Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, is every bit as clever as Tracy Letts's epic hit August: Osage County.
Any Given Monday, a play about the complications surrounding a man seeking to fix his marital problems, was named Outstanding New Play at the 2010 Barrymore Awards ceremony Oct. 4 in Philad…
Gina Gionfriddo's satire of modern morality is given a completely engaging production by director Anne Kauffman, aided by a top-notch cast and a clever design.
Marsha Mason is back at LA Theatre Works' radio theater series at the Skirball Center for Becky Shaw, after last year's turn in ex-husband Neil Simon's California Suite.
Tonight, October 4, 2010, the following people were honored with Barrymore Awards at the 16th Annual Barrymore Awards Ceremony at the Walnut Street Theatre.
This remarkably intelligent and moving play can't easily be pigeonholed as either a wicked comedy or a devastating psychodrama. Gina Gionfriddo's concern is the process by which human relati…
Directed by Anne Kauffman at the Wilma
"Becky Shaw," which opened Thursday at off-Broadway's Second Stage, is a sharp social comedy of articulate anger laced with large helpings of angst and ambition. The perfect nourishment for …
Gina Gionfriddo is interested in how people deal with the aftermath of dramatic confrontations. She also creates characters who are neither altruistically pure nor black-heartedly manipulati…
For the majority of Becky Shaw, Gina Gionfriddo's deliciously unclassifiable new play at Second Stage, it hardly matters whether you're immersed in a hard-boiled domestic page-turner or an acid-toned satire of values and finances gone impossibly awry.
Any charge of superficiality hardly counts as criticism, when character surfaces are so artfully defined by the savvy cast of Peter DuBois' slick production for Second Stage.
Simon Saltzman says that any resemblance between the title character of Gina Gionfriddo's new play and Becky Sharp, the heroine of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair is purely and pre…
I didn't believe for more than a minute here and there that the five characters, or the actors playing them, were inhabiting anything approaching real life.
The glib, intermittently amusing play presents two types of people: the strong, who lack feelings, and the emotionally aware, who lack strength.