Gaiety Theatre Announces Limited Run of Friel's PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! 3/15

A new production of Brian Friel's highly popular masterpiece Philadelphia, Here I Come! is being produced by Noel Pearson, and will play the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin from March 10th 2010 for a limited season.

Philadelphia, Here I Come! is rightly regarded as perhaps the most significant Irish play written in living memory. It has been credited as having changed the course of Irish theatre when it was first staged in 1964, the premiere being also at the Gaiety Theatre as part of that year's Dublin Theatre Festival, and it immediately established Brian Friel as the leading Irish playwright of his generation.

The play has also always been highly popular, combining a deep well of comedy with a great emotional impact to create a hugely satisfying evening of theatre.

For this production, the internationally proven theatre and film producer Noel Pearson has assembled a team of actors many of whom have significant experience of Brian Friel's work, and have shared in the great success of previous productions of his plays, notably that of the original production of "Dancing at Lughnasa" in 1991, which was nominated for eight Tony Awards on Broadway and went on to win four.

The production will be directed by Dominic Dromgoole, currently Artistic Director of the vibrant Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, and designed by Tony award winning designer Jonathan Fensom.

For tickets, call either 01 677 1717 or  Ticketmaster at 0818 719 388. Tickets can also be purchased online at www.gaietytheatre.com.

For 138 years The Gaiety Theatre has given the people of Dublin opera, musicals, drama, revues, comedy, concerts, dance, festivals and pantomime. Amid the laughter and tears, through times of war and times of affluence, The Grand Old Lady of South King Street has remained a vital and ever changing expression of Irish culture and Irish society. Long home to the familiar faces of Maureen Potter, Niall Toibin, John B. Keane, Anna Manahan, Des Keogh and Rosaleen Linehan, whose bronze handprints, are set into the pavement in front the theatre, together with those of Luciano Pavarotti and Brian Friel, are testament to the longstanding association these great artists have had with Dublin's Gaiety Theatre.

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