McCaela Donovan Kicks Up Her Heels in “The Drowsy Chaperone”

By Ed Forry
May 6, 2011

BY R. J. DONOVAN
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
McCaela Donovan (no relation, by the way) has had a connection to Boston since she was a child and used to come here from upper state New York with her father to soak up local history. Today, the actress has carved out a nice spot for herself in Boston’s theater community, having appeared everywhere from New Rep and Commonwealth Shakespeare to the Brandeis Theatre Company, Reagle Music Theatre, and SpeakEasy Stage Company, among others.

Toibin Tip on Writing at BC Forum: ‘One Detail Should Get You Started’

By Ed Forry
May 6, 2011

BY PATRICK GALLAGHER
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
For award-winning Irish author Colm Toibin, writing is often about trying to distract readers from a story’s true destination, only to catch them off-guard when it is finally revealed. Toibin did just that last month at a reading before a packed Boston College auditorium, transporting his audience to the world created by his stories.

New CDs- The Magic of Music Delights 32 Girls in Kenya

By Ed Forry
May 6, 2011

‘Lullabies of Love’ CD, a Collaboration of Artists Who Care, Will Support ‘One Home Many Hopes’
BY SEAN SMITH
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
The biggest ideas often have the simplest beginnings. For Newton resident Lindsay O’Donovan, the inspiration for a major combination music project and fundraising initiative came from the act of quietly humming a tune for a sleepy little girl named Lovie who lay cradled in her arms.

A ‘Beanpot’ for Irish Dance? Please Stay Tuned

By Sean Smith
May 6, 2011
Sean Smith

BY SEAN SMITH
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
Is it too soon to call it “The Greenpot”?
Irish dance – rather than hockey – was the focus of a recent local showcase for several dozen students representing Boston area colleges. The event, titled “We Got the Beat,” took place April 2 at Harvard University, featuring Irish dance teams from Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, and Tufts University (a troupe from Massachusetts Institute for Technology also had been scheduled to participate but was unable to appear).

For James Dolan, Judging Let Him See Up Close How Life Played Out for Real

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
May 6, 2011

BY GREG O’BRIEN
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
A local superman of sorts, James W. Dolan has pursued truth, justice, and the American Way for most his adult life. But there’s a little of a Tom Cruise character in him, and, for that matter, in all of us, defined in the compelling courtroom moment in the classic movie A Few Good Men when Jack Nicholson as the crusty Col. Nathan R. Jessep turned to Cruise in the role of prosecutor Lieutenant JG Daniel Kaffee, and barked, “You can’t handle the truth!”

It was a Bitter Cup of Tea Then, and the Same is True Today

By Peter Stevens
May 6, 2011
Peter Stevens

I’m begging anyone in these parts with green bloodlines to please put down the “tea.” Every time anyone in or around Boston, or the rest of Massachusetts, imbibes the Tea Party brew, a historical fog envelops him or her. The lessons of the past evaporate, the concoction’s residue a soggy, sorry blend of simplistic bromides, cultural, racial, and ethnic epithets, and distortion of the past.

Blessed ‘Bongo’ – Man, Priest, Teacher

By Ed Forry
May 6, 2011

BY JAMES W. DOLAN
SPECIAL TO THE REPORTER
This is the season of acceptances and rejections when high school seniors experience the joy of victory or the agony of defeat when the dreaded envelopes arrive.
My oldest grandchild, a senior at BC High, applied to about 10 colleges and, unlike me, got into most of them. It looks like he will be studying engineering at Notre Dame next year.

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