The Columnist
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CURRENTLY RUNNING!
Opened Apr 25, 2012
Closes Jul 1, 2012
Opened Apr 25, 2012
Closes Jul 1, 2012
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Running Time:
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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John Lithgow is nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for The Columnist!
Columnists are kings in midcentury America and Joseph Alsop (John Lithgow) wears the crown. Joe is beloved, feared and courted in equal measure by the Washington political world at whose center he sits. But as the '60s dawn and America undergoes dizzying change, the intense political drama Joe is embroiled in becomes deeply personal as well.
David Auburn, whose Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning Proof dazzled audiences and critics alike, returns to MTC with this fascinating new work.
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In The Columnist, now at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre under Daniel Sullivan's suave direction, David Auburn fiddles with the facts of influential Washington, D. C. newspaper scribe Joseph Alsop's life. While these imagined facts severely compromise his dramatic purposes, Auburn nonetheless supplies the always remarkable John Lithgow with the opportunity to present a penetrating character study in the title role.
Auburn cleverly starts his backward glance at Alsop, whose printed and private words swayed John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson on handling the Vietnam War, in a Moscow hotel room where he is concluding a 1954 sexual liaison with a supposed pick-up named Andrei (Brian J. Smith). [...]