Fool for Love Revival
Run Time:
One hour and 15 minutes, with no intermission
One hour and 15 minutes, with no intermission
Ages: 13+
Closing: December 06, 2015Fool for Love - 2015 Broadway History , Info & More
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Broadway)
261 W. 47th St. New York, NY 10036
Holed up in a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert, two former lovers unpack the deep secrets and dark desires of their tangled relationship, passionately tearing each other apart. Beaten down by ill-fated love and a ruthless struggle for identity, can they ultimately live with, or without, each other? Led by director Daniel Aukin (Back Back Back at MTC; 4,000 Miles), Tony Award winner Nina Arianda (Venus in Fur at MTC, Born Yesterday)and Sam Rockwell (A Behanding in Spokane, The Way Way Back) bring an explosive intensity to Sam Shepard's (Buried Child, True West) landmark myth of the new Wild West.
Fool for Love - 2015 - Broadway Cast
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'Fool for Love': Theater Review
7 / 10
...while there's no denying their combustible chemistry, I couldn't get past the impression that only Rockwell seems a natural inhabitant of Shepard country...The actor's loose physicality, his slyly ingratiating quality, his off-kilter swagger and insouciant humor all add flavor to a guy who has proved a fatal attraction for May since high school. He knows she's bad for him and vice versa, but he can't keep away...As May...[Arianda] works her blonde mane and long legs to bewitching effect, proving no less physical a performer than Rockwell. But the volatile characterization seems more studied than lived-in. May clings like a vine to Eddie one minute and then breaks their passionate kiss with a knee to the groin the next, but the desperation behind her push-pull instability in this production is unpersuasive.
Review: ‘Fool for Love,’ a Kinship That Breaks Hearts and Knuckles
9 / 10
Love as a battlefield on which nobody wins has seldom been mapped as thrillingly as it is in Daniel Aukin's definitive revival of this bruising drama from 1983. That's in large part because as the inexorably coupled May and Eddie, Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell exude the sort of chemistry from which nuclear meltdowns are made. But every ingredient that's gone into this Manhattan Theater Club and Williamstown Theater Festival offering has been measured, sifted and distilled to create the most potent combination conceivable...Ms. Arianda and Mr. Rockwell, wild-card stars who here fulfill every promise of their earlier careers, provide plenty of injury-courting action as they bounce off the walls of Dane Laffrey's last-chance motel room set...But this production also makes it clear that 'Fool for Love' has a lot more going for it than its adrenaline quotient.
Fool for Love History
Other Productions of Fool for Love
| 1983 | Off-Broadway |
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| 2015 | Broadway |
Manhattan Theatre Club Broadway Revival Broadway |
Fool for Love - 2015 Broadway Awards and Nominations
Note: Award winners will appear on a background
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Nina Arianda |
| 2016 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Sam Rockwell |
| 2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or off-Broadway) | Fool for Love |
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