What?!?! It’s August? How did that happen? Well, time flies when you’re moving house, it seems. And if it’s August, then Gabriel Byrne is back trodding the boards with his spectacular one-man play, Walking With Ghosts. The Wexford National Opera House played host to four sold-out performances which ran August […]
As Katharine Hepburn explains to the assembled guests, including Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart, in the 1940 film Philadelphia Story, “There’s been a slight hitch in the proceedings!” And just like the one in that film, this hitch is wonderful, too! Before taking his critically acclaimed and sold-out play off […]
Gabriel Byrne heads back to the stage! He is set to do three performances of the play based on his memoir, Walking With Ghosts, in Wexford, Ireland at the end of the summer, before heading to his London West End debut at the Apollo Theatre in September. After that? It’s […]
Got your ticket? Stocked up on popcorn? Your beverage of choice is in the fridge? Good! Tomorrow is Saturday, February 26: the day we have all been anticipating since that day in January when Gabriel Byrne first walked out on stage at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin and brought his […]
His grandmother. Neighbors. Friends. His dad. Richard Burton. Gabriel Byrne invokes them, channels them, reveals them in his once-a-book-now-a-play, Walking With Ghosts, and we get to cherish them right along with him in this brief trailer that manages to pack a wallop of humor, drama, and story-telling in just 2+ […]
A review by one of the lucky ones who experienced Gabriel Byrne’s new play in Dublin! I first met Jojanneke van den Bosch in Bray, just outside Dublin, in 2013, when we both attended the premiere of the documentary film Behind the Sword in the Stone (now called Excalibur: Behind […]