I recently traded a sunny day in Central Park to witness David Hyde Pierce's tour de force performance in the Manhattan theater club revival Accent On Youth. The only downside -- this dazzling old gem whizzed by too fast in the dark theater. Accent On Youth's the story of successful,sophisticated playwright in his fifties who "smells sixty" and who lives to write. Suddenly his life is unsettled when his twenty-something secretary declares she loves him madly. I was still marveling at the post-modern relevance of the play written by Samson Raphaelson in 1939 when suddenly David Hyde Pierce and the cast including superb comic actor Charles Kimbrough (stiff newscaster Jim Dial on TV's Murphy Brown) were taking final bows. There was no sensation of blood draining from my brain -- that I too frequently get in dark theaters. Yes, I am...
- 5/29/2009
- by Susan Braudy
- Huffington Post
Manhattan Theatre Club is pleased to announce guests and dates for After Words, the popular discussion series at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street), which will feature friends, colleagues and scholars of the work of Samson Raphaelson. The series will kick off this Saturday, April 18 following the matinee performance of Accent On Youth with Grafton Nunes, Founding Dean of the Emerson College School of the Arts, and Daniel Sullivan, the Tony Award winning director of Accent On Youth. The discussion will be moderated by Lisa McNulty, Mtc's Artistic Associate.
- 4/17/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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