MAD MEN star Elisabeth Moss will officially play the title role in an upcoming Broadway revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, opening in February 2015. Pam McKinnon is on board to direct, which will also star ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK's Jason Biggs as Scoop Rosenbaum and A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER's Bryce Pinkham as Peter Patrone. Tracee Chimo co-stars.
Twenty-six years later, in director Pam MacKinnon's sensitive, impassioned new production (***1/2 out of four stars), Heidi's struggles can still seem dishearteningly familiar...The excellent company MacKinnon has assembled reminds us that Wasserstein's dialogue can be as funny as it is unsettling. Jason Biggs, of Orange Is the New Blackand American Pie fame, mines the arrogance of Scoop Rosenbaum, Heidi's aforementioned flame and foil, with delicious wit. As Heidi's more reliable confidante, the deeply compassionate but sometimes caustic Peter Patrone, rising stage star Bryce Pinkham delivers the show's breakout performance.
The play's politics seem retrograde, but maybe there's some comfort in that. In the final scene, Heidi offers some hopes for her adopted daughter, that if she ever meets a man like Scoop, 'he'll never tell her it's either/or baby. And she'll never think she's worthless unless he lets her have it all. And maybe, just maybe, things will be a little better.' And from the vantage of 2015, things do seem better. If only a little. Where's the play about that?
1988 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
1989 | Broadway |
Broadway |
2014 | St. Paul, MN (Regional) |
Guthrie Theater Production St. Paul, MN (Regional) |
2015 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2015 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Elisabeth Moss |
2015 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Bryce Pinkham |
2015 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play | Wendy Wasserstein |
2015 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Elisabeth Moss |
2015 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Bryce Pinkham |
2015 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | The Heidi Chronicles |
2015 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Elisabeth Moss |
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