Irish Repertory Theatre has named the five pieces in its New Works Fall Festival, November 2–23: plays by Eoin McAndrew, Karis Kelly, Hannah Khalil and the team of Iseult Golden and David Horan, and a solo show from Chris Gethard.
The festival is where the company's New Play Development Program meets an audience. That program carries new plays and musicals through table reads, staged readings, workshops and commissions, and evenings like these help decide what might earn a full production. Each title gets a single performance at 7pm, four on the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage and the last in the W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre. Tickets are $20.
Monday, November 2: Little Brother by Eoin McAndrew, directed by Nicola Murphy Dubey. At 3am in Belfast, Brigid's phone rings: her brother Niall is down by the river with lighter fluid. McAndrew's dark comedy asks how much weight love can carry when the systems meant to help give way. It won the 2024 Verity Bargate Award and premiered at Soho Theatre in London in 2025.
Monday, November 9: Consumed by Karis Kelly, directed by Keelie Sheridan. Four generations of Northern Irish women gather for a 90th birthday party no one seems to want. The play won the Women's Prize for Playwriting in 2022, and opened at the Belgrade Theatre in July 2025 before moving to the Traverse at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Tuesday, November 10: CLASS by Iseult Golden and David Horan, directed by Bailey Bass. A recently separated couple who never trusted school sit down with their nine-year-old son's teacher. The three-hander sold out at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2017, moved to the Abbey Theatre and won a Fringe First in Edinburgh in 2018.
Monday, November 16: The 33rd County by Hannah Khalil, directed by Nicola Murphy Dubey. A play with music about Irish emigrants in 1950s London, who build roads all week and live for the weekend at their Kilburn club. Khalil drew it from interviews with people who left Ireland, and traditional folk songs carry it.
Monday, November 23: POP! by Chris Gethard, directed by Kimberly Senior, a workshop performance of a one-man show. Gethard's grandfather left a village in Northern Ireland in 1928; a century on, Gethard asks whether the move was worth it. This one is already sold out, and Irish Rep is taking waitlist names by phone at 212-727-2737.
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