Long Wharf Theatre Extends 'Hughie' Through 11/16
By: Faetra Petillo Oct. 09, 2008
Due to tremendous audience interest, the critically acclaimed Goodman Theatre production of Hughie, starring Brian Dennehy and Joe Grifasi and directed by Robert Falls, will be extended for a week with the run now concluding on Nov. 16.
Tickets can be purchased online; or by calling 203-787-4282. In addition, members of the cast will join the theatre’s literary staff after each performance for Ghostlight, a post-show conversation, to share insights into the rehearsal process and the production of Hughie.“We are very excited about this opportunity to share with our audiences a pair of magnificent performances for just a little bit longer. Brian and Joe are consummate artists and we look forward to watching their already excellent work continue to grow. It is a very exciting opportunity for Long Wharf Theatre,” said Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein.Charles Isherwood of the New York Times is unstinting of his praise of both Dennehy and Grifasi: “Mr. Dennehy is ideally cast as O’Neill’s Erie Smith, the amiable blowhard who stumbles home to his fleabag hotel and gradually cajoles the new night clerk into playing the role of conspirator in his self-delusion. . . . Mr. Dennehy’s windy, desperate bonhomie is both comic and pathetic, his tales of past glory as obviously threadbare as his rumpled white suit. . . . As the night clerk, the blank mirror in which Erie searches pleadingly for the self he wants to see, Joe Grifasi is terrific, a hollow-eyed fellow long since emptied of the will to believe that Erie clings to by his fingernails,” Isherwood writes in the August 31 issue of the Times.
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