The Realistic Joneses 2014
Run Time:
1 hour and 30 minutes
Opened: April 6, 20141 hour and 30 minutes
Closing: July 06, 2014
The Realistic Joneses - 2014 - Broadway History , Info & More
Lyceum Theatre
(Covent Garden/Charing Cross) Wellington Street, just off Strand London
Will Eno's new play The Realistic Joneses comes to Broadway starring Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner; Academy Award and Tony Award-nominee Toni Collette ("Hostages," "United States of Tara," The Sixth Sense, The Wild Party), Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award-winner Michael C. Hall ("Dexter," Chicago), Tony Award-winner Tracy Letts (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; August: Osage County; "Homeland"), and Academy Award-winner and Gold Globe-nominee Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny; The Wrestler; Salome). The production is directed by Obie Award-winner Sam Gold, who was recently represented by Fun Home at the Public Theater.
This new American play comes to Broadway after a critically acclaimed run at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 2012. The Realistic Joneses is produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Jam Theatricals, Stacey Mindich, and Susan Gallin/Mary Lu Roffe.
Further details about this production will be announced at a later date.
In The Realistic Joneses, we meet Bob and Jennifer and their new neighbors John and Pony, two suburban couples who have more in common than their identical homes and their shared last names. As their relationships begin to irrevocably intertwine, the Joneses must decide between their idyllic fantasies and their imperfect realities. This contemporary comedy explores how our joys and sorrows - and how we choose to face them - can come to define our lives.
The Realistic Joneses - 2014 - Broadway Cast
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR The Realistic Joneses
‘The Realistic Joneses’ Theater Review: Michael C. Hall Confronts Eternity and Owls on Broadway
7 / 10
I recently wrote that 90 minutes in the theater is the new three-act play. And there have been some good short plays that constitute a full, satisfying evening in the theater. Will Eno's 'The Realistic Joneses,' which opened Sunday at the Lyceum Theatre and marks his overdue Broadway debut, isn't one of them, despite all the fine acting and writing talent on display. The drama feels overextended even before its four characters settle into a final, whimpering contemplation of life, mortality, the cosmos, eternity and that owl hooting in the woods nearby...It's quirky, but nothing ages faster than quirky when the playwright doesn't have a second act for his short one-act play.
Plugging Away at Living, Come What May
8 / 10
Plays as funny and moving, as wonderful and weird as 'The Realistic Joneses,' by Will Eno, do not appear often on Broadway. Or ever, really. You're as likely to see a tumbleweed lolloping across 42nd Street as you are to see something as daring as Mr. Eno's meditation on the confounding business of being alive (or not) sprouting where only repurposed movies, plays by dead people and blaring musicals tend to thrive...The disjointed push and pull of Mr. Eno's dialogue is not easy to master: He emphasizes the way in which we so often do throw words at one another, although most of us don't have the arsenal of curveballs that, say, John does. You may come out of this play hearing a new strangeness - and perhaps a lunatic beauty - in the way a casual conversation can unfold, or at least wishing that your interactions held the entrancing oddity of Mr. Eno's characters'...For all the sadness woven into its fabric, 'The Realistic Joneses' brought me a pleasurable rush virtually unmatched by anything I've seen this season.
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The Realistic Joneses FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What productions of The Realistic Joneses have there been?
The Realistic Joneses has had 1 productions including Broadway which opened in 2014.
What awards has The Realistic Joneses been nominated for?
The Realistic Joneses has been nominated for several awards including the Distinguished Performance Award (Drama League Awards) for Michael C. Hall and Tracy Letts, Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play (Drama League Awards) for The Realistic Joneses, and Outstanding New Broadway Play (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for The Realistic Joneses.
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