217 results for ""Becky Shaw""
Marsha Mason is back at LA Theatre Works' radio theater series at the Skirball Center for Becky Shaw, after last year's turn in ex-husband Neil Simon's California Suite.
Gina Gionfriddo's play comes to the Almeida
"Mad Men" actress Miss Yager and "Drop Dead Diva" cast member Josh Stamberg will also be part of the L.A. Theatre Works production of Becky Shaw, featuring Academy Award winner Marsha Mason.
'Becky Shaw' puts a guy in a mighty tricky situation. South Coast Rep sparks the laughs. 'Becky Shaw' puts a guy in a mighty tricky situation. South Coast Rep sparks the laughs.
Wed, May 29 through Sun, June 23 @ Round House Theatre Bethesda, presented by Round House Theatre Bethesda -- When Suzanna sets up her friend Max on a blind date with her husband's co-worker…
Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason will join Matt Letscher and Emily Bergl in Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw for L.A. Theatre Works.
Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw is both victim and destroyer, ruinous and ruined, a woman trying to hide her damage behind a frozen, first-date smile.
Throughout the play Becky Shaw, characters travel between Boston, Providence, New York, and Richmond. That seems plausible, but to look around at the audience in Round House Theatre one nigh…
Director Patricia McGregor ably navigates the territory among people who sincerely believe they're doing what is best for the people around them.
It's been a while since we've seen a bonafide femme fatale onstage"the hard-boiled yet pliable dames who dupe guys and dolls alike without messing up their manicures. That's why Gina Gionfri…
Some people enter our lives and make ripples. Others make waves. But every so often someone comes crashing into our worlds like a monsoon " someone like Becky Shaw. In the Pulitzer Prize nom…
Does this sound too cynical? "Love is the happy by-product of use," says one of the characters in Gina Gionfriddo's dark, delightfully tart "Becky Shaw." The play " a 2009 Pulitzer Prize fin…
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. The harsh dose of reality … Sometimes it takes the truth of a stranger to show us who really are. For many, it is easier to perpetuate a false truth or…
"Becky Shaw" is the kind of play that reminds us why we go to theater in the first place: to see people who are just like us, only much more interesting. They've got our issues — relat…
Close on the heels of the Wilma's terrific 2010 production of "Becky Shaw" comes the Montgomery Theater's, which is equally fine but for very different reasons, says critic Wendy Rosenfield.
BECKY SHAW WON'T LET YOU FORGET HER " THAT'S A PROMISE AND A THREAT I'm pleased to report that Becky Shaw is not easy to sit through. Five well-chiseled characters (that you pray you will ne…
The humor is in direct proportion to the discomfort in Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, now in its West Coast premiere at SF Playouse.
If David Mamet were good at anything other than provocat…
A carefully plotted acid bath of a story, A Red Orchid Theatre's 'Becky Shaw' traces the damage of a blind date so torrentially godawful that it ruins the marriage of the couple who set it u…
Think of "Becky Shaw," Gina Gionfriddo's tragical-comical, psycho-sexual social satire, as something of a Dysfunctional Family Olympics, with a couple of crucial outsiders adding to the comp…
Veterans of the mating wars will recognize the scene, from one agonizing side or another. There has been a single date — an awkward date that began with the tactless suggestion that th…
A blind date goes bad, catastrophically bad, in Gina Gionfriddo's play "Becky Shaw." It's a concept many can identify with, but the playwright takes it one step further, moving into psycholo…
A blind date goes bad, catastrophically bad, in Gina Gionfriddo's play "Becky Shaw." It's a concept many can identify with, but the playwright takes it one step further, moving into psycholo…
