THE WAVERLY GALLERY Promenade Theatre
2162 Broadway,
at 76th Street
Oscar,
Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Eileen Heckart (Butterflies
are Free, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Up the Down Staircase, Heartbreak
Ridge ) returns to the New York Stage in this new comedy drama written by
Kenneth Lonergan (author of the Off-Broadway hit This Is Our Youth and
the film Analyze This). Ms. Heckart plays Gladys Green, an art dealer in
Manhattan's Greenwich Village who finds herself being forced to surrender her
gallery when concerns are voiced regarding her ability to run the business in
the light of her advancing age. As Gladys copes with possible onset of
Alzheimer's, she turns to support from her sometimes reliable grandson. Also
starring film and stage actor Josh Hamilton (Alive, With Honors, The
House of Yes, and the Off-Broadway comedy As Bees in Honey Drown).
Directed by Scott Ellis, whose previous productions include the recent revival
of The Rainmaker with Woody Harrelson and last season's Tony-nominated
musical revival of 1776.
Oscar,
Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Eileen Heckart (Butterflies
are Free, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Up the Down Staircase, Heartbreak
Ridge ) returns to the New York Stage in this new comedy drama written by
Kenneth Lonergan (author of the Off-Broadway hit This Is Our Youth and
the film Analyze This). Ms. Heckart plays Gladys Green, an art dealer in
Manhattan's Greenwich Village who finds herself being forced to surrender her
gallery when concerns are voiced regarding her ability to run the business in
the light of her advancing age. As Gladys copes with possible onset of
Alzheimer's, she turns to support from her sometimes reliable grandson. Also
starring film and stage actor Josh Hamilton (Alive, With Honors, The
House of Yes, and the Off-Broadway comedy As Bees in Honey Drown).
Directed by Scott Ellis, whose previous productions include the recent revival
of The Rainmaker with Woody Harrelson and last season's Tony-nominated
musical revival of 1776.
