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Origin Theatre Company's 18th Annual Irish Theatre Festival Will Honor Enda Walsh

The Tony Award-winning playwright penned Once, Disco Pigs, and Lazarus.

April 06, 2026 By Meg Masseron

Enda Walsh

Origin Theatre Company's 18th annual Irish Theatre Festival will be held June 16-July 5, honoring Irish playwright Enda Walsh. The Tony Award-winning playwright penned Once, Disco Pigs, and Lazarus.

The festival will highlight Walsh's groundbreaking body of work and legacy, staging four readings of his works, as well as a concert of songs from Walsh’s plays and films and a movie marathon of Walsh-scripted films. A gala benefit honoring Walsh will also be held June 29 at the American Irish Historical Society. 

The festival’s lineup of one-night-only staged readings will include Disco Pigs June 26, Medicine June 18, The Same June 22, and Walsh’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Twits, co-produced with Poor Mouth Theatre Company, June 27.

The all-day “Enda Walsh Movie Marathon” will take place at the New York Irish Center in Queens June 20.

Origin will also produce a mainstage revival of the company's first produced play, Misterman. The Off-Broadway production will be directed by Origin's artistic director Labhaoise Magee.

Since its founding in 2002, Origin Theatre Company has introduced the work of over 300 Irish and European playwrights to New York audiences. Visit OriginTheatre.org.

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