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Atlantic Theater’s Lieutenant of Inishmore Will Transfer to Broadway

David Wilmot and Kerry Condon in The Lieutenant of Insihmore
(Photo © Monique Carboni)
David Wilmot and Kerry Condon
in The Lieutenant of Insihmore
(Photo © Monique Carboni)

The Atlantic Theater Company’s Off-Broadway production of Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore will soon move to Broadway’s Lyceum Theater, scheduled to begin performances there on April 18 and to open officially on May 3.

The Broadway transfer will be produced by Randall L. Wreghitt and Dede Harris, with additional producers to be announced. The show is scheduled to continue its run at the Atlantic through April 9. Directed by Wilson Milam, The Lieutenant of Inishmore stars Jeff Binder, Kerry Condon, Andrew Connolly, Dashiell Eaves, Peter Gerety, Domnhall Gleeson, Brian d’Arcy James, and David Wilmot. Winner of the prestigious Olivier Award, the play concerns Padraic, a cat-loving Irish terrorist who wreaks havoc when he returns to his hometown to check on his beloved pet, Wee Thomas — unaware that the cat is already dead.

In his TheaterMania review of the show, David Finkle wrote: “McDonagh’s genius is that, while making us double over with laughter, he sincerely laments a divided Ireland. Indisputably, this playwright has the goods, and he flaunts them again in The Lieutenant of Inishmore.”