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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 6, 2023 18:43:45 GMT
New play.........hmmmmmm....... TylerDeneuve
From Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive) comes MOTHER PLAY, a bitingly funny and unflinchingly honest new play about the hold our family has over us and the surprises we find when we unpack the past.
It’s 1962, just outside of D.C., and matriarch Phyllis is supervising her teenage children, Carl and Martha, as they move into a new apartment. Phyllis has strong ideas about what her children need to do and be to succeed, and woe be the child who finds their own path. Bolstered by gin and cigarettes, the family endures — or survives — the changing world around them. Blending flares of imaginative theatricality, surreal farce, and deep tenderness, this beautiful rollercoaster ride reveals timeless truths of love, family, and forgiveness.
Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Award winner Jessica Lange, and Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Jim Parsons will star in the world premiere, MOTHER PLAY, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel and directed by Tina Landau. Part of Second Stage’s 45th Anniversary Season, this limited engagement will begin previews Tuesday, April 2nd and will officially open on Thursday, April 25th, 2024 at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater (240 West 44th Street). |
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 7, 2024 20:45:04 GMT
The thing about Lange is that this is a NEW play - actors of her stature rarely - almost never - do a new play because it's a risk......a big risk........I think she wants to avoid Lead actress and Sarah Paulson if she wants a 2nd Emmy but we'll see ........a new article from People below: people.com/mother-play-jessica-lange-jim-parsons-new-broadway-show-exclusive-8605618A trio of acclaimed, awarded actors are leading Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel's newest play, and PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at them in action!
Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger are starring in Broadway's Mother Play — A Play in Five Evictions, which the Second Stage Theater production describes as "a bitingly funny and unflinchingly honest new play about the hold our family has over us and the surprises we find when we unpack the past."
Beginning previews Tuesday, April 2, the limited engagement play — directed by Tina Landau — will officially open on Thursday, April 25 at the Hayes Theater in New York City.
The actors get into character in a preview image PEOPLE can exclusively debut. Snapped in the back of a moving truck, Keenan-Bolger, 46, and Parsons, 50, strike a pose while standing behind a sitting, smoldering Lange, 74.
Set in 1962 just outside Washington, D.C., the play follows matriarch Phyllis (Lange) as she supervises her teenage children, Carl (Parsons) and Martha (Keenan-Bolger) amid their move into a new apartment.
"Phyllis has strong ideas about what her children need to do and be to succeed, and woe be the child who finds their own path," the official description reads. "Bolstered by gin and cigarettes, the family endures — or survives — the changing world around them. Blending flares of imaginative theatricality, surreal farce, and deep tenderness, this beautiful rollercoaster ride reveals timeless truths of love, family, and forgiveness."
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Post by urbanpatrician on Mar 7, 2024 22:16:51 GMT
Clearly Noah Baumbach is gonna adapt this on film.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 20, 2024 21:20:22 GMT
My 1 NYC play in 2024 so far anyway......last year it was Prima Facie......let's hope this as memorable......seeing it in a couple weeks.......photo call was this week and the marquee is now up  |
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 10, 2024 21:17:21 GMT
A very minor play imo - where Lange is essentially the only thing of note imo.......and Lange somewhat surprisingly totally dominates this play as character and as star......there is no way she can avoid Sarah Paulson (I guess?) in BA though Paulson may not go Lead
I think if Lange didn't have a Tony she may get it for this but a 2nd for this would seem a bit weird.......this is almost a 1 woman show with placeholders acting opposite her - and nowadays it's hard to win with a play nod.......but some people liked the play more than me......I didn't hate it but it was rather surprisingly old fashioned
I saw Lange's Tony win and it was a pleasure to see her here too.......she's top notch and the reviews will be at least respectful for her......more than that for her I think........certainly a "possible" Tony nod......but I didn't see anything else so I dunno
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