Newsday Reviews MTC's NIGHTINGALE

Newsday has published an article titled "Lynn Redgrave's loss is audience's gain in 'Nightingale'." The article was published November 3, 2009.

The article was written by Lynn Redgrave and begins "'Nightingale' is an imaginative, compelling, cannily constructed 85 minutes about far more than we think we already know about Lynn Redgrave's losses.

Lynn Redgrave walks jauntily over to the chair and the handsome writing desk onstage at Manhattan Theatre Club. She smiles conspiratorially at the audience, as if acknowledging that we already know more about her than strangers really should.

She pushes up the sleeves of her comfy cardigan, hardly looking at the pages propped before her. And, in about 30 seconds of rapid-fire sentence fragments, she recaps - without naming names - her last decade of famous-family disasters: her catastrophic divorce, her mastectomy, the death of her actress mother, the heart attack of her actor brother and the death of her niece, Natasha Richardson, about whom she says, 'a bright light is gone.'"

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Tony Award® and Academy Award® nominee Lynn Redgrave stars in her new play inspired by her need to create a life for her maternal grandmother, a woman she barely knew. NIGHTINGALE is a play about a promising woman stymied by society and all but erased by history, a touching personal tribute and a resounding song for all those people whose voices we've lost, or never known.

The creative team for NIGHTINGALE includes Tobin Ost (Scenic Design), Alejo Vietti (Costume Design), Rui Rita(Lighting Design), and John Gromada (Original Music & Sound Design).

Subscriptions to MTC's 2009-2010 season are currently available by calling (212) 399-3050, Monday - Friday, noon - 10 PM, Saturday 2 PM - 6 PM with a major credit card. Subscriptions are also available online at www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com.

Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, MTC has become one of the country's most prominent and prestigious theatre companies. MTC productions have earned a total of 16 Tony Awards and six Pulitzer Prizes, an accomplishment unparalleled by a New York theatrical institution. MTC has their Broadway home at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) and an Off-Broadway theatre at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street). Renowned MTC productions include Ruined; The American Plan; Top Girls; Come Back, Little Sheba; Blackbird; Translations; Shining City; Rabbit Hole; Doubt; Proof; The Tale of the Allergist's Wife; Love! Valour! Compassion!; A Small Family Business; Sylvia; Putting It Together; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Crimes of the Heart; and Ain't Misbehavin'.

Tickets for NIGHTINGALE are available via New York City Center Box Office (131 West 55th Street), CityTix® (212-581-1212) and www.nycitycenter.org. Tickets for NIGHTINGALE are $75.

Photo credit: Peter James Zielinski