What will theater look like after the pandemic? How will stage artists address the societal upheavals wreaked by Covid-19? Everyone’s asking, no one knows, but Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Nelson and New York’s Public Theater offered up a much-needed and beautifully executed bit of hope last night with the era-suiting livestreamed world premiere of What Do We Need To Talk About?
The fifth and latest installment of writer-director Nelson’s series of dramas known collectively as the Apple Family Plays, What Do We Need… debuted Wednesday on YouTube and the Public’s website, picking up seven years after the last play, Regular Singing. While the first four installments were performed, with minimalist sets, as family dinner conversations on stage at the Public, What Do We Need… was presented entirely as a Zoom chat, with the homebound cast, performing live and in character, enacting the type of socially distanced...
The fifth and latest installment of writer-director Nelson’s series of dramas known collectively as the Apple Family Plays, What Do We Need… debuted Wednesday on YouTube and the Public’s website, picking up seven years after the last play, Regular Singing. While the first four installments were performed, with minimalist sets, as family dinner conversations on stage at the Public, What Do We Need… was presented entirely as a Zoom chat, with the homebound cast, performing live and in character, enacting the type of socially distanced...
- 4/30/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The New Group will present Hamish Linklater's The Whirligig, starring Dolly Wells, Noah Bean, Norbert Leo Butz, Jon DeVries, Alex Hurt, Zosia Mamet, Jonny Orsini and Grace Van Patten. This world premiere production directed by Scott Elliott begins previews begin May 4 in advance of an Official Opening Night on Sunday, May 21. A limited Off-Broadway engagement plays through June 11 at The Pershing Square Signature Center The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre, 480 West 42nd Street.
- 4/4/2017
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
TheNew Groupwill present Hamish Linklater's The Whirligig, starring Dolly Wells,Noah Bean,Norbert Leo Butz,Jon DeVries,Alex Hurt,Zosia Mamet,Jonny OrsiniandGrace Van Patten. This world premiere production directed byScott Elliott begins previews begin May 4 in advance of an Official Opening Night on Sunday, May 21. A limited Off-Broadway engagement plays through June 11 at The Pershing Square Signature Center TheAlice GriffinJewel Box Theatre, 480 West 42nd Street.
- 4/3/2017
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
McC Theater will soon present Zachary Quinto in the New York premiere of Smokefall, by Noah Haidle and directed by Anne Kauffman, who directed The Nether for McC last season to great acclaim. Quinto will also be joined by rising star Julia Garner, currently starring opposite Lily Tomlin in the Oscar-buzzed independent film Grandma film and television star Robin Tunney and NYC theater veterans Jon DeVries and Brian Hutchison. The company just met the press and BroadwayWorld was there for the big day. Go inside rehearsal below...
- 1/9/2016
- by TV - Press Previews
- BroadwayWorld.com
McC Theater will soon present Zachary Quinto in the New York premiere of Smokefall, by Noah Haidle and directed by Anne Kauffman, who directed The Nether for McC last season to great acclaim. Quinto will also be joined by rising star Julia Garner, currently starring opposite Lily Tomlin in the Oscar-buzzed independent film Grandma film and television star Robin Tunney and NYC theater veterans Jon DeVries and Brian Hutchison. The company just met the press and you can check out a photo preview from the big day below. Check back later for full coverage...
- 1/7/2016
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
As The Public Theater announced yesterday, the Apple family will return in October with Regular Singing, Richard Nelson's fourth and final play in this captivating series. It will open on Friday, November 22, 2013 - the 50th Anniversary of JFK's assassination that shocked the world. The world premiere of the fourth and final play in this powerful and timely series will feature Maryann Plunkett Barbara, Jay O. Sanders Richard, Laila Robins Marian, Jon Devries Benjamin, Stephen Kunken Tim, and Sally Murphy Jane.
- 8/9/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
SorryRichard Nelson's "disposable" plays about the extraordinarily ordinary Apple family — four adult children and one ailing older-uncle coping with epochal shifts in their personal, family, and political lives — become less and less disposable and more and more indispensable with each passing year. Beginning with That Hopey Changey Thing in 2010 (which was set on the eve of the Tea Party midterms) and continuing with Sweet and Sad (set on Sept 11, 2011), Nelson has invited us into the Rhinebeck, N.Y. home of Barbara (Maryann Plunkett) and recent divorcee Marian (Laila Robins), who cares for their increasingly "confused" Uncle Benjamin (Jon DeVries), a famous actor fighting dementia.Sorry is set achingly early on the morning of November 6, 2012, Election Day, but politics is hardly the Apples' first priority. There are no dramatic political splits here; rightward and leftward tilts occasionally reveal themselves, but everyone's some kind of Northeastern centrist. Nobody's throwing around cheap,...
- 11/9/2012
- by Scott Brown
- Vulture
The Public Theater presents the world premiere production of Richard Nelsons new play Sorry. Sorry, play three of The Apple Family Plays, takes place over a meal during the day the country will choose the next president Election Day. The cast features Jon Devries, Maryann Plunkett, Laila Robins, Jay O. Sanders, and J. Smith-Cameron. Check out photos of the cast in action below...
- 11/6/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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