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Molly Smith Metzler’s play Close Up Space will receive its world premiere in December at Manhattan Theatre Club, starring Michael Chernus and David Hyde Pierce.
Synopsis from the MTC Web site: Tony and Emmy Award winner Pierce will play Paul Barrow, an obsessive book editor on a major deadline. With an assistant who’s been camping in the office (Chernus), a famous author threatening to bail on him and an intern who is no help at all, Paul’s just about had it! But when his fiery daughter shows up and lambasts him in Russian, Paul faces a glaring personal error that can’t be corrected with red ink. Leigh Silverman (Well, In the Wake, From Up Here) returns to MTC to direct this funny and poignant new play about how hard it can be to communicate…in any language.
Earlier this spring, Molly's play Elemeno Pea (which she talks about here) was a hit at the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of New Plays.
What a MASSIVE year – go, Molly, go!
Synopsis from the MTC Web site: Tony and Emmy Award winner Pierce will play Paul Barrow, an obsessive book editor on a major deadline. With an assistant who’s been camping in the office (Chernus), a famous author threatening to bail on him and an intern who is no help at all, Paul’s just about had it! But when his fiery daughter shows up and lambasts him in Russian, Paul faces a glaring personal error that can’t be corrected with red ink. Leigh Silverman (Well, In the Wake, From Up Here) returns to MTC to direct this funny and poignant new play about how hard it can be to communicate…in any language.
Earlier this spring, Molly's play Elemeno Pea (which she talks about here) was a hit at the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of New Plays.
What a MASSIVE year – go, Molly, go!
Hello Boston Playwright's! I saw Molly's first work go up in your theatre. It was a place of nurturing and support for which her siblings and I will be forever grateful. You helped her find her voice! Thank you seems such an understatement.
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Thanks so much for your kind words here. I read -- and loved -- Molly's 'Training Wisteria' before I enrolled at BPT. Her success is inspiring!
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