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Outside Mullingar
by John Patrick Shanley
Outside Mullingar is a Broadway show, which stars Love/Hate’s BrÃan F. O’Byrne and Will & Grace’s Debra Messing. It was written by John Patrick Shanley and directed by Doug Hughes. Shanley’s tenth play at MTC is a compassionate, delightful play about how it’s never too late to take a chance on love. It’s kind of an “Irish Moonstruck.†Now Mr. Shanley is back on Broadway with “Outside Mullingar,†a rom-com set in rural Ireland in which, for the first time in his playwriting life, he draws on his Irish family background.
John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley (born October 3, 1950) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright, an Oscar winning screenwriter, and a theatre and film director.
He has also written for film; his second film, Moonstruck (1987), stars Nicolas Cage and Cher, and won three Academy Awards, including one for his screenplay. In 1990, Shanley directed his script of Joe Versus the Volcano. Shanley also wrote two songs for the movie: “Marooned Without You†and “The Cowboy Song.†He wrote the screenplay for the film Congo (1995), which was based on the Michael Crichton book.
His play Doubt: A Parable ran on Broadway from March 31, 2005 to July 2, 2006 and won four 2005 Tony Awards (including Best Play), the Drama Desk Award (including Outstanding Play) and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Shanley directed the 2008 film version, which starred Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis. The film won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.Doubt: A Parable, is featured in The Fourth Wall, a book of photographs by Amy Arbus for which Shanley also wrote the foreword.
In 2012, Shanley wrote the libretto for an opera version of Doubt: A Parable, which premiered at the Minnesota Opera in January 2013, with music by Douglas J. Cuomo. Until then, his experience with opera was not extensive; he had attended a few performances and had listened to recordings. As he worked on the libretto, using many lines that come directly from the play, he describes that his enthusiasm for the form grew. Also in 2012, his play Storefront Church ran Off-Broadway in a production by the Atlantic Theater Company. The play concerns Bronx residents “whose lives become tangled in unexpected ways when a mortgage goes sourâ€.
His play, Outside Mullingar, opened on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club, on Jaunaury 3, 2014 and officially on January 23, 2014. The play is directed by Doug Hughes.
Run
Opening & Closing Dates |
Type & Version |
Theatre |
| Jan 23, 2014 – Mar 16, 2014 |
Play / Original
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Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, New York, NY |
Cast
BRÃAN F. O’BYRNE (Anthony)
Theatre includes The Coast of Utopia, Doubt, Shining City, Frozen, Lonesome West, Beauty Queen of Leenane, Bedbound. Numerous roles with the Irish Rep and Druid Theatre companies. His recent theatre has been with the inspiring work of Theater of War as well as If There Is I Havent Found It Yet. He has been awarded the Tony (five noms.), Drama Desk (five noms.), Obie, Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle awards, among others. Television includes his Emmy-nominated role in “Mildred Pierce,†“Prime Suspect,†“FlashForward†and “Brotherhood†and upcoming Irish series “Love/Hate.†Movies include Million Dollar Baby, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Brooklyn’s Finest and The International. He was trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre at Trinity College Dublin.
DEBRA MESSING (Rosemary)
is best known for her role on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning comedy series “Will & Grace,†captivating television audiences worldwide for eight seasons with her comedic talents as Grace Adler. For her role, Messing won the 2003 Emmy Award, has earned a total of seven Golden Globe nominations, seven Screen Actors Guild nominations, winning the ensemble award in 2001, five additional Emmy nominations, two American Comedy Award nominations, and one individual People’s Choice Award nomination. Messing was most recently seen for two seasons on NBC’s “Smash†(executive producer Steven Spielberg), which followed the process of putting on a Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe. Following “Will & Grace,†Messing starred in USA Network’s, “The Starter Wife,†with Joe Mantegna, Miranda Otto, and Judy Davis. The six-part miniseries, based on Gigi Levangie Grazer’s bestselling novel, picked up 10 Emmy nominations, including Messing’s for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. She also earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television. Afterwards, Messing reprised her role as Molly Kagan in “The Starter Wife†regular series on the USA Network. Debra received a nomination for a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy for her work on the series. Messing’s film credits include Overture Films’ Nothing Like the Holidays alongside John Leguizamo and Alfred Molina, as well as The Women, alongside Annette Bening, Meg Ryan, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Eva Mendes. She starred in the romantic comedy The Wedding Date, opposite Dermot Mulroney, and appeared in Along Came Polly, with Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston. Messing has dedicated herself and time to many charities including PSI/YouthAIDS for which she is a Global Ambassador. She has traveled with PSI to Zimbabwe, and Zambia where she visited their HIV/AIDS programs. She testified on Capitol Hill, and participated in the International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC. Messing graduated with her MFA in Acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She currently resides in New York with her son Roman.
PETER MALONEY (Tony)
MTC: To Be Or Not To Be. B’way: West Side Story, Judgement at Nuremberg, Poor Murderer, Hughie, Stanley, Six Degrees of Separation, Carousel, Arcadia, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Dinner at Eight, Our Town (Lincoln Center). Atlantic: John Guare’s Three Kinds of Exile, The Voysey Inheritance, Pinter’s The Room, 17 other plays, Irish Rep: It’s a Wonderful Life, Ernest in Love. Ensemble Studio: Lenin’s Embalmers, Pigeons. 50 films, including: Boiler Room, Requiem for a Dream, Washington Square, JFK, Desperately Seeking Susan and The Thing!. TV: Soderbergh’s “The Knick,†‘Uncle Red’ on “Rescue Me.†Writer: Leash and Witness (parts of his Abu Ghraib Triptych) published by Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. His memoir Who Does Little But Listen, just published in the Eugene O’Neill Review. Member: Atlantic, Irish Rep, Ensemble Studio, the Actors Studio.
DEARBHLA MOLLOY (Aoife)
has worked consistently in theatre, film, and television for 40 years, in West End productions from Arcadia at the Haymarket to In Celebration with Orlando Bloom. Alan Bleasdale’s On the Ledge and Martin McDonagh’s Cripple of Inishmaan are among many appearances at The National Theatre, and other recent plays include Juno and the Paycock at The Donmar, Doubt at The Tricycle, and Ditch at The Old Vic Tunnels. She is an Associate Artist of The Abbey Theatre, and has also appeared frequently on Broadway, where her credits include Dancing at Lughnasa (for which she received a Tony Award nomination), A Touch of the Poet, Juno and the Paycock, and The Cripple of Inishmaan at The Atlantic Theater in New York. Awards include two Drama Desk Awards, a Theatre World Special Award, a London Critics Award, two Irish Theatre Awards, and a U.S. Audie Award. Other nominations include: Irish Film and Television Award, Royal Television Society Award, and a Grammy Award. She has made many television appearances, most recently in “Waking the Dead,†“Midsomer Murders,†“Foyle’s War,†“New Tricks,†“55 Degrees North,†Stan,†“Touch of Frost,†“Sex in the City,†“G.B.H.,†“The Fragile Heart,†and two seasons of “Coronation Street.†Film credits include The Damned United, No Reservations, Tara Road, The Blackwater Lightship, Ulysses, and Run of the Country.
Creative Team
DOUG HUGHES (Director)
Previous Manhattan Theatre Club productions include An Enemy of the People, The Whipping Man, the Tony-nominated revival of The Royal Family, Mauritius, An Experiment With an Air Pump, Defiance and Doubt, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Director. Other recent Broadway productions include The Big Knife, Born Yesterday, Elling, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Oleanna, A Man for All Seasons, the Tony-nominated revival of Inherit the Wind, A Touch of the Poet and Frozen (Tony nomination, Best Director). He has also worked extensively Off-Broadway, most recently the Roundabout production of Death Takes a Holiday (11 Drama Desk nominations including Best Direction of a Musical) and at most of the nation’s leading resident theatres. In addition to the Tony, he has been awarded Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, Obie and Callaway Awards for his productions. He serves as the resident director of the Roundabout Theatre.
JOHN LEE BEATTY (Scenic Design)
has designed After Midnight, The Nance, Other Desert Cities, Venus in Fur, Good People, Time Stands Still, Chicago, Doubt, Rabbit Hole, The Color Purple, Proof, The Sisters Rosensweig, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, Crimes of the Heart, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Talley’s Folly, Burn This, many, many more. Off-Broadway: Sylvia; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; A Life in the Theatre. His long relationships with Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center Theater, Circle Repertory and City Center Encores! have led to multiple Tony, Obie, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards, and the Theater Hall of Fame. He is a graduate of Brown and the Yale School of Drama.
CATHERINE ZUBER (Costume Design)
Broadway: Golden Boy, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Born Yesterday, Edward Albee’s Seascape, Dinner at Eight, Twelfth Night (Tony nominations); The Royal Family, South Pacific, The Coast of Utopia, The Light in the Piazza, Awake and Sing! (Tony Awards). Other Broadway: The Big Knife, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ivanov, Triumph of Love, Women on the Verge, Macbeth, Doubt, The Sound of Music, The Red Shoes, among others. Off-Broadway: BAM/Old Vic’s the Bridge Project 2009, ’10, ’11. Opera: Two Boys, L’Elisir d’Amore, Tales of Hoffman, The Barber of Seville, Compte d’Ory (Metropolitan Opera). Recent: “The Sound of Music†(NBC/Universal.) Graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
MARK McCULLOUGH (Lighting Design)
Broadway: After Miss Julie, The American Plan, Jesus Christ Superstar (revival). Off-Broadway: How I Learned to Drive, The Language Archive, The Long Christmas Ride Home, This Is Our Youth, Gemini, Lobby Hero, Juvenilia, Old Money. International: Whistle Down the Wind (Aldwych Theatre, West End, London); Royal Shakespeare Company; Chichester Festival; tour of Jesus Christ Superstar; the Gate Theatre; and Rebecca (Palladium Theatre, Stuttgart, Germany). Regional: the Guthrie, the Old Globe, Shakespeare Theatre, Huntington Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, Steppenwolf, Center Stage. Opera: Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Bolshoi Opera, Washington National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Glimmerglass Opera. Upcoming: the new Frank Wildhorn musical Artus (Theatre St. Gallen, Switzerland), The Visit (Ronacher Theatre, Vienna).
FITZ PATTON (Original Music & Sound Design)
has designed/scored 260 productions across the U.S., including MTC’s Choir Boy (AUDELCO nomination) and I’ll Eat You Last with Bette Midler. He was awarded Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Awards for When the Rain Stops Falling at Lincoln Center and was nominated again for The Other Place at MCC, which completed its Broadway run at the Friedman. His symphony, The Holy Land, a 45-minute work for baritone, tenor, mezzo-soprano and orchestra, was completed this past year. Founder of Chance Magazine, a new theatre design magazine.
TOM WATSON (Hair & Wig Design)
is head of the wig and makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera. He has designed wigs for more than 60 Broadway productions. Current and recent Broadway designs include Annie, No Man’s Land/Waiting for Godot, The Snow Geese, The Big Knife, The Assembled Parties, An Enemy of the People, Picnic, A Christmas Story, Harvey, Million Dollar Quartet, Rock of Ages, Wicked, How to Succeed…, The Addams Family, Promises, Promises, South Pacific, Sondheim on Sondheim, A View from the Bridge, and Sunday in the Park with George.
STEPHEN GABIS (Dialect Coach)
For MTC: Doubt, Further From the Furthest Thing, Comic Potential, East Is East. Current/recent Broadway/Off-Broadway: The Winslow Boy; A Time to Kill; Becoming Dr. Ruth; Fetch Clay, Make Man; Macbeth; Lucky Guy; Juno and the Paycock; The Weir; The Freedom of the City; Man and Boy; Look Back in Anger; Once; The Book of Mormon (two national tours); Tribes; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. Selected Broadway/Off-Broadway: Lombardi, Memphis, Port Authority, The Emperor Jones, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Lend Me a Tenor, A View From the Bridge, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The 39 Steps, The Farnsworth Invention, Coram Boy, Stuff Happens, Jersey Boys. Film/TV: “Boardwalk Empire†(seasons 2 and 3), “Prime Suspect,†Across the Universe,“Bernard and Doris,†Salt.
WINNIE Y. LOK (Production Stage Manager)
Broadway: The Big Knife (Roundabout), An Enemy of the People (MTC), Venus in Fur (MTC, Lyceum). New York: Signature Theatre Company, the Greene Space, New York Stage and Film, 52nd Street Project, Second Stage, NYTW, the Public/NYSF, Mabou Mines, the Acting Company, Vineyard Theatre, 13P, LCT Directors Lab, Ma-Yi Theater Company. Regional: Westport Country Playhouse; Coronet Theater; Kirk Douglas Theatre; The Theatre @ Boston Court; East West Players; Taper, Too; Walt Disney Concert Hall; Mark Taper Forum. NYTW Usual Suspect. Co-producer at Facing Page Productions.
CARLOS MAISONET (Stage Manager)
Broadway: The Big Knife, An Enemy of the People, Venus in Fur. Off-Broadway: The Whipping Man (MTC), Miss Abigail’s Guide…, Altar Boyz, ROOMS – a rock romance, Naked Boys Singing!, NEWSical the Musical, Night Sky, Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club. Other credits: Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing and Hartford Stage Company. Graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Proud member of AEA. For Mom, Dad and Steve.
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