See Two-time Emmy Award Winner & Mama's Family Star
Dorothy Lyman
in
A Marriage Digested
Directed by Elinor Renfield
Information
Two-time Emmy Award-winner Dorothy Lyman returns to New York to heat up the stage in MY KITCHEN WARS, a new work based on the acclaimed memoirs of Betty Fussell. Lyman portrays Fussell during the course of her unusual thirty-year marriage to Princeton professor Paul Fussell, battling over food, freedom and fidelity. Set against a backdrop of high-balls, haute cuisine and sex, it is the coming of age tale of a 1950ıs faculty wife emerging as an independent woman in conflict with her husbandıs expectations.
MY KITCHEN WARS marks Dorothy Lymans return to the city that ignited her career. Lyman won two Emmy Awards for her portrayal of Opal Gardner on "All My Children" She gained great notoriety as Naomi on "Mama's Family" and produced and directed three complete seasons of "The Nanny." Lyman began her career with Joseph Chaikinıs Open Theatre, wrote and starred in "A Rage in Tenure" (4 Dramalogue Awards), and directed and later starred in the New York production and national tour of "A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking."
Location
78th Street Theatre Lab - 236 W. 78th Street, NYC
Performances
Previews begin March 5th
Opens March 17th- May 1st
Schedule
Wed - Sat at 8:00, Sun at 7:30, matinees on Wed & Sat at 2:30 and Sun at 3:00
Tickets
Regular Price (All Seats) - $35 / Group Price (8 or more) - $25
How to set up your groups
Contact Chris or Meri at SRO (212) 391-1547 / Fax (212) 391-1546
Extras
Talk-backs with Dorothy Lyman and/or Betty Fussell can be scheduled with advance notice.
Deeply discounted copies of My Kitchen Wars by Betty Fussell can be made available to your groups with notice in advance.
