Broadway can be a loud place, with belters belting and orchestras swelling and actors playing to rafters in the theater across the street, so it’s both comforting and mesmerizing to see a play as ...
UPDATE May 2, with second extension: With the Tony Award nomination (Leading Actress/Play) for Jessica Hecht announced today, the Manhattan Theatre Company production of David Auburn’s Summer, 1976 ...
"Summer, 1976," a play about a brief but deep friendship between two women brought together by their young children, stars Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht. Hecht's performance recently garnered her the ...
Diane Ladd earned her first Oscar nomination for her supporting role as the brassy waitress Flo in the 1974 film, “Alice ...
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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times: If “Summer, 1976” feels too comfortable ...
On its surface, David Auburn’s “Summer, 1976” airs the flimsiest of subjects: Two very different women of approximately the same age strike up a close friendship that endures for only a few months.
Friends come and go. Some stay throughout our lives while others, however significant for a time, fade into the haze of memory yet always linger within us. Sure to have future life on other stages, ...