Collected Stories
Opening Night: April 28, 2010
Closing: June 13, 2010
Theater: Samuel J. Friedman
Ruth Steiner is a celebrated New York author with a dry wit and a distinguished career who shares the stage with a bright-eyed young protégé, Lisa Morrison. As their relationship evolves and the line between fact and fiction starts to blur, their fascinating story comes to an explosive conclusion.
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April 28, 2010
Bottom Line: Beautifully acted revival of Donald Margulies’ schematic but entertaining literary-themed drama.
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April 28, 2010
Anyone who takes acting seriously would walk a Broadway mile to see Linda Lavin play a distinguished but earthy author who is betrayed by the adoring protege who worms into her reclusive life. Pulitzer Prize-winning scribe Donald Margulies deftly if oh-so-laboriously lays out the groundwork for the final confrontation that allows Lavin to rip her guts out. Manhattan Theater Club a.d. Lynne Meadow, who previously directed Lavin in "The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife" and helms here, respects her star’s firepower and has hired a classy tech-team to prove it. But lordy, lordy, what a boring play it is.
READ THE REVIEWApril 28, 2010
Teacher vs. pupil. Let the conflict begin. Or in this case, the play — Donald Margulies’ "Collected Stories," in an exemplary Broadway revival which Manhattan Theatre Club opened Wednesday at its Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
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April 28, 2010
As good actors age — perhaps a more felicitous word would be mature — they learn how to do more with less.
READ THE REVIEWApril 28, 2010
In this season of revivals, one might well ask, "Do we really need another production of ‘Collected Stories’ "? After all, Donald Margulies’ two-hander, about the blurred lines between fiction and friendship, has had two similar productions in New York within recent memory: the premiere, presented Off-Broadway in 1997 with Maria Tucci and Debra Messing, and a subsequent staging just one year later, headlined by Uta Hagen and Lorca Simons. Linda Lavin and Samantha Mathis starred in a Los Angeles edition in 1999, which was later broadcast on PBS.
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April 29, 2010
You can tell where Donald Margulies’ "Collected Stories" is going as soon as its two characters meet — which is about a minute in.
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