Burn This - 2019 Broadway History , Info & More
Hudson Theatre (Broadway)
141 W. 44th St. New York, NY
Academy Award nominee Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman, Star Wars, "Girls") and Golden Globe winner Keri Russell ("The Americans," Waitress, "Felicity") star in the acclaimed drama by Pulitzer Prize winner Lanford Wilson.
When a mysterious death brings together two unlikely strangers, their explosive connection sparks a chemistry too fiery to ignore. Directed by Tony winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), and co-starring Tony nominees David Furr and Brandon Uranowitz, BURN THIS is a smoldering story of love and raw attraction by one of the most vital playwrights of the modern era.
Burn This - 2019 - Broadway Cast
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'Burn This': Theater Review
7 / 10
It's a credit then to the luminous Russell and the two fine supporting actors in director Michael Mayer's slick revival that nobody gets swallowed up in Pale's vortex of bubbling testosterone. Lanford Wilson's 1987 pas de quatre, to borrow a term from the play, remains a compelling account of love as a headlong plunge into the unknown, a risky jeté out of the ashes of sorrow and the stupor of safety into pulse-quickening passion. But in choosing to dial up the humor, Mayer has undercut the anguish that is the drama's foundation, exposing Burn This as just a circuitous journey to an inevitable romantic conclusion.
Burn This review – Adam Driver ignites patchy Broadway revival
6 / 10
As Pale and Anna, Driver and Russell seem mismatched, mostly because he's a Juilliard-trained stage animal and she's a first-rate television actress, versed in small-screen physicality and nuance. He's reaching for the fly space and she's working in closeup, a problem exacerbated by the play, which seems fascinated by Pale and includes several scenes where Anna mostly just listens and reacts. Actually a few of her scenes with Burton (a character who makes perilously little sense) are like this, too. It's only with Larry that she gets anything like equal billing, so Russell mostly disappears, though she does somehow make 80s mom jeans look impossibly chic.
Burn This History
Other Productions of Burn This
| 1987 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 1987 | Broadway |
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| 2002 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 2019 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Production Broadway |
Burn This - 2019 Broadway Awards and Nominations
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Brandon Uranowitz |
| 2019 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Adam Driver |
| 2019 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play | Burn This |
| 2019 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Brandon Uranowitz |
| 2019 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Adam Driver |
| 2019 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Burn This |
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