It's Only a Play Revival 2014
Run Time:
Two hours and 35 minutes
Opened: October 9, 2014Two hours and 35 minutes
Closing: June 07, 2015
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Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (Broadway)
242 West 45th St. New York, NY
Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane lead an all-star cast featuring F. Murray Abraham, Stockard Channing, Megan Mullally and Micah Stock in the Broadway comedy about the comedy of Broadway: It's Only a Play. Written by four-time Tony winner Terrence McNally and directed by three-time Tony winner Jack O'Brien, this is a celebration of theatre at its best- and theatre people behaving their not-so-best.
It's opening night of Peter Austin's (Matthew Broderick) new play as he anxiously awaits to see if his show is a hit. With his career on the line, he shares his big First Night with his best friend, a television star (Nathan Lane), his fledgling producer (Megan Mullally), his erratic leading lady (Stockard Channing), his wunderkind director, an infamous drama critic (F. Murray Abraham) and a fresh-off-the-bus coat check attendant (Micah Stock in his Broadway debut).
It's alternately raucous, ridiculous and tender- reminding audiences why there's no business like show business. Thank God!
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'It's Only a Play,' but fiercer, funnier with Lane
9 / 10
Some artists mellow with age. And then there's Terrence McNally...Part of what gives the new edition its sting and zing is McNally's keen awareness of how stage business has come to intersect with the broader celebrity culture, and how much more pervasive and, frankly, sillier the latter has become...As always, though, it's Lane we marvel at. Working with a playwright and a director -- Jack O'Brien, at his most delightfully mischievous -- who know the range of his comedic gifts and how to fully tap them, Lane whips the audience into fits of laughter, both jaded and joyful, from the moment James enters, promptly dialing his Hollywood agent to wax snarky about his buddy's show.
The Nathan Lane Show
7 / 10
You will not likely find anything funnier onstage, just now, than Nathan Lane in the opening scene of Terrence McNally's It's Only a Play. Lane, as a humble off-Broadway actor turned top-tier sitcom star, is given a barrage of robustly funny jokes to launch at us, mostly of the lacerating variety...Mind you, laughs continue throughout the two-plus hours of this Jack O'Brien-directed opus; and good old Mr. Lane is omnipresent, always working to entertain us...Theatergoers will get their money's worth, if you can calculate worth by belly laffs, but it turns out that McNally's It's Only a Play is not all that much better than the play-within-a-play that the characters spend the night lamenting. 'It's Only Nathan Lane,' though, is a boffo bonanza.
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It's Only a Play FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What productions of It's Only a Play have there been?
It's Only a Play has had 2 productions including Off-Broadway which opened in 1986 and Broadway which opened in 2014.
What awards has It's Only a Play been nominated for?
It's Only a Play has been nominated for Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play at the Drama League Awards for Terrence McNally. Micah Stock received a Theatre World Award at the Theatre World Awards.
What awards has It's Only a Play won?
It's Only a Play has won the Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play at the Drama League Awards and the Theatre World Award for Micah Stock at the Theatre World Awards.
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