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Run Time:
Two hours and 35 minutes
Closing: June 07, 2015Two hours and 35 minutes
It's Only a Play - 2014 Broadway History , Info & More
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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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.
Terrence McNally's It’s Only a Play Is Only Okay
6 / 10
...when [McNally] writes about the theater, as he does in It's Only a Play...he knows what he's writing about. That's the great pleasure of it, and perhaps the great problem. It's the kind of show, filled with sly references and oversize personalities, that used to be called a back-stager or a love letter. But it isn't quite either. For one thing, it's more of an off-stager, set at the opening night party for a disaster-in-the-making called The Golden Egg...But having assembled a lifeboat of extreme personalities, McNally doesn't let much happen...Rather, what McNally offers, mostly in chop-chop joke format...is a comic rumination on life in the theater...If it's a love letter at all, it's a love letter to what theater has become, which is to say a horrible business filled with insane people, vindictive critics, and Tommy Tune.
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It's Only a Play History
Other Productions of It's Only a Play
| 1986 | Off-Broadway |
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| 2014 | Broadway |
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It's Only a Play - 2014 Broadway Awards and Nominations
Note: Award winners will appear on a background
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | BroadwayWorld Awards | Best Featured Actor in a Play | Rupert Grint |
| 2015 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | F. Murray Abraham |
| 2015 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play | Terrence McNally |
| 2015 | Theatre World Awards | Theatre World Award | Micah Stock |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Micah Stock |
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