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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 25, 2005
Closed May 15, 2005

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http://www.secondstagetheatre.com

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FESTIVAL INFORMATION:

This show is part of the Two-Fer Two Weeks Festival.


WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Commissioned by Second Stage Theatre, Privilege is the world premiere play from Paul Weitz, the Academy Award-nominated co-screenwriter of About a Boy and co-director of American Pie. His play Roulette was a critical and popular success last season. Peter Askin directs.

Today's headlines are filled with the financial scandals of powerful individuals. But what happens to the family? In Paul Weitz's heartfelt comedy, the privileged lives of two Upper East Side teens are irrevocably changed when their father (Bob Saget) is accused of insider trading. In Privilege, the two brothers look at the world with the hilarious observations of boys on the brink of adulthood.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Second Stage Theatre
305 W 43rd St
New York, NY 10036


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

"Daddy's been arrested." With those three words, the lives of two young boys are forever changed. Privilege, Paul Weitz's intriguing but uneven new play, centers on two brothers: Charlie (Conor Donovan) and Porter (Harry Zittel), aged 12 and 16, respectively. Accustomed to an upper-class lifestyle wherein their major complaints are about such things as "boring" vacations in Antigua, the boys are caught unaware when their mother (Carolyn McCormick) informs them of their father's arrest. Ted Harris (Bob Saget of TV's Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos fame) is accused of insider trading; his assets are frozen by the government while the investigation continues, and the family must a[...]


Reviewed by Dan Bacalzo on Apr 26, 2005

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