Photo Coverage: Daphne Rubin-Vega, Rosie O'Donnell and More Lead the New Group's WOMEN BEHIND BARS Reading
By: Jennifer Broski May. 08, 2012
On Monday, May 7, Women Behind Bars arrived at The New Group @ Theatre Row in a one-night-only benefit reading of the play by Tom Eyen.
Directed by Scott Elliott, Women Behind Bars featured: Charles Busch (The Matron), Janeane Garofalo (Louise), Nancy Giles (Jo-Jo), Josh Hamilton (the men), Natasha Lyonne (Cheri), Cynthia Nixon (Blanche), Rosie O'Donnell (Gloria), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Guadalupe), Rhea Perlman (Granny, The Warden) and Jennifer Tilly (Ada). Check out photos below!
Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski
It's New Year's Eve 1952 in The Women's House of Detention in Greenwich Village. When the innocent and lovely Mary-Eleanor is framed by her husband and put away, her arrival in the house of detention sparks rivalries that build to increasingly dangerous -- not to say unspeakable and hilarious -- conflicts among her fellow prisoners and the sadistic Matron. An outrageous send-up of the classic genre of 1950s movies set in women's prisons, Women Behind Bars is a wild ensemble piece by Tom Eyen (who went on to write Dreamgirls). Women Behind Bars premiered in New York in 1974 (The New York Theatre Ensemble) and transferred to Off-Broadway's The Astor Place Theatre, where it opened in May 1975.
Nancy Giles, Daphne Rubin-Vega
Janeane Garofalo, Halley Feiffer
The Cast of Women Behind Bars
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