John Guare
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Usually, you have a tough time casting kids, but not in this case ... Every year, McCarter does ‘A Christmas Carol,’ so they have this stable of children that gave us plenty of candidates.
We’ve been together 37 years now ... The 10 days in 1975 before I met her in Nantucket spurred this new play.
The DC HORN Foundation/Yale Drama Series prize for an emerging playwright, received over a thousand entries this year ... My readers and I found Beautiful Province by Clarence Coo to be the most successfully realized play. I admired it for its bold theatricality, its daring, its ambitious theme, its consistent tone, its heightened language. The contest searches for a brave new voice in the English-speaking world. We found this year's winner in Clarence Coo's Beautiful Province.More quotes »
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McPhee-ling like leaving
to a windbag telling an endless story with no apparent point? Such is the experience of watching “Are You There, McPhee?” John Guare’s new play, receiving its world premiere at Princeton’s McCarter Theater, reveals far more imagination than needed discipline. from New York Post Read more »
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John Guare's latest play brings literary lunacy to the McCarter Theatre in Princeton
Berlind Theatre is the ca-raziest play that Princeton may have seen since the borough was incorporated in 1813. It’s John Guare’s newest, “Are You There, McPhee?” Guare is 74 now — but a theatergoer would never know it from this wild ‘n’ wooly comedy-drama-farce. from NJ.com Read more »
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Review: South Jersey: Are You There, McPhee?
following John Guare's career knows his output is like no other and therefore makes the prolific fellow a national treasure. His latest autobiographically-inspired play, Are You There, McPhee?, now making its world premiere at Princeton's McCarter Theatre from TheaterMania.com Read more »
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Are You There, McPhee? at McCarter Theatre Center isn't all there
lobster first appears early in Are You There, McPhee? the new John Guare play currently enjoying its world premiere at the Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton. Its a monster too: an 11-pound male old enough to collect social security, and from Asbury Park Press Read more »
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Review: 'Are You There, McPhee?'
Howard ShapiroINQUIRER STAFF WRITERFrom the get-go, you know you’re into a bizarre tale with John Guare’s Are You There, McPhee?, a world premiere that opened Friday at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre. Its narrator, a playwright, tells acquaintances that he has from Philly.com Read more »
