Randall Arney’s job as a director is to take stories and retell them, incorporating his own actors and visions into the script. He has grown fond of Irish plays in particular, he said, because of ...

For an American playwright, John Patrick Shanley writes one heck of an Irish play. “Outside Mullingar,” in a radiant production by Philadelphia Theatre Company that opened Wednesday, has every Irish ...

John Patrick Shanley first visited his father’s birthplace in Ireland in 1993, and Outside Mullingar, which opened last year in New York, is a clear response to what he found there. We know this ...

The late, great screenwriter Jay Presson Allen (“Cabaret”) once described the premise for all those Doris Day romantic comedies. She called it the DF, as in Delayed F***. With “Outside Mullingar,” ...

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MULLINGAR is set to become Ireland’s own movie-making Tinseltown, as planning approval has been granted in principle for a huge studio project. Hammerlake Studios would generate €50million annually ...

Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann has confirmed that the Fleadh Cheoil is returning to Mullingar next year. The announcement was made following a meeting of the ard-chomhairle at Cultúrlann na hÉireann in ...

Niall Horan has a very proud family cheering him on from his home in Mullingar, Ireland. Horan and the rest of his group One Direction made record charts history this week when they were the first UK ...