The House of Blue Leaves Revival 2011 - Articles Page 1.8
Run Time:
2 hours and 15 minutes, with one intermission
Opened: April 25, 20112 hours and 15 minutes, with one intermission
Closing: June 25, 2011
The House of Blue Leaves - 2011 - Broadway History , Info & More
Walter Kerr Theatre (Broadway)
219 West 48th St. New York, NY
The Broadway revival of John Guare's comedic masterpiece THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES will star Ben Stiller, Edie Falco and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The production, directed by David Cromer, will open on Monday, April 25, 2011 at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street). The strictly limited 16-week engagement will begin previews on Monday, April 4, 2011.
In addition to Ben Stiller as Artie Shaughnessy, Edie Falco as Bananas Shaughnessy and Jennifer Jason Leigh as Bunny Flingus, the cast includes Alison Pill as Corrinna Stroller, Christopher Abbott as Ronnie Shaughnessy, Mary Beth Hurt as Head Nun and Halley Feiffer as Little Nun. Additional casting will be announced soon.
In THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES, Ben Stiller is Artie Shaughnessy, a zookeeper and wannabe songwriter, who is trying to cope with a schizophrenic wife (Falco), an impatient girlfriend (Leigh) and a visit from the Pope, all while sustaining his dream of hitting it big. THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES is a satirical take on celebrity, religion, and the frequent merging of the two.
The House of Blue Leaves - 2011 - Broadway Cast
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR The House of Blue Leaves
A Cramped and Muted House of Blue Leaves
7 / 10
A bunker mentality pervades director David Cromer’s muffled new production of The House of Blue Leaves, and it’s not just because scenic artist Scott Pask’s grim vision of Vietnam-era Jackson Heights looks disturbingly like a duplex in Terror Era Kabul. This latest remount of John Guare’s satiric late-sixties philippic against the twin forces of fame and power — and the squalidly “aspirational” peasantry that both sustains and is sustained by those forces — feels strangely hunkered down in itself, even as geysers of absurdity (a trio of ravenous nuns, a gift-wrapped bomb intended for the visiting Pope) erupt willy-nilly in the dingy Queens living room of aspiring songwriter/discontented zookeeper Artie Shaughnessy (Ben Stiller). Like its principal characters, House feels, for all its determination, caged in its own dreamworld.
The House of Blue Leaves Visits Unsunnyside, Queens
8 / 10
None of the central performances is quite as fully realized as you might wish—Stiller, for example, captures the “dreaming boy” aspect of Artie, but not the loathing that drives him. Yet together they somehow harmonize, ably conveying Guare’s gentle, genial take on the pathos of unremarkable, everyday lives. “The famous ones,” sighs Bunny, “they’re the real people. We’re the creatures of their dreams.” But it’s these sad dreams that Cromer spends his waking life imagining.
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Other Productions of The House of Blue Leaves
| 1971 | Off-Broadway |
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| 1986 | Off-Broadway |
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| 1986 | Broadway |
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| 2011 | Broadway |
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The House of Blue Leaves - 2011 Broadway Awards and Nominations
Note: Award winners will appear on a background
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Edie Falco |
| 2011 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | 0 |
| 2011 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Edie Falco |
| 2011 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Alison Pill |
| 2011 | Theatre World Awards | Performance | Halley Feiffer |
| 2011 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Edie Falco |
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