America's most iconic sex therapist, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, attended FREUD'S LAST SESSION, the runaway hit play by Mark St. Germain, Saturday evening, August 13th at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, 10 West 64th Street (at Central Park West). After the performance, she visited with the show's stars Martin Rayner (as Sigmund Freud) and Tuck Milligan (currently appearing as C. S. Lewis for the vacationing Mark H. Dold). The three sat down for a lengthy chat on Freud's onstage couch. In 2004, Dr. Ruth was quoted as saying, "Freud was a genius in many aspects of human behavior, but for us women Freud was a catastrophe. Freud was sexually illiterate." She confided to Rayner and Milligan that although she'll continue to stand firm on her negative opinion of Freud the man, she absolutely loved the play and promised to return again soon with several of her friends.
FREUD'S LAST SESSION is in its second smash year, making it the longest-running play from last season on or Off-Broadway. The New York premiere engagement of FREUD'S LAST SESSION opened on July 22, 2010 to rave reviews and immediately became a sellout sensation. Additional productions of the phenomenally successful play are already set through 2012 in major markets across the nation and around the world including London, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles, Stockholm, Mexico City, Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Palm Beach.
Under the direction of
Tyler Marchant, FREUD'S LAST SESSION is the winner of the 2011 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play.
FREUD'S LAST SESSION centers on legendary psychoanalyst Dr.
Sigmund Freud, who invites the young, rising academic star C. S. Lewis to his home in London. Lewis, expecting to be called on the carpet for satirizing Freud in a recent book, soon realizes Freud has a much more significant agenda. On the day England enters World War II, Freud and Lewis clash on the existence of God, love, sex, and the meaning of life - just two weeks before Freud chooses to take his own. Not just a powerful debate, this is a profound and deeply
touching play about two men who boldly addressed the greatest questions of all time.
Mark St. Germain's celebrated new play was suggested by the bestselling book The Question of God by Harvard's Dr. Armand M. Nicholi, Jr.
There have been an unusually high number of celebrity spottings at FREUD'S LAST SESSION, including such luminaries as
Woody Allen,
Alec Baldwin,
Barbara Walters,
John Cleese,
Jerry Stiller,
Marcia Gay Harden,
Dick Cavett, Andy Rooney,
Scott Adsit,
Christiane Amanpour,
Patricia Heaton,
Dan Lauria,
Celeste Holm,
T.R. Knight,
Tina Louise, Warner Wolf, Cornel West, The Amazing Kreskin, and NFL Commissioner
Roger Goodell.
FREUD'S LAST SESSION is presented Off-Broadway by
Carolyn Rossi Copeland,
Robert Stillman and
Jack Thomas. The performance schedule is Tuesdays at 7pm, Wednesday through Friday evenings at 8pm, Saturdays at 2 & 8pm, and Sundays at 3 & 7pm. Tickets are $65 and are available by calling 212-352-3101 or through www.FreudsLastSession.com. A limited number of $20 Student Rush tickets (cash only, with valid student ID) are available at the box office beginning three hours prior to each performance.
For more information, visit
www.FreudsLastSession.com.
Tuck Milligan, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Martin Rayner
