Excellent news for theater-goers in Los Angeles and in New York City, via LA Times:
Blythe Danner will return to Broadway in the new Donald Margulies play "The Country House," which is scheduled to open Oct. 2 in a production by the Manhattan Theater Club. But before bowing in New York, Danner and the play will open at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles for a month-long run starting in June.
As previously announced, "The Country House," directed by Daniel Sullivan, is set to open at the Geffen on June 11. (The staging will be a co-production between the Geffen and MTC.)
As regular readers of The Randy Report know, I was fortunate to get to know Blythe while appearing on Broadway with her in the first revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies. The entire cast was a big family and I've stayed in contact with Blythe since. She's as charming and wonderful a person as you would hope, and her talent continues to know no bounds. (By the way - Tony Award nomination for that performance. Just saying...).
This current theater season, I saw Blythe's fantastic performance in "The Commons of Pensacola" with Sarah Jessica Parker at the Manhattan Theater Club. Great, great play (which I still think should be brought to Broadway for a longer run), and exquisite performances - especially from Blythe.
I will definitely be seeing "The Country House" in LA. Maybe I can get some Follies alum to join me at the same performance...?
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