The legendary Ian McKellen and Desperate Housewives star Roger Rees head an all-star cast as the latest production of Samuel Beckett’s bleak masterpiece continues its tour around Australia this month.
Waiting For Godot began its Aussie run at the Comedy Store in Melbourne on May 6, but will finish up in the Victorian capital this week [...]

The final curtain falls on the biggest ever world tour of an Irish play on April 24 when Enda Walsh’s modern masterpiece, The Walworth Farce, completes its epic seven-month global odyssey at the Sydney Theatre.
This production has toured through six countries and 22 cities, performing over 200 shows since kicking off in Galway last September. [...]

Many Irish plays that make it to Australian stages feature local actors doing (and sometimes struggling with) Irish accents.
But The Walworth Farce features three Irishmen and a London woman (playing a Londoner), so there is no possibility of Irish people in the audience being distracted by mispronounced words and wrong inflections.
Nor is there any excuse [...]

Four Irish acts will appear at this year’s Sydney Comedy Festival which gets under way on April 19.
Dublin comics Jason Byrne and David O’Doherty will be joined by Des Bishop and comedy group Dead Cat Bounce at this year’s event which runs until May 9.
For more information log on to www.sydneycomedyfest.com.au
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Navan funny man Tommy Tiernan kicks off his first major Australian tour on April 13 when he lands in Perth to play the Octagon Theatre.
It’s been a trying few weeks for the Meathman who recently lost his mother, but tour organisers have told the Irish Echo that the tour will go ahead as planned.
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Direct from a sell-out international tour, Jason Byrne returns to Australian shores for the fifth consecutive year as he hits the comedy festivals in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney early in the new year.
Best known for his crazed and hysterical performances at the last three Melbourne International Comedy Festivals, this time Byrne will spread his wings [...]

Here’s a great piece of theatre about contemporary Dublin, with a brilliant script, fine performances and a finish to put the heart crossways in you.
But there is a particular problem with this production for Irish audiences, which gets in the way of the action on stage and is symptomatic of what happens too often with [...]

By Aaron Dunne
Galway’s Druid Theatre Company will bring the curtain down on the biggest ever world tour of an Irish play when they arrive in Sydney next April.
The company are currently in the US, halfway through their massive world tour of Irish writer Enda Walsh’s play, The Walworth Farce, by the end of which they [...]

Samuel Beckett’s absurdist comedy Happy Days is set to hit the Belvoir St stage this November.
Sydney Beckett fans have been spoiled in recent years after a series of plays by the Nobel prize-winner was included in the Sydney Festival 2007.
But in this new production, Julie Forsyth takes centre stage as Winnie, one of the most [...]