Two-time Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson makes her long-awaited return to Broadway, on the heels of her triumphant reappearance last season on London's West End after a 25-year absence, alongside three-time Emmy and Tony Award winner Laurie Metcalf and Tony nominee Alison Pill in the Broadway premiere of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Three Tall Women.
In addition to the Pulitzer, the play also won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Two-time Tony winner Joe Mantello directs.
"The best show I've seen all year? This one. Far and away. One of the best things I have ever seen." - Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
"I trust you'll need no urging to buy a ticket, assuming you can snag one." - Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal
"Thank God for Three Tall Women, is all I'm saying." - Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker
Her jaw thrust forward like a prow, her elfin eyes belying her regal bearing, her wide-screen mouth wrapping itself around those slashing, implacable consonants - they're all exactly as you remember them and want them to be. Or if you've never experienced them, welcome to the pleasure. Either way, Glenda Jackson is back; even better, she's back in a role that's big enough to need her.
Three Tall Women, directed with a sublimely paced grace by Joe Mantello, is very funny and very sad. It charts the progress of a life, and a discussion of the self as it ages, from the vantage point of knowing everything, down through the middle age of knowing quite a bit, and then the young person not knowing much at all.
1994 | Off-Broadway |
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1994 | Off-Broadway |
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2018 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2018 | BroadwayWorld Awards | Best Leading Actress in a Play | Glenda Jackson |
2018 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Glenda Jackson |
2018 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Laurie Metcalf |
2018 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design for a Play | Ann Roth |
2018 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Joe Mantello |
2018 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play | Paul Gallo |
2018 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Three Tall Women |
2018 | Drama Desk Awards | The Hudson Scenic Studio Award for Outstanding Set Design of a Play | Miriam Buether |
2018 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Glenda Jackson |
2018 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Laurie Metcalf |
2018 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play | Three Tall Women |
2018 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Glenda Jackson |
2018 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Joe Mantello |
2018 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Laurie Metcalf |
2018 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Three Tall Women |
2018 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Miriam Buether |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Play | Ann Roth |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Joe Mantello |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Laurie Metcalf |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Glenda Jackson |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Three Tall Women |
2018 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Play | Miriam Buether |
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