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Crimes of the Heart

Closing: May 14, 2001

Crimes of the Heart - 2001 Off-Broadway History , Info & More

Second Stage Theatre
307 West 43rd Street (at 8th Avenue) New York, NY

Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play. The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who quickly outgrew Hazlehurst, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach. Their troubles, grave and yet, somehow, hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young lawyer who tries to keep Babe out of jail while helpless not to fall in love with her. In the end the play is the story of how its young characters escape the past to seize the future—but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the curtain has descended.


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Crimes of the Heart History

Other Productions of Crimes of the Heart

1980   Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
1981   Broadway Original Broadway Production
Broadway
2001   Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
2008   Off-Broadway Off-Broadway Revival
Off-Broadway

Crimes of the Heart - 2001 Off-Broadway Awards and Nominations

Note: Award winners are highlighted with a background.
Crimes of the Heart — awards and nominations
Year Ceremony Category Nominee
2002 The Lortels Outstanding Revival Second Stage Theatre

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