Theater Review: The Velocity of Autumn Ticks Off Every Item on the Bad Playwriting Checklist
Starring Estelle Parsons as an elderly woman who barricades herself in a brownstone.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
Starring Estelle Parsons as an elderly woman who barricades herself in a brownstone.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
he play gives the formidable Parsons ample room to switch emotional gears and sway our affections without missing a beat, even as we can also sense the stirrings of her character's impending…
In case its telegraph title didn't clue you in, The Velocity of Autumn is about aging. As 79-year-old Park Slope resident Alexandra (Parsons) repeatedly moans, the sunset years are no picnic…
As the lights went down on "The Velocity of Autumn" and the actors left the the stage, the intimate, 766-seat theater erupted, pulsing like the Q during a Cavs game when the home t…
Sometimes, all you have to do to get a laugh is have the curtain rise on Estelle Parsons in a room full of Molotov cocktails.
Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella costar in Eric Coble's comedic two-hander about love, family, and life's passing seasons.
Alexandra is 79 and angry " growing old is no picnic, plus she's afraid of being kicked out of her Park Slope brownstone. So she barricades herself in her home,...
The Velocity of Autumn by Eric Coble stars Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons Bonnie and Clyde, 'Roseanne' and two-time Tony Award winner Stephen Spinella Angels in America, Lincoln, '24'.…
"The Velocity of Autumn," starring Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella, is a wispy but amiable comedy-drama about the ravages of getting older.
There's a compelling and worthwhile story out there about an age-addled woman's battle to live out her life in her own home. "The Velocity of Autumn" isn't it.
At least for me, the concept of "The Velocity of Autumn," which opened at Broadway's Booth Theatre on Monday, was one of the most interesting concepts for a new play this year. A 79-year-old…
Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella star in Eric Coble's two-hander Broadway play about an elderly woman who threatens to blow up her Brooklyn brownstone apartment rather than be sent to a …
With the best title of any Broadway play this season, two always-impressive actors as the cast, and a theme of loss and aging that hits close to home, "The Velocity of Autumn" is the sort of…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Not many old people who fear being shipped off to a nursing home fight back with a home arsenal and bomb threats....
Following the tragic events at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, the 12.14 Foundation was created with the mission of building a landmark Performing Arts Centre in Newtown, Connecticut, …
One of Anton Chekhov's most widely cited rules about writing concerns waste: If you're going to show a rifle when the curtain goes up, you'd better have fired it by the time the curtain come…
THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN , starring Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons (Bonnie and Clyde, “Roseanne”) and two-time Tony Award winner Stephen Spinella (Angels in America, Lincoln,…
Walking the red carpet at Monday's "The Velocity of Autumn" premiere: Lucy Liu, Stephen ("Wicked") Schwartz and Tony nominee Annaleigh Ashford, most recently Stark Sands'…
Where the principals of the Broadway Play The Velocity of Autumn pursued their college studies.
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The Velocity of Autumn is a 90-minute powder keg dark comedy by Eric Coble that stars Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons Bonnie and Clyde, 'Roseanne' and two-time Tony Award winner Stephen…
Eric Coble's two-hander about a Molotov-cocktail-wielding septuagenarian also stars Stephen Spinella.