Directed by IRT artistic director Charlotte Moore, the production will feature Tony nominee Jonathan Hogan (As Is, Burn This, Fifth of July), Geraldine Hughes (seen on Broadway in Friel's Translations) and IRT managing director Ciarán O'Reilly (last seen Off-Broadway in Irish Rep revivals of Candida and Brian Friel's Aristocrats).

The revival on the Off-Broadway company's Francis J. Greenburger mainstage will open Jan. 30, 2011.

According to Rep notes, "Ireland's master storyteller Brian Friel (Dancing at Lughnasa, Translations, Faith Healer and Philadelpha, Here I Come!) has devised a riveting contemporary drama about the terrible consequences of a medical miracle. Molly has sat in happy, capable, independent darkness since she was ten months old. When her husband makes her blindness his latest cause, he consults a once-famous star surgeon who, despite being half drowned in Irish whiskey agrees to attempt to restore Molly's sight. When the bandages come off, remarkable revelations ensue."

Molly Sweeney has set design by Jim Morgan; costume design by Linda Fisher; lighting design by Richard Pilbrow and Michael Gottlieb; and sound design by Zach Williamson.

Molly Sweeney opened at the Gate Theatre in 1994, and transferred to the Almeida Theatre in London prior to its original Off-Broadway production in 1996, which earned Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics' awards for best play. Performances of Molly Sweeney will play to March 13 at The Irish Repertory Theatre, 132 W. 22nd Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues. The schedule is Wednesday-Saturday at 8 PM; plus 3 PM matinees on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday.

Tickets are $55 and $65, and are available by calling (212) 727-2737 or online at www.irishrep.org.