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The Dining Room
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SHOW INFORMATION

Average of 4.5 stars from 2 ratings.

CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 20, 2007
Closed Oct 20, 2007

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http://www.keencompany.org

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

A. R. Gurney's masterpiece of 20th Century family life - formal, informal, and impossible - explodes across the stage in a series of scenes dissecting birthday parties, holidays, breakfasts, affairs, and every imaginable form of American familial relations. Spanning the century and a single day at the same time, The Dining Room is a humorous and moving evocation of family life, past and present.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Clurman Theatre
410 W 42nd St
New York, NY 10036


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Twenty five years ago A.R. Gurney became a made man in the theater with Playwrights Horizons' production of his Pulitzer-Prize nominated play The Dining Room, which ran an astounding year-and-a-half on the strength of its brittle brilliance (and glowing review in The New York Times). The award-winning Keen Company is now celebrating Gurney's masterpiece with the work's first major New York revival, and they do both the playwright and his play proud.

The Dining Room, which takes place in a kaleidoscopic series of scenes over the better part of the 20th Century in the quietly elegant dining rooms of America's WASPish upper class, is a work that not only stands the test of time, but sets the b[...]


Reviewed by Barbara and Scott Siegel on Sep 21, 2007

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