Tony Walton Directs Irish Arts Center's TRANSPORT, 4/25-5/1

Tony Award winner Tony Walton will direct The Irish Arts Center's (553 West 51 Street) concert of a new musical by Thomas Keneally and Larry Kirwan titled, TRANSPORT. The show will play from April 25 - May 1, Friday - Saturday at 8 pm and Sundays a 3 pm.

Transport is a new musical in development that tells the universal story of immigration, loss and redemption, based on the real journey of an Irish woman from Cork to Australia in 1846.

Written and conceived by world-renowned novelist and Man Booker prize winner Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List), with music composed by Wexford's Larry Kirwan, founder of the iconic New York City band Black 47, TRANSPORT captures the searing emotion of the Irish diaspora to the Australian penal colony.

Over the course of a week at the Irish Arts Center, top New York theatrical talents including eight actors and three musicians, will to explore TRANSPORT'S ability to reverberate as an allegory for displacement in the times in which we live. The week will culminate in three concert performances at the Donaghy Theatre.

Admission will be $38 on general sale and $32 for members. To buy, click here or call (212)-868-4444.

Founded in 1972, the Irish Arts Center is the leading non-profit institution in New York bringing the very best of Irish arts and culture to audiences of all ages and ethnic backgrounds. Located in the heart of Manhattan's historic "Hell's Kitchen", the Irish Arts Center is one of the largest and most inclusive Irish cultural organizations in the United States. More than 35,000 people of all ages and ethnicities participated directly in Irish Arts Center programs in 2006, plus many more through print and broadcast media coverage of our theatrical and musical engagements, education programs, festivals, and special events.

 Photo Credit: Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

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