High Noone

Justin and Ronan did not take the bait in my last post, even though I know they both read the blog, so I'll try and twist their arms a bit more when I'm in the same room with them on Monday. Lousie Kennedy, in the Boston Globe, did however contribute a little "behind the scenes" news for us.

"Justin Waldman sounds a bit incredulous, if delighted, as he contemplates the fall season at the Huntington Theatre Company. With good reason: Waldman, the Huntington's artistic associate, will be directing not one but two plays this fall, both by the award-winning Boston playwright Ronan Noone.

"It's a little Ronan Noone festival," Waldman says with a laugh. "It's kismet, I think."

Noone himself has a different word for the happy coincidence of seeing both "Brendan" and "The Atheist" on the same fall schedule: "It's my Xanax," he says - the ideal cure for any anxiety he may have felt after finishing the trilogy of Irish plays that put him on the theater map.

Mostly, though, it's the luck of timing that brings these plays together."

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