The Wilma Theater
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Coming Home
In his latest play, master playwrite Athol Fugard (My Children!
Becky Shaw
A Pulitzer Prize finalist and smash hit that premiered Off-Broadway earlier this year, Becky Shaw is the latest comedy from Obie Award-winner Gina Gionfriddo (After Ashley, writer/producer of "Law & Order). When Suzanna decides to set her best friend Max up on a blind date with her husband's mysterious co-worker, Becky Shaw, she sets into motion a series of cataclysmic events forever changing all of their lives. Mixing sharp wit and humor with the taut suspense of a psychological thriller, Becky Shaw is a comedy of romantic errors that keeps audiences
Language Rooms
Ahmed is a shining example of the American Dream, successfully landing a big-time position as translator at a top secret detainment facility. But things aren't as they seem in this twisted workplace, and he soon finds himself the subject of closely monitored video cameras and absurd office mind games. From Yussef El Guindi, an exciting playwrite whose work has been praised by The New York Times as "very funny," Language Rooms is a provocative dark comedy about the cost of the War on Terror and the true meaning of "loyalty." Brilliantly
Leaving
Vaclav Havel, renowned playwiright (Temptation, Largo Desolato) and former President of the Czech Republic, returns to the theater with his first play in 20 years, and Wilma Audiences will be to see it in the U.S. Leaving is an inventive story of a recently retired Chancellor who stuggles over questions of truth and power along with his eccentric family and humorous bevy of functionaries. Allusions from Chekoh's The Cherry Orchard and Shakespeare's King Lear invade the Chancellor's consciousness in this wry political tragicomedy that recieved critical