3 / 10
Margulies offers no reason to believe that either Ruth or Lisa has ever written a word worth publishing. The gifted director, Lynne Meadow, indulges Lavin, who mutters, mugs, winces and sneers along with the yelling, as Paulson recedes into the attractive clutter of Santo Loquasto’s lovely faded facsimile of a Greenwich Village floor-through.
9 / 10
Margulies' play certainly is schematic -- the audience pretty much sees where it's going right from the beginning -- but his characterizations are so incisive and his dialogue so rich that one hardly minds. The details of the New York literary scene are rendered with a rich authenticity; there's plenty of in-the-know name dropping, and the play gets one of its biggest laughs with a simple re-creation of the iconic 92nd Street Y logo.
| 1997 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 1998 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Linda Lavin |
| 1997 | The Pulitzer Prize | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Donald Margulies |
| 1997 | The Pulitzer Prize | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Donald Margulies |
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