Review: Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht in New Broadway Gem Summer, 1976
Friendships are, without a doubt, some of the most complicated relationships we can have, though there’s far less art made about them than familial, romantic, and sexual ones. David Auburn’s new Broadway play, Summer, 1976 at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, is filling in this gap, and may very well be one of the best pieces of art about female friendship yet.
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