opening night
Opening Night: January 1, 1970
Closing: January 1, 2009
Theater: BAM Harvey Theater
Opening Night tells the story of a famous actress, Myrtle, starring in a play in which her character must come to terms with aging. After an avid fan/autograph-seeker is killed, the actress begins a downward personal spiral, confronting her own issues of mortality. Despite insincere support from her colleagues in the production, the actress works her way back from her crisis of the soul.
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December 4, 2008
The walls come tumbling down in “Opening Night,” Ivo van Hove’s wild and woolly stage version of the 1977 John Cassavetes movie about a Broadway-bound play in crisis. It’s not just the fabled, much-chipped-away fourth wall — the invisible barrier between actors and audience — that collapses at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where this exhilaratingly acted, Dutch-speaking production from Toneelgroep Amsterdam and NTGent runs through Saturday as part of the Next Wave Festival.
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