Mr. Shaw Goes to Hollywood

In 1933, the celebrated dramatist George Bernard Shaw included Hollywood on the itinerary of a round-the-world tour he took with his wife. There they met and lunched with none other than Louis B. Mayer, William Randolph Hearst, Marion Davies, Clark Gable, John Barrymore, and Charlie Chaplin. Mark Saltzman’s new play, Mr. Shaw Goes to Hollywood, speculates on what happened when the crusty Irish-born playwright and social reformer is thrown together with the best that Hollywood had to offer–the beautiful, crass, charming, greedy and gregarious people around the lunch table at MGM studios. Daniel Henning directs.