The Waverly Gallery is a play by Kenneth Lonergan. It is considered a “memory play”. The show, first produced Off-Broadway in 2000, The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001.
A powerfully poignant and often hilarious play, The Waverly Gallery is about the final years of a generous, chatty, and feisty grandmother’s final battle against Alzheimer’s disease. Gladys is an old-school lefty and social activist and long time owner of a small art gallery in Greenwich Village. The play explores her fight to retain her independence and the subsequent effect of her decline on her family, especially her grandson. More than a memory play, The Waverly Gallery captures the humour and strength of a family in the face of crisis.
The play opened Off-Broadway at the Promenade Theater on March 22, 2000 and closed on May 21, 2000. Directed by Scott Ellis, the play starred Eileen Heckart as Gladys Green and Josh Hamilton as Daniel. The play originally premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, running from August 11, 1999 to August 22, 1999. Joanne Woodward filled in for an ailing Eileen Heckart in the final four performances. The play to premiere on Broadway in Sept 2018 in a production starring Elaine May, Michael Cera, and Lucas Hedges.
The Waverly Gallery
Golden Theatre on Broadway
First Preview 25, Sept 2018
Opening Night 25, Oct 2018
Closing Jan 27, 2019
After 32 Previews and 109 Performances
Cast
Elaine May
Lucas Hedges
Joan Allen
Michael Cera
Creative
Author – Kenneth Lonergan
Director – Lila Neugebauer
Producer – Scott Rudin
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| The John Golden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown-Manhattan. Designed in a Moorish style along with the adjacent Royale Theatre by architect Herbert J. Krapp for Irwin Chanin, it opened as the Theatre Masque on February 24, 1927 with the play Puppets of Passion. Seventy-six years later it housed another production known for its puppets, the award-winning Avenue Q. In 1937, impresario John Golden acquired the theatre and renamed it for himself. It also operated as a movie house in the late 1940s and ’50s before it was purchased by the Shubert Organization, who returned it to full-time theatrical use. The exterior of the theatre was used as the location of the movie version of the film A Chorus Line. It is also shown in the background during the opening scenes of All About Eve as the home of Margot Channing’s Aged In Wood. |
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| 252 W 45th St (between 8 Ave & 7 Ave) New York, NY 10036 |
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| Subway: A, C, E to 42nd St–Port Authority; N, Q, R, 42nd St S, 1, 2, 3, 7 to 42nd St–Times Square |
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| (212) 239-6200 |
| Box Office |
| Monday – Saturday 10am – 8.00pm – Sun – Noon – 7pm |
| Access Information |
| Theatre is not completely wheelchair accessible.There are no steps into theatre from the sidewalk. Please be advised that where there are steps either into or within the theatre, we are unable to provide assistance. |
| Orchestra: Seating is accessible to all parts of the orchestra without steps. Wheelchair seating is in the orchestra only. |
| Not wheelchair accessible. Restrooms located down 2 flights of steps (down 19 steps to lower level.) Wheelchair accessible restrooms located in the Schoenfeld Theatre. |
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