The play tells the story of a ragtag troupe of actors as they head West during the Gold Rush, seeking fortune and fame and performing Shakespeare for enthusiastic '49ers. But with stiff competition, romantic entanglements, and an Indian chief who sees himself in King Lear, their ambitious cross-country adventure is complicated by the teeming challenges and glories of the new American frontier. Embracing elements of Shakespearean comedy and American vaudeville, HOW SHAKESPEARE WON THE WEST is a jubilant celebration of the human spirit. "Engaging, energetic, amusing, and clearly in love with...
The play tells the story of a ragtag troupe of actors as they head West during the Gold Rush, seeking fortune and fame and performing Shakespeare for ...
In celebrated playwright Richard Nelson's bold adaptation of Ibsen's classic, profound tragedy and surprising comedy combine to tell the story of the Ekdal family. Their peaceful lives are turned upside down when an idealistic family friend arrives. When the secrets unravel, powerful questions are revealed. From Richard Nelson's Introduction: "THE WILD DUCK is a play about family life twisted, bent, and knotted into perverse shapes. Everyone seems to have a lifetime's history with everyone else. Take just one character, Gregers Werle. There's his father with whom he has been estranged for...
In celebrated playwright Richard Nelson's bold adaptation of Ibsen's classic, profound tragedy and surprising comedy combine to tell the story of the ...
Burke, a middle-aged college English professor, and his lover, Mia, an unmarried mother in her mid-20s, seem in no way made for each another and yet, it seems, can't live without each other. "In his remarkable new two-character play, LIFE SENTENCES, Richard Nelson explores an intimate relationship between two people no dating service would ever put together and makes their connection tender, believable and as complex as most relationships usually are." -Gloria Cole, U P I "Richard Nelson has a penchant for writing about characters who can talk with considerable brilliance about almost...
Burke, a middle-aged college English professor, and his lover, Mia, an unmarried mother in her mid-20s, seem in no way made for each another and yet, ...
The Apples reflect on the state of their family and discuss memory, manners and politics as polls close on mid-term election night 2010 and a groundswell of conservative sentiment flips Congress on its head. "Brilliant." -The New Yorker "About the loss of memory, family devotion and having an individual voice." -Associated Press "A neo-Chekhovian serious comedy, with conflicting viewpoints eloquently yet understatedly represented ... It deals provocatively and entertainingly with political realities." -John Simon, Bloomberg.com "Ms Palin did, of course, coin the cutesy phrase that gives the...
The Apples reflect on the state of their family and discuss memory, manners and politics as polls close on mid-term election night 2010 and a groundsw...
An Apple family brunch stirs up discussions of loss, remembrance and a decade of change. "If you see (and you need to) Richard Nelson's] soul-stirring new play, SWEET AND SAD, the odds are that you you'll experience the kind of shivery moments that come when someone articulates ideas that have been lurking in your head, unexpressed and perhaps even unrecognized ... Without ever steeping onto a soapbox, SWEET AND SAD ultimately dares to ask questions about our responses to September 11, that we might be afraid to tackle ourselves, even among friends, such as the relative definitions of victim...
An Apple family brunch stirs up discussions of loss, remembrance and a decade of change. "If you see (and you need to) Richard Nelson's] soul-stirrin...
SORRY is the third play in the Apple Family Plays tetralogy: THAT HOPEY CHANGEY THING, SWEET AND SAD, SORRY, REGULAR SINGING The Apples sort through family anxieties and confusion on the day of electing the President. "SORRY is about as big and as small a family drama as there is in American literature these days. It deals in the quotidian and the trivial, but it keeps us aware of how every seemingly insignificant detail in one family's life is infused and informed by a much bigger picture ... A] beautiful, deeply cathartic play." -Ben Brantley, The New York Times "I've been trying to find...
SORRY is the third play in the Apple Family Plays tetralogy: THAT HOPEY CHANGEY THING, SWEET AND SAD, SORRY, REGULAR SINGING The Apples sort through f...
Unfolding on the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, REGULAR SINGING is the final play in Richard Nelson's series chronicling the lives and times of the Apple family in upstate New York. "To my knowledge, no previous works of theater have been topical in the resonant and specific ways as the Apple Family plays. REGULAR SINGING, the fourth and final installment of Richard Nelson's wonderful, sui generis Apple Family plays, this deeply intimate drama is about how we remember our living and our dead ... A rare and radiant mirror of the way we live - and fail to live - now." -Ben...
Unfolding on the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, REGULAR SINGING is the final play in Richard Nelson's series chronicling the liv...
In 1962, on location in Rome, a fading movie star and his wife are entangled in an unraveling web of secrets, lies, and sexual impropriety that threatens to tear apart their family. "Irritation has never been given its full due as a dramatic emotion. You don't see a mask of irascibility scowling between the masks of comedy and tragedy. But with the right play ... sustained prickliness can be more affecting than a confrontational scram-off as you wait anxiously for friction to turn into fire. Eugene O'Neill's LONG DAYS'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT is probably the ultimate example of this phenomenon....
In 1962, on location in Rome, a fading movie star and his wife are entangled in an unraveling web of secrets, lies, and sexual impropriety that threat...
