Impressionism
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Mar 24, 2009
Closed May 10, 2009
1hr. 40min.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Tony Award winners Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons star in the world premiere of Michael Jacobs' Impressionism, a love story -- no matter how you look at it. Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien directs.
Set in Manhattan, Impressionism is the story of a world traveling photojournalist and a New York gallery owner who discover each other and also that there might be an art to repairing broken lives.
The cast also includes Marsha Mason, André De Shields, Michael T. Weiss, Aaron Lazar, Margarita Levieva, and Hadley Delany.
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WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
Go see it!
I saw Impressionism a few days before it opened, and loved it, as did the rest of the audience that afternoon, at least those within earshot of me. Though the play has its share of darkness and pain, they arent reveled in, but are treated with compassion and wit. The play is adult, romantic, funny, hopeful, life-affirming, and beautifully performed by a cast of talented actors. It is well worth seeing.
Reviewed by seamarsh
on Saturday, Mar 28th, 2009
loved this show.
charming, romantic,fabulous acting--SEE THIS SHOW--do NOT listen to the critics!
Reviewed by WENDELIZ
on Friday, Mar 27th, 2009
recommend, approve and/or guarantee such events, or any facts, views, advice and/or information contained therein.
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Tony Award winners Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen have repeatedly been quoted as saying that once they read Michael Jacobs' new play Impressionism, now at the Schoenfeld Theatre, they had to say "yes" about returning to Broadway after more than two decades. But having seen the show, one can only express horror at the thought of what the plays must have been like that Irons and Allen rejected over the years for their Great White Way comebacks. For Impressionism -- at least in its raw form -- hasn't a single redeeming brush stroke.
Setting aside the relatively minor concern that no art gallery would be run as Katharine Keenan (Allen) runs the gallery in which the action takes place -- she has[...]