Like They Do in The Movies 2024

Run Time:
Two hours and 20 minutes, including one intermission

Opened: March 21, 2024
Closing: March 31, 2024

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Perelman Performing Arts Center

251 Fulton Street New York, NY 10007

Tony Award® winner, Emmy Award® winner, and Oscar® nominee Laurence Fishburne is both the star and the playwright of this one-man tour de force which he describes as “the stories and lies people have told me. And that I have told myself.”

Mr. Fishburne has captured imaginations throughout his extraordinary career with unforgettable performances on stage and screen, from Ike Turner in What’s Love Got to Do with It? (Academy Award® nomination for Best Actor), to Sterling Johnson in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running (Tony Award for Best Featured Actor), to his mind-bending turn as Morpheus in the blockbuster film series The Matrix.

Now he brings his legendary storytelling skills to PAC NYC for a World Premiere event helmed by Leonard Foglia, director of Mr. Fishburne’s acclaimed solo performance Thurgood on Broadway.

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Affecting autobiographical storytelling in Laurence Fishburne’s one-man show ‘Like They Do in the Movies’ at Off-Broadway’s PAC NYC

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But no spoilers here; to see “more about that,” the truths Fishburne learned from the stories and lies he was told, and his masterful embodiment of a variety of disparate roles and emotions, don’t miss his galvanizing reflections and stellar performance in Like They Do in the Movies.

‘Like They Do in the Movies’: Laurence Fishburne’s one-man show pulls back the curtain on an acting icon

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Best experienced live, Fishburne’s detailing of his private family history takes turns eliciting humor and generating sympathy for both the actor and his octogenarian mother. During his childhood, Hattie Crawford ran a charm school — his Brooklyn home decorated with several full-length wall mirrors as women took turns striking poses and strutting the catwalk of his living room. In the play, Fishburne depicts the character playing his mother as one who plies her child with “nasty pills” on occasion, and takes sexual advantage of him during the same years she pushed him toward early film roles like “Mr. Clean” in the Vietnam War epic, “Apocalypse Now.”

Like They Do in The Movies FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What productions of Like They Do in The Movies have there been?

Like They Do in The Movies has had 1 productions including Off-Broadway which opened in 2024.

What theatre is Like They Do in The Movies playing at Off-Broadway?

Like They Do in The Movies is playing at the Perelman Performing Arts Center, which is located at 251 Fulton Street New York.

What awards has Like They Do in The Movies been nominated for?

Disinguished Performance (Drama League Awards) for Laurence Fishburne.

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