Barabbas Theatre Company has now confirmed most of the details of the US tour of their wonderful version of Lennox Robinson's The Whiteheaded Boy. The show opens at the Terrace Theatre, The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC, on September 13th, and will open at the Majestic Theatre, New York, on October 6th. The other US cities it will visit are Seattle, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Houston, Ann Arbour (Michigan) and Chicago.

The company is also working towards devising a show with the Abbey Theatre for early 2000, and this will be the first co- production with an independent company which will go up on the main Abbey stage.