Upper East Side|Local Event
Gingold Theatrical Group Presents a Special Reading of Bernard Shaw's John Bull's Other Island
Gingold Theatrical Group (David Staller, Artistic Director; Isaiah Josiah, Managing Producer), in partnership with the American Irish Historical Society, is proud to present a Staged Reading of George Bernard Shaw's John Bull's Other Island on Monday, August 10, 2026, at 7:00 PM at the American Irish Historical Society, 991 5th Avenue @80th Street.
The evening will feature Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba (Monte Cristo), Rufus Collins (Molly Sweeney), Robert Cuccioli (The Baker's Wife), Rodd Cyrus (Ragtime), George Dvorsky (The Connector), Jonathan Hadley (Caesar and Cleopatra), Amelia Pedlow (The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window), Jamie Sanders (Initiative), A.J. Shively (Paradise Square).
Written in 1904 at the request of W. B. Yeats for the Irish Literary Theatre (later the Abbey Theatre), John Bull's Other Island is a riotous high-action comedy! It remains Shaw's only play set in Ireland and is among his most comedic, insightful, romantic, and rarely seen works. Following the performance, audiences are invited to remain for a lively post-show discussion with artists and scholars exploring the play's historical context, its contemporary relevance, and the continuing dialogue surrounding Irish identity, diaspora, and cultural exchange.
This special event is presented as part of Gingold Theatrical Group's ongoing education and audience enrichment initiatives. For more than two decades, Gingold has used the works of George Bernard Shaw to spark conversation beyond the stage through public readings, community discussions, student engagement, and educational partnerships. Programs like these bring together artists, students, scholars, and audiences of all backgrounds to explore literature, history, social justice, and civic engagement through live performance and dialogue
Come visit one of New York’s fully intact Gilded Age Mansions! Admission is free with a suggested donation! Reservations are required!
Reservations and additional information are available at: https://gingoldgroup.org/productions/john-bulls-other-islandby-bernard-shaw/?portfolioCats=74.
ABOUT GINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP
Gingold Theatrical Group, now in its 21st year, creates theater that supports human rights, freedom of speech, and individual liberty using the work of George Bernard Shaw as our guide. Through full productions, staged readings, new play development, and educational programs, GTG brings Shaw’s humanist ideals to inspire peaceful discussion and activism. GTG’s past productions include Man and Superman (2012), You Never Can Tell(2013), Major Barbara (2014), Widowers’ Houses (2016), Heartbreak House (2018), Caesar & Cleopatra (2019), Candida (2022), Arms and the Man (2023), The Devil’s Disciple (2024), and Pygmalion (2025)
Founded in 2006 by David Staller, GTG has carved a permanent niche for the work of George Bernard Shaw within the social and cultural life of New York City, and, through the Project Shaw reading series, made history in 2009 as the first company ever to present performances of every one of Shaw's 65 plays (including full-length works, one-acts and sketches). GTG brings together performers, critics, students, academics and the general public with the opportunity to explore and perform theatrical work inspired by the humanitarian and activist values that Shaw championed. All comedies, these plays boldly exhibit the insight, wit, passion and all-encompassing socio-political focus that distinguished Shaw as one of the most inventive and incisive writers of all time.
The American Irish Historical Society (AIHS) was founded in Boston in 1897 to document, commemorate, and interrogate the story of the Irish in America. In the years since, it has become a national center of scholarship, conversation, and culture. From its home on New York’s Fifth Avenue, across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Society serves as a focal point of the contemporary transatlantic Irish experience, a place where current public issues are explored, where the story of the American Irish is studied and reviewed, and where the great renaissance in Irish culture is celebrated in lectures, concerts, performances, and art exhibits. Non-partisan and non-sectarian since its inception in 1897, it maintains the most complete private collection of Irish and Irish American literature and history in the United States. https://aihsny.org/
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