The Pillowman
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 10, 2005
Closed Sep 18, 2005
Opened Apr 10, 2005
Closed Sep 18, 2005
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Martin McDonagh's Olivier Award-winning play The Pillowman, stars Billy Crudup, Jeff Goldblum, winner of the 2005 Outer Critics Circle Award for Oustanding Actor, Zeljko Ivanek and Michael Stuhlbarg. John Crowley directs. The play is about a writer in a totalitarian state who is interrogated about the horrific events in his short stories, and their similarities to a number of bizarre incidents occurring in his town.
Added Performance: Sunday - September 11 @ 3pm
No Performance: Monday - September 5 @ 8pm
Winner of the 2005 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Booth Theatre
222 W 45th St
New York, NY 10036
This charming little theater, built in the memory of Edwin Booth, opened in 1913 and contained a collection of his memorabilia. The theater's intimacy allows good sightlines from all over the house. The best seats are located on the center aisle wh [...] Read More
222 W 45th St
New York, NY 10036
This charming little theater, built in the memory of Edwin Booth, opened in 1913 and contained a collection of his memorabilia. The theater's intimacy allows good sightlines from all over the house. The best seats are located on the center aisle wh [...] Read More
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It's serendipity of the darkest yet sunniest kind that had the Improbable Theatre's haunting, hilarious stage adaptation of Heinrich Hoffman's Shockheaded Peter return to New York shortly before Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman opened. The latter play is practically a scabrous reply to the former.
The Hoffman opus, in which children (and a few errant adults) undergo tribulations as a result of their misdeeds, is quite similar to the chilling stories that Katurian Katurian Katurian (that's his full name) of The Pillowman writes. Those stories get him in trouble with the police of an unnamed, fictional totalitarian state in which he lives with a tormented brother. "We like executing writers,[...]