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Everett Beekin
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Opened Nov 14, 2001
Closed Jan 6, 2002
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Lincoln Center presents Everett Beekin, a new play by Richard Greenberg under the direction of Evan Yionoulis. Moving from an immigrant family struggling to assimilate in 1940s New York City to Orange County, California in the late 1990s, Everett Beekin is a wistful and humorous portrayal of a Jewish family spanning four generations.

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Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
150 W 65th St
New York, NY 10023


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

In the first act of his acclaimed Three Days of Rain, Richard Greenberg introduces three characters occupying a Manhattan loft in 1995. For the second act, he flashes back to the same loft in 1960 and introduces three characters (played by the same
actors) who are related by blood and also somewhat by sensibility to those the audience has just seen. In his new play, Everett Beekin, Greenberg reverses the jump by setting Act One in the late 1940s and then skipping in Act Two to the late '90s. Despite their differences, these two plays can be viewed as companion pieces in that they are variations on a plaintive theme. What Greenberg aims to do by peeking at different generations is to note [...]


Reviewed by David Finkle on Nov 15, 2001

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