This time, the audience gasps in something like horror. Here are the bare bones of its familiar-sounding plot: Wheeler, in the midst of a protracted divorce and estranged from (and seemingly uninterested in) his 13-year-old son, moves into his own place, an apartment complex (as squalidly sterile as such environments can be, in Todd Rosenthal’s set, lighted without mercy by Marcus Doshi). Broadway News. Wheeler (Ian Barford) is recently separated from his wife and even more recently moved out of her garage where he slept on a cot. All of the aforementioned actors appeared in the Broadway production of August: Osage County and now reunite with the playwright for another Broadway venture. Linda Vista will play the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted, Chicago, through May 21, 2017. Tracy Letts is a magician, or better yet a griot, “a repository of oral tradition”. The stories he tells have the feeling of being told before. They seem like stories we have already heard – which does not diminish the telling in any way. Such an attitude is atmospheric in “Linda Vista,” and it manifests in an assortment of casual cultural references: to a true crime television show (about a sex slave in a basement); comic book superhero movies; humiliation porn; and that monumental work of navel gazing, “My Struggle” by Karl Ove Knausgaard. Some women will surely ask the question rhetorically and in disgust; some men, full of hope. That’s a question theatergoers are likely to ask about Wheeler, the central character in Linda Vista, Tracy Letts’ latest play on Broadway. In addition to “Linda Vista,” the prolific playwright will have another show produced on Broadway this season. are a diverse lot. Never mind that Wheeler is 50. Similar types regularly stalked Broadway and the West End, in plays by dramatists as different as Simon Gray (“Butley,” “Otherwise Engaged”), Alan Ayckbourn (“The Norman Conquests”) and Neil Simon (“Jake’s Women”). “Linda Vista” is as packed with nasty zingers as an HBO sitcom. Performance schedules for all shows are subject to change. Ian Barford on his challenging role in Tracy Letts' 'Linda Vista' on Broadway Your Broadway Fall Preview! Barford, right, and True-Frost play best friends who debate topics like the right word for big breasts. Caroline Neff, left, plays a woman who works in a photo repair shop alongside Barford’s Wheeler. And oh, the pity of it. The Helen Hayes Theatre will showcase Linda Vista for a … “Linda Vista” premiered at Steppenwolf in Chicago. Broadway review: "Linda Vista" is the Tracy Letts play starring Ian Barford and a mostly-Chicago cast in a play set in Southern California, and is Steppenwolf's latest Broadway transfer. This show has now closed. That, though, was a lyrical and oblique work that heard the abyss of nonexistence roaring within long silences. Linda Vista NYT Critic's Pick Broadway, Drama, Play Closing Date: Nov. 10, 2019 Helen Hayes Theater, 240 W. 44th St. 212-239-6200. When we first see Wheeler, he’s moving into new digs in San Diego, with the help of his best friend, Paul (Jim True-Frost), schlepping boxes and overstuffed bags with the sloppy casualness of college boys returning to campus. If you have any additional questions about content, age-appropriateness or stage effects (such as strobe lights or theatrical fog) that might have a bearing on patron comfort, please contact the … The full creative team for “Linda Vista” includes scenic design by Todd Rosenthal, costume design by Laura Bauer, lighting design by Marcus Doshi, sound design by Richard Woodbury, and casting by TELSEY + COMPANY. Linda Vista takes a brutally comedic look at Wheeler, a 50-year-old divorcee in the throes of a mid-life spiral. Just out of his ex-wife’s garage and into a place of his own, Wheeler starts on a path toward self-discovery — navigating blind dates, old friends, and new love. Full of opinions, yet short on self-examination, Wheeler must reconcile the man he has become with the man he wants to be. Anyway, Wheeler — a word snob who has a gift for stating home truths that nobody else dares utter — soon has the audience in the palm of his 11 ½-sized hand. Linda Vista's strongest elements spring from Letts' nuanced handling of his characters. Second Stage Theater presents the Steppenwolf Theatre production of Linda Vista (in association with Center Theatre Group), written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tracy Letts and directed by Dexter Bullard, as part of its 2019-2020 Broadway season. Tickets Through Nov. 10 at the Hayes Theater, Manhattan; 212-246-4422, 2st.com. Official Broadway production photos released for Second Stage Theater's Linda Vista October 9, 2019 Ahead of tomorrow's official opening at The And each female character, in her own way, has learned how to navigate an environment that has been polluted by misogyny. He has also starred in the ground-breaking Broadway premiere of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, as well as a dozen production at Steppenwolf in Chicago. This gasp-inducing moment was exactly when I decided that Mr. Letts’s latest play, directed with astutely varied pacing and room for rage by Dexter Bullard, was going to be a lot more interesting than I had thought. It won’t be the last time it does so. For tickets and further information, visit www.steppenwolf.org or call 312-335-1650. ‘Linda Vista’ Review: A Womanizer Who Devastates as He Charms. She sounded angry. Running time: 2 hours 40 minutes. Played with immense, shaggy charm — and anger to match — by Ian Barford in a performance that reminds you of how brilliantly bruising Steppenwolf acting can be, this charismatic loser is named Wheeler. Second Stage Theater in association with Center Theatre Group, Ian Barford (as Wheeler), Sally Murphy (as Margaret), Caroline Neff (as Anita), Chantal Thuy (as Minnie), Jim True-Frost (as Paul), Cora Vander Broek (as Jules), and Troy West (as Michael), 240 West 44th Street (between Broadway and 8th Avenue), New York, NY 10036, 42nd Street - Port Authority Bus Terminal Station, theatre Share: New York Theater October 10, 2019 Leave a comment Can an underemployed middle-aged jerk be a babe magnet? From left, Jim True-Frost, Cora Vander Broek, Ian Barford and Sally Murphy in “Linda Vista,” a Steppenwolf Theater production now on Broadway. The oldest and first dedicated online New York theater guide, Read news on over 150 Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, Follow us for the latest theater newsTwitter Facebook. Tracy Letts’s “Linda Vista” has announced complete casting for its Broadway run this fall. Read our full 4* review here. Broadway sees possibility for federal aid post-election. And in the production’s first half I worried that Letts might be hoping to fill the vacuum left by the death of Simon, the lucrative master of the breezy comedy of anxiety. The play, you see, memorably includes several gut-wrenching occasions when Barford’s Wheeler flips his appealingly grouchy persona to reveal a black hole of ugly, flailing, desperate narcissism. Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tracy Letts takes a brutally comedic look at Wheeler, a 50-year-old divorcee in the throes of a mid-life spiral. Hoping perhaps to replicate the astonishing success of August: Osage County, Letts has drafted a few familiar faces to fill a number of roles in Linda Vista, including cast members Sally Murphy, Jim True-Frost, Troy West, and, of course, Ian Barford, who takes on the central role of Wheeler in this new dark comedy. Chantal Thuy and Ian Barford in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Tracy Letts’ 'Linda Vista.' And there’s a hilarious riff on their teenage crush on Ali MacGraw, who, Paul says, confessed to being a sex addict in her memoir. Is this talk too sexist for comfort? After moving of his ex-wife's couch, he finally finds a place of his own and he takes a journey to try rediscover who he really is, or was. Wheeler is a 50-year-old divorcee in the throes of a mid-life spiral. (Photos: Emilio Madrid for Broadway.com) Tracy Letts' dark comedy Linda Vista, starring Ian Barford as 50-year-old divorcee Wheeler, officially opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre on October 10. 2019 Edition. Now cut to a scene early in the second act when Wheeler, on a date in a restaurant, ends a promising relationship with a brusque, simple sentence that lands like a lethal karate chop. The everyday poison known as toxic masculinity becomes dangerously easy to swallow in “Linda Vista,” Tracy Letts’s inspired, ruthless take on the classic midlife-crisis comedy. See our list of theatre He presents himself picturesquely as a born loser and is delighted when a young woman in a bar offers this quick-sketch character portrait: “Let me guess. Now, this relationship continues to grow and expands to Broadway with this New York premiere of Linda Vista. Before Letts swam into the mainstream with “August,” he was a master of pitch-dark comedies that measured the grisliest depths of human behavior (“Killer Joe,” “Bug”). ‘Linda Vista’ Broadway Review: Tracy Letts Play Gets Last Laugh On Know-It-All Radiohead Hater Greg Evans. The cast of ‘Linda Vista’ on Broadway (Photo: Joan Marcus) his Pulitzer-shortlisted “Man From Nebraska,”. Following acclaimed runs at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago in 2017 and at Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles earlier this year, Linda Vista is finally open on the Great White Way! And that despite his failing hip and fatuous flippancy during emotional crises, he’ll always find women who want him. They are beautifully portrayed by Sally Murphy (as Margaret, Paul’s wife); Cora Vander Broek (Jules, a professional life coach and Margaret’s good friend); Caroline Neff (Anita, who works in the shop with Wheeler); and Chantal Thuy (Minnie, a 20-something American-Vietnamese rockabilly chick). In the sunny opening scenes of this very funny, equally unsettling Steppenwolf Theater production — which opened on Thursday at the Hayes Theater — you’ll probably feel like cozying up to that sheepish, disheveled big guy who rules the stage with his outspoken wit. Letts has forged a fruitful relationship with Second Stage Theater in recent years, with the company staging his plays Man from Nebraska (itself a 2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist) and Mary Page Marlowe at the Tony Kiser Theater in 2017 and 2018, respectively. Tracy Letts, the author of “August: Osage County,” reinvents the midlife crisis play with a hilarity that scalds in this Steppenwolf production. Home; News. His play “The Minutes” (which also previously bowed at Steppenwolf in Chicago) will begin performances this coming spring, under the direction of Anna D. Shapiro. Ian Barford, a Steppenwolf Theatre Company member since 2007, made his short-lived Broadway debut in 1994 in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, before finding success with August: Osage County in 2007. Two of them, I should warn you, appear with Barford in stark-naked, tragicomic sex scenes that elicit the awkwardness and loneliness of human erotic congress. “My Struggle” by Karl Ove Knausgaard. You’re a deadbeat, work a dead-end job, married — no wait, divorced — hate your wife and kids, hate everybody, depressed, can’t get laid, your body’s breaking down, the only thing that still runs is your mouth.”. Last night Second Stage Theater kicked off its largest Broadway season to date with the official opening of the first of three productions at The Hayes Theater. “Oh, absolutely,” she responded. And though he can be lacerating to others, he’s hardest of all on himself. And when discussing a group of possible Trump voters, he declaims, “you cannot be friends with these people,” the theater bursts into applause. Their conversation, too, has a sophomoric ring, as they debate the right word for big breasts, like the pair on one of Wheeler’s co-workers. Read news, see photos and watch videos. "Linda Vista" is very much a classic Steppenwolf kind of show — funny, edgy, smart — and I don't doubt it will be a hit, and so it deserves to be, but you can, in its best moments, see it as a meditation on that old Steppenwolf brand, colliding uneasily against the new realities and interests of the American theater." Linda Vista includes nudity and frank depictions of sex. And even with us knowing what we know, he remains as charming as ever. Ahead of tomorrow's official opening at The Hayes Theater on Broadway, official production photography has now been released for the New York premiere of Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tracy Letts' dark comedy Linda Vista. Letts’s long-awaited return to Broadway received mostly positive notices. Last Updated On January 21, 2020 Home Broadway Linda Vista Opens On Broadway At Helen Hayes Theatre! Written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tracy Letts, this dark comedic take on a midlife crisis comes with an age recommendation of 16+ and is as entertaining as it is colorful... And they are blessed with a self-preserving intelligence that always keeps them this side of social caricature. As it ends, he is making a passive-aggressive pitch to yet another woman, to whom he has acted as a sort of white knight. (Photo by Craig Schwartz.) By that, I mean the tale of the clever, existentially challenged womanizer staring down the second half of his life. Linda Vista (Closed November 10, 2019) | Broadway - Buy tickets and see show information.  Full of opinions, yet short on self-examination, Wheeler must reconcile the man he has become with the man he wants to be. As a playwright, Tracy Letts took the Broadway scene by storm in 2007 with his widely celebrated and critically acclaimed drama August: Osage County, which went on to scoop the Tony Award for “Best Play” and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2008. Sure, he’s a perpetually randy man, but he gives great lip service to the more reasonable forms of political correctness. Through the lens of playwright Tracy Letts, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. How could you not fall for this self-flagellating, frustrated artist, who looks, as one woman puts, it “like a turtle who doesn’t know he’s lost his shell”? “Linda Vista” is one of those boulevard comedies that you don’t see on Broadway anymore. And as he keeps racking up the sexual conquests, a part of us is meant to cheer him on. Pretty accurate. Wheeler was once a photographer for a Chicago newspaper, but now repairs cameras in a storefront shop. Acclaimed Broadway playwright Tracy Letts opened his new play "Linda Vista" at the Helen Hayes Theater this week. Letts, for the record, has already explored this much-tilled territory in his Pulitzer-shortlisted “Man From Nebraska,” seen here in 2017 (and, like “Linda Vista,” a Second Stage presentation.) But don’t make the mistake of equating vulnerability with harmlessness. Browse 300+ critical Linda Vista reviews & compare Linda Vista ticket prices. Linda Vista (Original, Play, Comedy, Broadway) opened in New York City Oct 10, 2019 and played through Nov 10, 2019. I am happy to report that this side of him is alive and squirming in “Linda Vista.”. SIGN UP for Gold Derby’s free newsletter with latest predictions.  Just out of his ex-wife’s garage and into a place of his own, Wheeler starts on a path toward self-discovery — navigating blind dates, old friends, and new love. Wheeler might argue that he and Paul are just goofing (sort of), that they’re also enlightened 21st-century men who understand that some kinds of behavior regarding the opposite sex are no longer cool. “Linda Vista” stars Ian Barford, Sally Murphy, Caroline Neff, Chantal Thuy, Jim True-Frost, Cora Vander Broek, and Troy West. The multi-faceted Wheeler isn't easily pinned down. Sep 06, 2019 A guide to 21 upcoming (or recently opened) productions Back to top. tickets for shows currently on sale. 50-year-old Wheeler finds himself newly divorced and in the midst of his own mid-life downward spiral. Wheeler, it must be said, has plenty of acidic comments to make about such phenomena. Discover Broadway shows you love at the price that’s right for you. It went on to have its Los Angeles premiere at Center Theatre Group in the Mark Taper Forum in February 2019 - and now it’s on Broadway. Linda Vista is recommended for ages 16+ for nudity and frank depictions of sex. My dad had shelves of novels about such men — written by Kingsley Amis, John Updike and Philip Roth. May not be suitable for people under 18. You can sense that kind of self-consciousness at work when he’s talking to women. Linda Vista | Broadway Direct ALL BROADWAY SHOWS IN NYC SUSPENDED THROUGH MAY 30, 2021. Television made them obsolete, and in its opening scenes, “Linda Vista” plays like a … tickets, New York Theatre Guide at the Opening Night of Linda Vista on Broadway, Official Broadway production photos released for Second Stage Theater's Linda Vista, Review of Second Stage Theater's Linda Vista on Broadway. I asked the woman with whom I saw the play if she thought Wheeler would make a conquest of this last character. (l to r) Cora Vander Broek and Ian Barford in ‘Linda Vista.’ (Photo: Joan Marcus) By Matthew Wexler. Sometimes sad, sometimes like a slow car crash, sometimes hilarious. Amid an increasingly (and gratefully) diverse collection of narratives arriving on Broadway, Linda Vista boldly challenges the perception of straight white male privilege. ABOUT US. Up to that point, I had worried that the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “August: Osage County” was simply reanimating a tired literary formula. In his loose but astute Linda Vista, Tracy Letts rips the blinders away. Linda Vista on Broadway Background. The women we meet in “Linda Vista” (and though that’s what Wheeler’s neighborhood is called, doesn’t it sound like the ultimate girlfriend?) Should you see ‘Linda Vista’ on Broadway? Actually, it’s Dick Wheeler, but he prefers to dispense with the first name, perhaps on the theory that it’s better not to provide too many clues to your essential nature. 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