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      Rodney’s Wife

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      In 1962, on location in Rome, a fading movie star and his wife are entangled in an unraveling web of secrets, lies, and sexual impropriety that threatens to tear apart…

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      Life Sentences

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      Burke, a middle-aged college English professor, and his lover, Mia, an unmarried mother in her mid-20s, seem in no way made for each another and yet, it seems, can’t live…

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      How Shakespeare Won the West

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      The play tells the story of a ragtag troupe of actors as they head West during the Gold Rush, seeking fortune and fame and performing Shakespeare for enthusiastic ‘49ers. But…

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      That Hopey Changey Thing

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      The Apples reflect on the state of their family and discuss memory, manners and politics as polls close on mid-term election night 2010 and a groundswell of conservative sentiment flips…

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      Sweet And Sad

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      An Apple family brunch stirs up discussions of loss, remembrance and a decade of change. If you see (and you need to) [Richard Nelson’s] soul-stirring new play, SWEET AND SAD…

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      Sorry

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      SORRY is the third play in the Apple Family Plays tetralogy: THAT HOPEY CHANGEY THING, SWEET AND SAD, SORRY, REGULAR SINGING The Apples sort through family anxieties and confusion on…

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      Regular Singing

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      Unfolding on the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, REGULAR SINGING is the final play in Richard Nelson’s series chronicling the lives and times of the Apple family in…

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      Between East & West

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      BETWEEN EAST AND WEST portrays a middle-aged Czech emigre couple struggling to adapt to a new country.

      The title of Richard Nelson’s unsettling new play is deliberately misleading. East-West politics…

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      Roots in Water

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      ROOTS IN WATER is a series of twelve short plays, ranging from five to fifteen minutes in length. Some have already been staged at a small theater in Woodstock, but…

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      Hungry

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      Wonderful…HUNGRY, a work in which nothing much happens beyond some contemplative pre-dinner chatter, may well be the most resonantly topical and emotionally engaging play of this election year. Ben Brantley…

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      An American Comedy

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      A mock 1930s farce in which hilarity reigns supreme.

      .. .if you can believe that a play can be part ROOM SERVICE, part Das Capital and part His Girl Friday…

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      What Did You Expect?

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      A mirror of our frightened, fallible selves at this very fraught moment in American history… WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? is the second work in the second cycle of plays by…

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      Rip Van Winkle, or The Works

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      Richard Nelson uses the familiar tale of Rip Van Winkle as the basis for his epic study of American agrarian reform, the Industrial Revolution, and the labor movement.

      .. .The…

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      The Vienna Notes

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      Stubbs, a United States senator, writes his memoirs and in so doing exposes to us the discrepancies between the actual events that took place and his recounting of them, which…

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      Illyria

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      A majestic new play.

      Christopher Kelly, Star Ledger

      ILLYRIA…works its way between your ribs.

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      ILLYRIA affords distinctive…pleasures that no one these days does better than…

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      Bal

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      Inspired by the Bertolt Brecht play BAAL, Richard Nelson’s BAL concerns a thoroughly amoral man who destroys the lives of those around him.

      The political plays of those years mark…

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      Women of a Certain Age

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      THE GABRIELS trilogy chronicles a year in the life of a neighboring family who reunite in real time at three different points across 2016 to celebrate, remember, and wait for…

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      Jitterbugging

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s LA RONDE, JITTERBUGGING: SCENES OF SEX IN A SOCIETY is set in 1947. A cycle of brief sexual encounters in a seaside New England hotel begins…

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      Farewell to the Theatre

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      I am normally wary of any new play that could be called “Chekhovian’ it implies something fragile and wispily atmospheric. But Richard Nelson’s extraordinary play about the pioneering playwright-director Harley…

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      Frank’s Home

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      Richard Nelson’s lean, smart, incisive FRANK’S HOME, is not the first play to tap into a hubristic but wearying architect in his waxing years, increasingly preferring buildings to people, battling…

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      Conversations in Tusculum

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      A riveting new work about power–and the abuse of power– in ancient Rome that has startling resonance with our age, Conversations in Tusculum reimagines the intense interaction among Brutus, Cassius…

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      The Return of Pinocchio

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York)

      Nelson’s brief play takes place in a tiny Italian village after the Allied victory in World War II. This village is the birthplace of Pinocchio, the puppet who became a…

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      Franny’s Way

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University, New York)

      Summer, 1957. The streets of Greenwich Village sizzle with the insistent rhythm of jazz. Accompanied by their grandmother, two teenage sisters from the country visit their married cousin in the…

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      Left

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University, New York)

      The Left is personified in Richard Nelson’s idealistic and intellectual characters, whose fascinating friendships are as fraught as the political history through which they’ve lived. You can’t watch [LEFT] without…

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      Chess

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University, New York),Tim Rice

      Titles are: Merano * Where I Want to Be * Quartet (A Model of Decorem and Tranquility) * The American and Florence/Nobody’s Side * Chess * Mountain Lament * Anthem…

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      Kenneth’s First Play

      Dr Richard Nelson (Columbia University New York),Colin Chambers (Kingston University London UK)

      Designed for young audiences but especially suitable for eight to fifteen-year-olds, KENNETH’S FIRST PLAY takes us on an imaginative journey into the history of Western theater. As young Kenneth (who…

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