It's All True
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 9, 2003
Closed Mar 8, 2003
Opened Feb 9, 2003
Closed Mar 8, 2003
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Set in 1937 among New York's theatre elite, It's All True follows the effort of a young Orson Welles, legendary producer John Houseman and actor Howard Da Silva (among others) to mount composer Marc Blitzstein's controversial workers' musical The Cradle Will Rock after the government locked them out of their own theatre and the actors and musicians' unions boycotted the production. Jason Sherman's play features snippets of '30s rapid-fire dialogue, caustic wit, lines and songs from Blitzstein's musical, psychological flashbacks and rapid shifts of scene from the rehearsal theatre to the actors' apartments, Manhattan's 21 Club and Welles' home in Sneden's Landing.
There are additional performances on Wednesday, Feb 12 and March 5 at 2pm.
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It's All True is a riveting play based on the true story of theater legend Orson Welles's attempt to get a controversial, pro-union play in front of an audience despite threats from the Works Progress Administration. It's 1937 and, with many Americans unemployed and steel workers dying in violent protests, sentiment both for and against the labor movement is running high. Under pressure from conservative politicians, the WPA padlocks the theater that Welles (Geoffrey P. Burns) has been using for his productions. His team, including producer John Houseman (Robert Saoud), author-composer Marc Blitzstein (Christopher Chew), and actor Howard Da Silva (Neil A. Casey), is already riven by artis[...]