The BStreet Theatre Presents OUTSIDE MULLINGAR, 10/12-11/23

The B Street Theatre presents the Irish romance Outside Mullingar, written by John Patrick Shanley, acclaimed winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony award and Academy Award, October 12 -November 23, 2014.

SHOW TIMES: Tuesdays at 6:30pm; Wednesdays at 2 pm and 6:30 pm; Thursdays and Fridays at 8 pm; Saturdays at 5 pm and 9 pm; Sundays at 2 pm

PREVIEW: Saturday, October 11 at 5 pm & Sunday, October 12 at 2pm

OPENING: Sunday, October 12 at 7 pm

WHERE: B Street Theatre Mainstage, 2711 B St., Sacramento

TICKETS: $23-$35*, $5 Student Rush, $15* Preview tickets

TICKETS AND INFORMATION: (916) 443-5300, www.bstreettheatre.org

Outside Mullingar follows the romantic travail of two lonely eccentrics, Anthony and Rosemary. Anthony has spent his entire life on a cattle farm in rural Ireland, and Rosemary has spent hers next door; pinning for Anthony. With land feud simmering between their families, and Anthony's father threatening to deny him his inheritance; the two have every reason to fear the worst. Add in a long kept family secret, bristling comic dialogue and a heart as big as Ireland, and Outside Mullingar rises easily to an evening of theatrical enchantment.

John Patrick Shanley is no stranger to B Street Theatre where two of his plays have been produced. Doubt, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and his Off-Broadway hit Italian American Reconciliation.
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B Street has a long tradition of producing plays by and about the Irish, staging three by celebrated playwright and screenwriter Martin McDonough The Lonesome West (1999), Beauty Queen of Leenane (2002) and A Skull in Connemara (2007). Additionally, B Street has present two plays by Conor McPherson, Seafarer (2009) and Shining City (2011). A Couple of Blaguards (1996) by Pulitzer Prize winner Frank McCourt. The Walworth Farce (2011) by Enda Walsh. The holiday comedy Many Happy Returns (2005) by Bernard Farrell and the classic Irish drama Juno and the Paycock (2005) by Sean O'Casey, which remains the largest production in B Street history featuring 13 actors.

"I adore the wit and world view of the Irish", says B Street Producing Artistic Director Buck Busfield. "A humor such as theirs only comes from familiarity with difficulty, and that the Irish have. "Shanley, although an American, has elegantly captured the lyric grandeur of the Irish."

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