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’ Broadway Review: Adam Driver and Keri Russell Fall in Lust
6 / 10
Into all of this terribly 'you're OK, I'm OK, who cares if anyone out there's not gay' world drops Adam Driver. He not only gives a towering performance, he is a tower. If the Ponce Monolith at Tiwanaku ever came to life, it would be Driver's Pale. This guy's not just pre-Colombian, he's downright primordial, and speaks English as if it were a second language coming from a person who never got around to learning a first language. Pale's tirades show Wilson in peak form, and Driver does them full justice as he races from insult to demand to petty concern and then back to insult and demand and concern about his trousers not being properly pressed.
BURN THIS: KERI RUSSELL AND ADAM DRIVER LACK SIZZLE
6 / 10
Despite what the promos for this revival would have you believe, the actors playing Pale and Anna don't necessarily require house-on-fire chemistry. Wilson didn't write a smoldering love story. He wrote a romantic comedy-and what they need is a burning need for each other. They both have massive holes in their lives thanks to Robbie's death. They're broken. (At one point, Anna even likens Pale to a bird with a broken wing.) Think Frankie and Johnny. Actually, it's fitting that Terrence McNally wrote a program note for this production; the unlikely lovers in his Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, which also premiered off-Broadway in 1987, are cut from the same cloth as Anna and Pale. This 'love shit'-as Wilson once described the crux of Burn This-is tricky business.
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Burn This History
Other Productions of Burn This
| 1987 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 1987 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| 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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