Playwrights Horizons News
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“It’s autumn in Connecticut, a wonderland to me,” a radiant Kelli O’Hara sings in the opening song of “Far From Heaven.” A scant few leaves drift down from the rafters as, behind her, projections of foliage flatten an October riot of yellows, golds and reds into two dimensions.
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Annie Baker’s new play, “The Flick,” unfolds at a rundown movie theater over a recent summer in central Massachusetts.
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The unseen character in Richard Greenberg’s new drama “The Assembled Parties” is a ruby necklace imbued with life-affecting powers.
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When the neurotic, possibly crazy woman began communing with the slightly edgy bear, ‘Kin’ irrevocably won me over.
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The writer is Leslye Headland. If the odd spelling doesn’t make you remember her name, “Assistance” will. It’s the funniest play about the movie business since David Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow.”
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After a Broadway season in which one play out of 25 was written by a woman (Emma Rice, adapting Noel Coward ’s “Brief Encounter”), accomplished females in theater convened on a New York stage last night for honors of their own devising, the second annual “ Lilly Awards .”
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For sheer opening-number verve, it’s hard to beat an old-fashioned battle of the bands when the bands are the Temptations and the Four Tops.
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Richard Nixon was president and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 929 points when Lynne Meadow was hired as chief of the fledgling Manhattan Theatre Club. Her annual salary: $10,400.
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It is sad when a playwright capable of such fine things as “The Zoo Story,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Three Tall Women” drops turkeys like “The Man Who Had Three Arms,” “Tiny Alice” and “The Goat or Who is Sylvia?” to name only three of his most egregious efforts. Now “ Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I” joins that pitiful list, dragging those excellent actors Elizabeth Ashley and Brian Murray with it.
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In “Milk Like Sugar,” three high school girls vow to get pregnant at the same time, with an eye to the cool stuff a baby will endow them with.
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