My Name is Lucy Barton 2020 - Articles Page 1.8
Run Time:
90 minutes with no intermission
90 minutes with no intermission
Ages: 12+
Opened: January 15, 2020Closing: February 29, 2020
My Name is Lucy Barton - 2020 - Broadway History , Info & More
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Broadway)
261 W. 47th St. New York, NY 10036
Four-time Emmy winner, two-time Golden Globe winner, three-time Academy Award and four-time Tony nominee Laura Linney returns to Broadway in a haunting new solo play adapted by Rona Munro from the bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. A sold-out sensation originally produced by the London Theatre Company at the Bridge Theatre in London, Ms. Linney was hailed as "luminous" by the The New York Times, "genuinely phenomenal" by Time Out, and the play was called "deeply affecting and heartbreaking" by The Observer.
Linney plays Lucy Barton, a woman who wakes after an operation to find - much to her surprise - her mother at the foot of her bed. They haven't seen each other in years. During their days-long visit, Lucy tries to understand her past, works to come to terms with her family, and begins to find herself as a writer. This spellbinding story is directed by five-time Olivier Award winner Richard Eyre "with a keen-eyed compassion." - The New York Times
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Laura Linney makes memory mesmerizing in My Name is Lucy Barton: Review
9 / 10
That both of these women are portrayed by Laura Linney is the neat trick of Lucy Barton. In an enthralling performance, Linney embodies both memoirist and memory. Did Lucy's mother even show up, or was she a hospital fever dream? She certainly sounds authentic, and has a real effect on Lucy when she jostles the worst of her daughter's past to the surface. The play, a 90-minute one-act, is a monster of a monologue: Realistic in reflecting the ways that recollections can be inconsistent and tangential, but all the more difficult to memorize for being so. Linney's delivery is seamless. (The show's sound cues, intrusive here, suggest music wafting in from another patient's room; neither the actor nor the audience need them.)
MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON: MATERNAL AFFAIRS
8 / 10
Theirs isn't an I-love-you-to-the-moon-and-back relationship. Theirs is: 'Mommy do you love me?' 'When your eyes are closed.' When things get too serious-when Lucy's doctor tells her she might need surgery-mom high-tails it back to LaGuardia. But Rona Munro's play-and Strout's book-is more about what's not said: what happens when our eyes are closed, what happens when we're thousands of miles (and worlds away) from our family.
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21 - 19 of 19
MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON Announces Ticket Onsale Dates
by Stephi Wild - September 23, 2019
by Stephi Wild - September 23, 2019
Manhattan Theatre Club has announced ticketing information today for the upcoming American premiere of the London Theatre Company production of My Name is Lucy Barton starring Laura Linney, by Elizabeth Strout, adapted by Rona Munro, and directed by Richard Eyre. The New York production is produced in association with Penguin Random House Audio.
My Name is Lucy Barton FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What productions of My Name is Lucy Barton have there been?
My Name is Lucy Barton has had 2 productions including London which opened in 2018 and Broadway which opened in 2020.
What awards has My Name is Lucy Barton been nominated for?
"My Name is Lucy Barton" has been nominated for Outstanding Solo Performance at the Drama Desk Awards for Laura Linney and at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for Laura Linney.
What awards has My Name is Lucy Barton won?
My Name is Lucy Barton has won the Outstanding Solo Performance award at the Drama Desk Awards for Laura Linney and the Outstanding Solo Performance award at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for Laura Linney.
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