The Waverly Gallery

Full Length Play, Comedy / 3m, 2f

A wacky and heartrending look at the effect of senility on a family.

Cast Size
3m, 2f
Duration
More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
Accolades
Pulitzer, From Off-Broadway
Target Audience
- Adult
- Teen (Age 14 - 18)

Additional Info

Gladys, the elderly matriarch of the Green family, has run an art gallery in a small Greenwich Village hotel for many years. The management wants to replace her less-than-thriving gallery with a coffee shop. Always irascible but now increasingly erratic, Gladys is a cause of concern to her daughter, her son-in-law, and her grandson, from whose point of view this poignant memory play is told. A wacky and heartrending look at the effect of senility on a family, The Waverly Gallery was a success at New York’s Promenade Theatre, winning an Obie for legendary Eileen Heckart in the role of Gladys.

Accolades

FINALIST! 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Drama
NOMINEE! 2000 Outer Critics' Circle John Gassner Award

Reviews

REVIEWS

"Deftly presents senility as an exaggerated state of the natural human condition...Deeply theatrical and often deeply funny." - The New York Times, Read More

"...terrific ear for dialogue and wonderfully naturalistic characters...this is one playwright we need to hear a lot more from." TheatreMania, Read More

Keywords

Death, Illness/Health, Memory, Parenting/Family

Considerations

Performing Groups

Community Theatre
Professional Theatre

Cautions

Mild Adult Themes

License details

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Production

Details

Time Period: 1990s, 1980s
Duration: More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
Setting: Greenwich Village and the Upper West Side of Manhattan from 1989 to 1991.
Features / Contains: Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes

Music

Musical Style: N/A (Not a musical)
Vocal Demands: N/A (Not a musical)
Chorus Size: N/A (Not a musical)

Casting

3m, 2f

GLADYS GREEN - A former lawyer and Greenwich Village activist, runs a small art gallery, 80s
ELLEN FINE - Her daughter, a psychiatrist, 50s
DANIEL REED - Ellen's son, a speechwriter, 20s
HOWARD FINE - Ellen's husband, Daniel's step-father, a psychiatrist, 50s
DON BOWMAN - A Painter and waiter from Lynn, Massachusetts, 30s

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Cast Attributes

Ensemble cast
Parts for Senior Actors

Resources

Scripts

Acting Edition

Authors

Kenneth Lonergan

Kenneth Lonergan's productions in New York include The Starry Messenger (New Group), Lobby Hero (Playwrights Horizons, John Houseman Theatre, Drama Desk Best Play Nominee, Outer Critics Circle Best Play and John Gassner Playwriting Nominee, included in the 2000-2001 Best Plays Annual), The Waverly Gallery (Williamstown ...

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The Waverly Gallery premiered at Williamstown Theatre Festival in August 1999 under the direction of Scott Ellis.

The Waverly Gallery

The Waverly Gallery