Spinning into Butter
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jul 27, 2000
Closed Sep 16, 2000
Opened Jul 27, 2000
Closed Sep 16, 2000
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Hope Davis stars in Rebecca Gilman's new drama, Spinning into Butter. A tiny Vermont college is thrown into turmoil when an African-American student discovers racist notes pinned to his door. The administration struggles to deal with the situation as the new dean is forced to face her own views towards racism.
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Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
150 W 65th St
New York, NY 10023
This 299-seat Off-Broadway Theater adjacent to the Beaumont is the smaller of the two spaces located in Lincoln Center. This space houses some of the most compelling theater around. The seats are comfortable. The best seats are in the center secti [...] Read More
150 W 65th St
New York, NY 10023
This 299-seat Off-Broadway Theater adjacent to the Beaumont is the smaller of the two spaces located in Lincoln Center. This space houses some of the most compelling theater around. The seats are comfortable. The best seats are in the center secti [...] Read More
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There's been a lot of talk about Hope Davis' second-act monologue in Spinning Into Butter. Even if you haven't seen Rebecca Gilman's new play at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theater, you've probably heard about this speech: an almost 20-minute segment in which a well-educated, well-meaning white woman just, well, goes off on African-Americans. How they're loud and rude and stupid. How, when she's on the train, she looks for a seat next to (1) a white woman; (2) a white man; (3) a black woman; and, as a last resort, (4) a black man.
Everyone is, appropriately, horrified: the character herself (perhaps most of all); her co-worker/ex-lover, who hears her confession (but does not give her [...]