Scene Partners 2023

Opened: November 12, 2023
Closing: December 17, 2023

Scene Partners - 2023 - Off-Broadway History , Info & More

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Vineyard Theatre

108 East 15th Street New York, NY 10003

Winter, 1985. 75-year-old Meryl ditches ice-cold Milwaukee for sunny Los Angeles, hell-bent on becoming a movie star. She’s got big dreams, a little money, and a whole lot of nerve. But will the world ever know her for who she really is? Starring two-time Academy Award® winner Dianne Wiest as Meryl, and directed by Tony Award® -winning director Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812), John J. Caswell, Jr.’s (Wet Brain; Vineyard’s Paula Vogel Playwriting Award) Scene Partners is a wildly theatrical, hilarious and genre-twisting gallop through the experience of a woman reborn.

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SCENE PARTNERS

4 / 10

But the usually wonderful director Rachel Chavkin (“Hadestown”) hasn’t totally found her way into this material, robbing the show of some of its humor -- and injecting TV screens a la Ivo Van Hove isn’t really the answer. (The video and projection design by David Bengali isn’t to blame and set designer Riccardo Hernandez does what he can with a play that is inherently cinematic.)

‘Scene Partners’ Review: Is She Brilliant? Demented? Both?

7 / 10

“Scene Partners,” which opened on Wednesday at the Vineyard Theater in a top-drawer production directed by Rachel Chavkin, is part of a genre you might call the absurd picaresque. Meryl is a hardheaded Candide, a sharp-eyed Don Quixote. When we meet her just after the long longed-for death of her abusive husband, she is leaving Wisconsin for California so fast she doesn’t bother burying him. “Within the year I will rise to fame and fortune as an international film star,” she says in farewell to her drug addict daughter. Sure enough, she soon acquires not just her agent and acting coach, but also a contract to write the movie of her life.

Scene Partners FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What productions of Scene Partners have there been?

Scene Partners has had 1 productions including Off-Broadway which opened in 2023.

How long has Scene Partners been running Off-Broadway?

Scene Partners opened at the Vineyard Theatre on Sunday Nov 12, 2023 and has now been running for 1 month.

What theatre is Scene Partners playing at Off-Broadway?

Scene Partners is playing at the Vineyard Theatre, which is located at 108 East 15th Street New York.

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