Anna Manahan Returns to New York in Solo Play Sisters

Anna Manahan, who won a Tony Award for her work as the brutal mother in The Beauty Queen of Leenane, will play both title roles of Declan Hassett's Sisters, which will be seen at 59E59 Theaters from September 12th through October 15th.

"Anna Manahan creates two extraordinary portraits of sisters Martha and Mary, in two acts that outline the resentments, regrets and secrets of these two women whose lives have taken very different turns," state press notes for the play, which is by the former arts editor of The Irish Examiner and numerous books. 

Before Beauty Queen in 1998, Manahan made her Broadway debut in Brian Friel's Lovers in 1968.  She has also made more than two dozen film and TV appearances, including A Man of No Importance, A Business Affair and Clash of the Titans.

The show has been seen in several previous venues in Ireland and the UK (including, currently, Dublin's Civic Theatre Tallaght), and previously had its US premiere at the Colorado Festival of World Theater.

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