festivities.

This year's highlights include the American premiere of Owen McCafferty’s Quietly, directed by Jimmy Fay, and produced in association with the Public Theater. The Irish Repertory Theatre brings the play to New York to inaugurate its newly refurbished theater on West 22nd Street.

The Irish Arts Center also brings Sonya Kelly’s new play, How to Keep An Alien (September 15-October 1), produced by Dublin’s Rough Magic Theatre.

59E59 Theaters will additionally present Eoghan Quinn’s comedy Bears in Space (September 6-October 2), a critically acclaimed production by Collapsing Horse which played in London and in last year’s Edinburgh Festival. The New York and Toronto-based Birdland Theatre also brings Conor McPherson’s thriller The Birds (September 9-October 2) to 59E59 for its New York premiere.

For the full schedule of Origin’s 1st Irish Festival, click here.