Today, I am marking my calendar as a reminder to check out PBS' Theater Close-Up, a weekly show hosted by Sigourney Weaver, featuring amazing Off Broadway plays. Plays air on Thursday evenings at 10PM with the exception of the premiere which airs at 9PM. Here is the line up.
October 2nd
Mint Theater - John Van Druten’s London Wall
A 1931 workplace drama that follows four single women working as typists at a law firm and navigating the rocky road of romance...
October 9th
Abingdon Theatre - Brian Richard Mori’s Hellman v. McCarthy
The greatest literary feud in modern American history began on January 25, 1980 when literary critic Mary McCarthy appeared as a guest on "The Dick Cavett Show" and declared that "every word [playwright Lillian Hellman] writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" Hellman went ballistic and sued McCarthy for libel, sparking a law suit that spanned more than four years. HELLMAN v. McCARTHY is a roller coaster ride filled with comedy and pathos.
October 16th
Public Theater - Richard Nelson's The Hopey Changey Thing (part of the The Apple Family Plays)
The Apple Family plays is a politically anchored four-play series about a liberal American family. In The Hopey Changey Thing, 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.
October 23rd
Public Theater - Richard Nelson's Sweet and Sad (part of the The Apple Family Plays)
The Apple Family plays is a politically anchored four-play series about a liberal American family. In Sweet and Sad, a family brunch on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 stirs up discussions of loss, remembrance and a decade of change.
October 30th
Public Theater - Richard Nelson's Sorry (part of the The Apple Family Plays)
The Apple Family plays is a politically anchored four-play series about a liberal American family. In Sorry, the family sorts through personal and political feelings of loss and confusion on the morning of the day the country will choose the next President.
November 6th
Public Theater - Richard Nelson's Regular Singing (part of the The Apple Family Plays)
The Apple Family plays is a politically anchored four-play series about a liberal American family. In Regular Singing, the family gathers around the dining table to discuss, among other things, the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination.
November 13th
Flea Theater - Hamish Linklater's The Vandal
Set on a freezing night in Kingston, NY, a woman meets a boy at a bus stop. This dark comedy deals with how we live and the stories we tell ourselves when we're haunted by the people we've loved and lost.
November 20th
New York Theater Workshop - An Illiad
One-man-show adaptation of Homer's epic poem about the Trojan War, the actor on stage plays both narrator — here called the Poet — and everyone else in the sprawling war story...
November 27th
Flea Theater - Steven Bank's Looking at Christmas
Christmas Eve. New York City. A failed writer and a struggling actress meet while looking at the famous holiday windows and the windows come to life and look back at them! Including a lecherous elf with eyes for Mrs. Claus, an alien Scrooge arguing with an android Tiny Tim about reinterpreting classic Christmas stories, a pissed off Little Match Girl, Jim from The Gift of The Magi enjoying the fact that his newly shorn wife resembles a boy, a vapid Russian model trying to hook up with a snowman and a jealous Joseph The Carpenter, step-father of you-know-who … The Bats star in this sweet, smart and slightly twisted romantic comedy.
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