In the back room of a hotel cafe in Lower Manhattan, the Irish director Garry Hynes was talking about Sean O’Casey, the laborer turned playwright whose frequently funny, sometimes blood-chilling ...

In America, O’Casey’s plays are often relegated to History of Theater syllabi or to grad-school scene-study classes meant to help actors add “Irish dialect” to their lists of special skills.

O'Casey's real-life woman downstairs was kindly Katie Kenna who stood by him in tragic days and is still at 18 Abercorn Road. Gjon Mili—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Sean O'Casey, 1954.

O'Casey's focus on the individual citizens involved in a greater nationwide protest simultaneously makes the play feel equal parts small and large. Now celebrating its 90th anniversary, ...

In 1928, Sean O’Casey presented a copy of his latest play, The Silver Tassie, to the London impresario Sir Barry Jackson. Jackson wouldn’t stage it. “You’ve written a fine play, a terrible ...

Spending seven hours with playwright Sean O’Casey (1880–1964), courtesy of the prodigious Druid company, I had time to ponder many things. Like the morning’s headlines about war breaking out ...

Irish Repertory Theatre announced today special events and programming for the month of February as part of the The Sean O'Casey Season, celebrating 30 years of Irish Repertory Theatre.

A Dublin festival honoring the great playwright Seán O'Casey is "capturing working class life in its rawest form". The Seán O'Casey Festival celebrates one of the first Irish playwrights of note ...

A LEG UP: A Post reporter makes a turkey-drumstick toast at Midtown's O'Casey's Tavern. WireImage.com The owner of a Midtown pub is serving Wild Turkey with a twist — for Thanksgiving, he’s ...

Breon O'Casey was a British Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1928. How much does a Breon O'Casey cost? Breon O'Casey's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized ...

A gleaming trophy provides the title for Sean O’Casey’s “The Silver Tassie,” running now in a striking presentation by the Druid Theatre Company from Ireland. Like the lives… ...