Tip Sheet recommends: Bogboy at The Irish Arts Center

In Bogboy, playing tonight and throughout the weekend at The Irish Arts Center in Manhattan, Irish actress Sorcha Fox plays Brigit the drug addicted young Dublin woman hanging to the edge of her own life by her fingernails.

Charismatic, focused, instinctive and pitch perfect, Fox’s performance is the key to the success of Deirdre Kinahan’s tender and accomplished new play.

Book your tickets HERE

Noctu Irish Dance at The Irish Repertory Theatre: Kill for a ticket

With his new show Noctu, Irish dance director and choreographer Breandan de Galli has created arguably the most challenging Irish dance work ever seen on a New York stage.

Noctu, which means stripped or laid bare in Irish, sweeps away everything before it in a work that breaks all the rules.

In tomorrow's Irish Voice Cahir O'Doherty talks to the show’s choreographer and has one piece of advice for you: kill for a ticket.

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney to read at 92nd Street Y

In a very special evening to open the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center’s 2011-2012 season, Ireland’s Nobel Laureate (and arguably the world's finest living poet) Seamus Heaney will read from his poetry. 

It's Heaney's only public engagement in New York this year and is certain to be a sell out. 

Tickets to this event will be available for purchase through 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center’s website click here for details.

The best iPad keyboard on the market

Apple's iPads offer unmatchable portability and function - that's why they've been such a hit. You can pop one in your shoulder bag and have room in their for the rest of your life too.

But all that portability comes at a cost: no keyboard! If you write a little (or a lot) you're going to need some typing options.

To date wifi key boards have been marketed with varying degrees of success. One thing seems to untie them - the Bluetooth cursor half second lag that drives professional wordsmiths nuts.

But finally it seems some enterprising companies are offering function and form.

Still on the way to market, which means you can get in now as an investor or an early consumer, the Leviatr keyboard has it all: form, function and fun.

Expect these babies to fly off the shelves.

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8 on Broadway already hottest ticket in town

The hot ticket on Broadway this month is Dustin Lance Black's new play '8' about the bitter court battle (still ongoing) over California's Proposition 8.

The show will be performed as a fundraiser at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on Sept. 19. Casting already includes Anthony Edwards, Morgan Freeman, Cheyenne Jackson, Christine Lahti, Rob Reiner, Yeardley Smith and Marisa Tomei.

Lance Black, the screenwriter for the Harvey Milk biopic starring Sean Prenn, spent months pouring over the trial transcripts and interviews, and the one night only show will be directed by Tony Award-winning actor and director Joe Mantello.

Naturally the religious right are already girding for a public relations battle: 'Obviously, if the radical homosexual activists are encouraging people to watch this play that they and their side of the issue have put together, it's not going to be kind to those of us who hold traditional family values,' wrote Jerry Cox, president of the Arkansas Family Council. 'I just couldn't imagine that it would cast any of us on this side of the debate in any kind of positive light.'

Calling gay people who advocate for their own equality by the intentionally scary term 'homosexual activists' rather than 'family' makes clear that Jerry Cox is reluctant to cast gay people in a positive light himself.

Expect the show to be sold out already - it looks like this is a debate that has lost none of its power.

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C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Off Broadway

It comes as a surprise to many that author C.S. Lewis considered himself an Irishman, but he was in no doubt himself. 'The Irish are the only people,' he wrote to a friend, 'with all their faults I would not gladly live or die among another folk.'

Describing a meeting with a fellow Irishman in England he wrote: 'Like all Irish people who meet in England we ended by criticisms on the invincible flippancy and dullness of the Anglo-Saxon race…'

This week Lewis is portrayed in Freud's Last Session, the new play where Lewis visits the office of the world's most famous psychoanalyst. Questions over the meaning of life, the existence of God, the nature of love - and a battle of wits ensue.

For more details and tickets click here.

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