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.
LONG WHARF THEATRE, founded in 1965, is recognized as a leader in American theater, producing fresh and imaginative revivals of classics and modern plays, rediscoveries of neglected works and a variety of world and American premieres.
More than 30 Long Wharf productions have transferred virtually intact to Broadway or off-Broadway, including the 2005 production of BFE by
Julia Cho, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Wit by Margaret Edson, The Shadow Box by
Michael Cristofer, and The Gin Game by D.L. Coburn.
Long Wharf has received New York Drama Critics Awards, Obie Awards, the Margo Jefferson Award for Production of New Works, a Special Citation from the Outer Critics Circle, and the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre.
