“Humorous and heartfelt, this touching tribute to Trillin’s late wife is not just the memoir of a marriage, but an intimate look into a lost culture shared only by two.” “[Jeffrey] Bean embodies an intelligent and inoffensive humorist, a man…
★★★★ “An excellent production” “Warm, often funny, altogether charming.” “The author and his muse are winningly portraying by Jeffrey Bean and Carrie Paff.” “Bean and Paff convey the sense of people who obviously love spending time with each other, and…
Calvin Trillin discusses his play and its journey from page to stage with New Yorker editor David Remnick. Listen to the full interview on The New Yorker Radio Hour here.
Calvin Trillin talks about his play, “About Alice” with “All of It” host Allison Stewart. Listen to the full interview on WNYC’s “All of It” here.
“‘My first impression was that she looked more alive than anyone I’d ever seen,’ Calvin Trillin wrote in a 2006 New Yorker essay about his late wife, Alice. The piece grew into a memoir, ‘About Alice,’ which traced their relationship from that first meeting,…
“‘ABOUT ALICE’ at Polonsky Shakespeare Center (previews start on Jan. 8; opens on Jan. 20). Based on what the Sunday Book Review called a ‘slim but walloping book,’ this Theatre for a New Audience play by Calvin Trillin relates his long,…
Announcing the cast of About Alice This world premiere by Calvin Trillin directed by Leonard Foglia will star Jeffrey Bean and Carrie Paff as Calvin and Alice Trillin, respectively. Read the full announcement on BroadwayWorld.
“In its contemplation of humanity’s unruliest emotions and its Zen-like, profoundly interior account of one man’s reparations, The Prisoner has a spiritual quality one doesn’t often find in the contemporary theatre; this is especially true in its highly effective use of silence.…
“Peter Brook has been a gale force in theater for well over half a century.” – Artforum Click here to watch Peter Brook discuss THE PRISONER and the real life experience from over 50 years ago that inspired it and…
“Brook’s profound understanding of Dostoevsky and Beckett – both of whose work he has directed – informs The Prisoner. Though the place is never specified (it could be anywhere), the landscape of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is conjured up before our eyes. In…