Michael Jacobs' new Broadway play opened up March 24th at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, after previews began February 28th. The play, about an art gallery owner and a photojournalist, stars Tony Award winners Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons, who discuss their personal and commercial lives at their workplace. In a cleverly seductive story line that follows the two characters both in the present day and the past, allowing art expert Katharine and recalcitrant National Geographic photographer Thomas to step away from their momentarily wisdom and reveal their quirky depths. Played out well thanks to the revolutionary television sitcom producer and creator Jacobs, who is also responsible for penning Broadway's Cheaters from 1978, the innovative take on two witty characters is something the people could not miss, as Impressionism tickets are selling like a moth to a flame.
Along with Irons and Allen, the full cast of acting veterans includes four time Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason (Steel Magnolias, Night of the Iguana), Hadley Delany, Tony nominee Andre De Shields (The Full Monty, Play On!), Aaron Lazar (Les Miserables, Tale of Two Cities), Michael T. Weiss (The Pretender) and Margarita Levieva. With the help from Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien (The Coast of Utopia, Hairspray) in the director's chair, the play centered around a series of impressionistic paintings is sure to paint the town "impressionist." As deemed by the play's website, "Impressionism is the story of an international photojournalist and a New York gallery owner whose unexpected brush with intimacy leads them to realize that there is quite an art to repairing broken lives."
"It's a play about mature love," said Irons to the New York Post. "About the process and how, should it find you, you must be willing to give up your own personal emotional neurotic baggage. That is, if you want to come together with another person at this second stage of your life." Though the actor can't relate, adding that he "fell in love with my wife when I was young," he does appreciate the homey feel of such a relatable theme. After two decades away from the shining lights of Broadway, Allen returns with just as must zeal as she did during her first casting. Working with O'Brien again (their first pairing came in the '80s), the director notes to the New York Times, "What's interesting is that after all these years she's still completely pure. There's no ego involved. There's no murk to cut through. There's no posse trailing."
Irons, who hasn't been on the stage since his 1984 Tony winning performance in The Real Thing, is accompanied by the equally long awaited returned of Allen, gracing the stage for the first time since her Tony nominated performance in The Heidi Chronicles in 1989. While the play remains scheduled for a limited engagement through July 5th, its performance is bound to see much success with an award winning team that includes Scott Pask (scenic design), Catherine Zuber (costume design), Natasha Katz (lighting design), Elaine McCarthy (projection design), Leon Rothenberg (sound design) and original music by Bob James - so make sure to check it out.
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