Theater Review: "Typhoid Mary" " Surprisingly Apt for Our Times
This tautly-directed, well-cast production is filled with contemporary medical, political, and social resonances.
This tautly-directed, well-cast production is filled with contemporary medical, political, and social resonances.
We learn a great deal about hospice, possibly more than one might want to know in a play. While most death watch plays like Edward Albee's "All Over" and Scott McPherson's "Marvin's Room," t…
'Peace for Mary Frances' is so beautifully written that it is impossible to believe it's the playwright's first play.
A memorial service for beloved five-time Tony Award-nominated actress Jan Maxwell will be held on Monday, June 4 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
The competent cast including such distinguished veteran actors as Johanna Day, J. Smith-Cameron, and Lois Smith attempt to dig deep into their characters, but it seems impossible to bring an…
The Lila Neugebauer-directed Off-Broadway production opened May 23 at The Pershing Square Signature Center.
The New Group celebrated Opening Night of Lily Thorne's Peace for Mary Frances last night, with Heather Burns, Johanna Day, Natalie Gold, Mia Katigbak, Paul Lazar, Brian Miskell, Melle Power…
See what critics think of the world premiere of Lily Thorne's play, directed by Lila Neugebauer.
"Have you ever seen a worse family than this?", the rather sensible Rosie (Natalie Gold) asks a visiting social worker at the beginning of Act II of "Peace for Mary Frances," Lily Thorne's d…
How J. Smith-Cameron drew on personal experience for her part in Peace for Mary Frances---In the New Group's intense world-premiere drama Peace for Mary Frances, Obie winner J. Smith-Ca…
★★★ A radiant Lois Smith leads a supple cast in a not-always-fresh look at family dysfunction and mortality. The post Peace For Mary Frances: Old Clichés Lifted By Timeles…
★★★ The wonderful Lois Smith, directed by Lila Neugebauer, in Lily Thorne's well-cast death watch The post Peace for Mary Frances: Sometimes Death and Dying Go On Too Long …
Well acted, nicely staged but flawed new play from the New Group.
Lily Thorne treads familiar ground in her new play, Peace for Mary Frances. Estranged members of a family gather due to the death of a parent. Old grudges are revisited, old wounds are reope…
An exasperating evening filled with unlikable characters.
It is both significant and problematic that Lily Thorne was a documentary film producer for many years before penning Peace for Mary Frances, her debut play having its premiere in a producti…
Upstairs, the matriarch is ready to die. Downstairs, her adult children might kill each other first.
"We don't want you to suffer and die," one of her granddaughters says to Mary Frances (Lois Smith), as she lies in bed. "We just want you to die." "Yeah," agrees Mary Frances with a laugh. S…
The Lila Neugebauer-directed production opens May 23 at The Pershing Square Signature Center.
The Lily Thorne play receives its world premiere in a production from The New Group, directed by Lila Neugebauer.
Performances begin May 23 at the Massachusetts venue.
Good morning BroadwayWorld Today's top stories The Beast in the Jungle and Peace for Mary Frances both open off-Broadway today
Backstage at the Geffen was held May 19 in the Gil Cates Theater.
The four-time Grammy winner delivered an exquisite set of songs reconfigured in gentle, subtle arrangements
In the new play from writer-director Chris Henry, a rotating cast of women share real-life stories about the current “State of the United States.”