Simon Saltzman says that any resemblance between the title character of Gina Gionfriddo's new play and Becky Sharp, the heroine of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair is purely and pre…
I didn't believe for more than a minute here and there that the five characters, or the actors playing them, were inhabiting anything approaching real life.
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.
"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…
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…
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.
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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…
