Good Samaritans
Opening Night: February 8, 2017
Closing: February 25, 2017
Theater: Abrons Arts Center Henry Street Settlement
New York City Players presents a return of Richard Maxwell’s critically acclaimed Good Samaritans. In a dining hall at a rehabilitation center, pleasure battles virtue in this urban story of an intake counselor and her patient. Starring Rosemary Allen and Kevin Hurley. Written and directed with songs by Richard Maxwell.
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February 15, 2017
More than a dozen years before the hit film La La Land set an everyday urban romance to song, another pair of star-crossed lovers were making oddly similar music together on a New York stage. Their names are Rosemary and Kevin, and they have returned to the city this month in Good Samaritans (first seen in Brooklyn in 2004), written and directed by the experimental theater auteur Richard Maxwell, at the Abrons Arts Center. Portrayed by performers named Rosemary (last name: Allen) and Kevin (Hurley), Rosemary and Kevin are not, it should be noted, in exactly the same mold as the couple played by Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in La La Land. They’re older, for one thing, and not nearly as cosmetically perfect.
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