“Always…Patsy Cline” at the Walnut…Simply Marvelous!

By Sabina Clarke Country singer Patsy Cline was just 30 years old when she died in a plane crash 59 years ago on March 5th, 1963. She was on her way home from a benefit concert in Kansas City, Kansas… Continue Reading

Rendezvous in Bangkok…Who Killed Thomas Merton? — 5 Questions for Sabina Clarke and Thom Nickels

By Katharine Gilbert The Irish Edition is celebrating the collaboration of two of our outstanding writers Sabina Clarke and Thom Nickels who have recently presented the play Rendezvous in Bangkok…Who Killed Thomas Merton? At the Commodore John Barry Arts &… Continue Reading

Rendezvous in Bangkok…Who Killed Thomas Merton? — 5 Questions for Steve Gulick

By Katharine Gilbert The casting of Steve Gulick as the Franciscan Provincial in the staged reading of Rendezvous in Bangkok…Who Killed Thomas Merton? written by Sabina Clarke and Thom Nickels was brilliant. Gulick has a natural sense of historic figures… Continue Reading

Irish Poet Guided by the Ghost of Lorca — Stephen Byrne in His Own Words

Compiled and Edited by Sabina Clarke I dabbled in poetry from the age of 15 when at 19 I came across a Federico Garcia Lorca poem ‘The Weeping’ translated by Kenneth Rexroth. It was unlike anything I had ever read.… Continue Reading

TO ‘SYNGE’ ITS PRAISES: A Month of Irish Drama at the Sedgwick Theater

By Roslyn Blyn-LaDrew This was my first visit to the Sedgwick Theater in Mt. Airy and my first sample of the Quintessence Theatre Group’s work, and I can only say I wish I had experienced both sooner. Not only was… Continue Reading