Irish Day at the Theater
Oct 23, 2022 at 1 p.m.
Fred's Columbia Room and Nancy's Bar at the Toni Rembe Theater
Irish Day at the Theater
Oct 23, 2022 at 1 p.m.
Join us for Irish Day at the Theater, in partnership with Irish Culture Bay Area and the Consulate of Ireland, San Francisco.
Pre-show
Join us in Fred's Columbia Room and Nancy's Bar on the lower level for Irish music by Kyle Alden (guitar and vocal) and Rebecca Richman (fiddle and concertina), complimentary Guinness on tap, and some Irish-themed nibbles courtesy of Kerrygold and Johnny Foley's. Doors will open at 1 p.m. for the festivities.
Post-show
Stay in your seat after the show as the new Irish Consul Micheál Smith introduces a special talkback with Bill Irwin, moderated by Beckett scholar Joshua Gang, Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley (author of Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind.) Read an excerpt from that book here.
Pre- and post-show events are open to all ticket holders!
Talkback
Bill Irwin
Biography
Bill Irwin is a Tony Award–winning actor, director, writer, and clown. Original works include The Regard of Flight; Largely New York (four Tony nominations); Fool Moon; Old Hats; The Happiness Lecture; and others. He has played in many Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional stage productions, including On Beckett, an evening of passages from Samuel Beckett’s work at Irish Repertory Theatre, The Iceman Cometh; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play); The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; Waiting For Godot (2009 for a Drama Desk Award nomination); Endgame; The Tempest; Texts for Nothing; Garden of Earthly Delights; Accidental Death of An Anarchist; Showboat – and the Tony Award winning Fool Moon, which he created with David Shiner. TV: Mr. Noodle of Elmo's World; Carey Loudermilk of Legion; The Regard of Flight (PBS) with Doug Skinner, Michael O’Connor, and Nancy Harrington. Film: Rachel Getting Married, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Eight Men Out, Interstellar, Stepping Out, Unsilent, and more. Irwin was an original member of Kraken, a theatre company directed by Herbert Blau, and was also an original member of the Pickle Family Circus of San Francisco with Larry Pisoni and Geoff Hoyle. Irwin is the grateful recipient of MacArthur, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.
