Gabriel Byrne Expresses His Gratitude, and for That We Can Be Thankful
The actor is back on Broadway for the first time since 2016 in a two-act play he wrote based on his memoir, ‘Walking With Ghosts,’ tracing his unlikely path to stardom from a working-class upbringing in Dublin.
Is it possible to not like Gabriel Byrne? In various stage and screen roles, not to mention interviews, the Irish actor has managed to combine a rugged handsomeness — somehow at once rakish and, like the name, angelic — with an ability to project sensitivity and humility.
Those assets — the humility, especially — prove very handy in the one-man show that brings Mr. Byrne back to Broadway for the first time since 2016, when he played Eugene O’Neill’s dissolute patriarch James Tyrone in a revival of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” In his new outing, “Walking With Ghosts,” the actor’s character is, well, himself.
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