Tickets and information: . And that's quite fun to do even if the material is painful. LONERGAN: It was a great apartment! "The Waverly Gallery" is an exciting chance to see legendary actress Eileen Heckart give a fascinating performance as octogenarian Gladys Green who is alive and kicking, but whose brain is slowly being consumed by Alzheimer's Disease. LONERGAN: Yeah, and it's not your movie. "[9], Ben Brantley in The New York Times called the play a "finely observed story of the predations of old age[it] isn't so much a proper play as an essayistic memoir given dramatic form. LONERGAN: I'm sure she'd love something that was about her in her heyday, but I don't think she would enjoy this at all. LONERGAN: No. Which is how it turned out. I miss huge swaths of experience, but (LAUGHS) of little pieces that I remember, I remember pretty well. "The Waverly Gallery" marks the fifth collaboration between J Stage Theatre and the professional production company. Three officers shot, standoff follows in Kansas City, Mo., police say, Vanessa Bryant, family settles claims over Kobe crash site photos for $28.5M. LONERGAN: I think so. All of those things that you touch on in this are really, it's heavy. When push came to shove, I failed him. LONERGAN: Yeah. And it's hard, it's not really for me to say. And I thought, "Oh gee. Kenneth Lonergans wonderful play The Waverly Gallery, partnership with Mike Nichols is still considered the gold standard, their appearance on Broadway together in the early 1960s, An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May,, It will be one of the hottest tickets in town, First staged Off Broadway in 2000, with a very fine Eileen Heckart as Gladys, , Sign up for our Theater Update newsletter. Could you maybe add some depth to the characters." LONERGAN: And if you wanna do everything for them, you should direct it yourself (LAUGH) or shut up. And mainly you wanna get a great person in the lead role, and that's where Elaine May comes in. And it changes into something bigger now. How are we gonna make sure, the person might not wanna take a shower, or they take too many, you know? John Golden Theatre. LONERGAN: Yeah, I think it's the best one I've done of the three [I directed]. She's got dementia, and it's about how she tries to hang on to what she's got, and how her family, her daughter and grandson and all them cope with this extremely difficult end of life. They're there to support and pay for the film, and they're very anxious about how it's gonna turn out. She wasn't, like, a hard-core political person, but she was always very active in politics. ALTSCHUL: Once you've written something and put it down on paper, does it then inhabit a separate space from your memory? So there's a theatrical version and the extended edition. The Waverly Gallery is a play by Kenneth Lonergan. It also takes place on the Upper West Side, where I grew up. And it's a very big world. Eileen Heckart in "The Waverly Gallery" 7,094 views Jun 8, 2017 79 Dislike Share Save Luke Yankee 1.06K subscribers Eileen Heckart in scenes from the Off Broadway production of Kenneth. It seems very interesting. This natural, relaxed dialogue between characters? Most of the stuff with Daniel Day-Lewis' character was really good, so I barely touched that. You can know a lot more about them they you might know about a character that you have invented. My mother really took care of her, but my mother lived uptown and I was on the scene, so I was . Lucas Hedges and Elaine May in The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan, directed by Lila Neugebauer. LONERGAN: Yeah, it is hard. Shes a woman of diverse talents acting, directing, writing, sketch comedy so its easy to forget just how talented she is. But not for a lot of money, I don't think. When does a young man decide, "I'm going to try directing now. The Waverly Gallery, now revived on Broadway, is an early play by Kenneth Lonergan and as directed by Lila Neugebauer and upraised by Elaine Mays toweringly fragile performance, it is as quietly and ferociously sad as anything he has ever produced. [8]), Charles Isherwood in Variety said, "The life trauma being depicted has an inherent pathos, and in Lonergan's hands, no small amount of comic potential. Discover the beauty of The Waverly. LONERGAN: Oh, I'm afraid that's true. He writes speeches for the Environmental Protection . How are we gonna get her to go to the bathroom without embarrassing her? And their loneliness, their isolation, their confusion, their anxiety, real and unreal. LONERGAN: I don't know what they mean exactly, because you know, I often find when I'm watching something, it's when they bring in the sensational event that I start to lose interest. If it was dirge it would be terrible. But you're not there to express yourself. It's not that. And I'm able to participate without taking over. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. ALTSCHUL: So when you find yourself in those situations, then you say, "I'm gonna write this. She is one of five stellar cast members, notably Lucas . I was one of his disciples. People who are lucky who don't mind being in them and the ones that are very nice, if you can afford them, are great. There's a character who's a painter who's inspired by a real guy, but his personality bears no resemblance to the real guy, who I didn't know that well. And that's the other thing that I'm interested in, anyway, is that a lot of these big situations come down to practicalities, like who can be there at 5:00? His particular skills, especially his ear for dialogue, take on a poignant quality here. I was asked to come on two weeks before they were supposed to start shooting. And I don't care.". Most people don't like being in those facilities. (LAUGHTER) But she's a genius, and she's incredible in the part, and I always wanted her to play this role. She leased the space from the hotel. Is it that dialogue that makes a piece feel timeless? That movie was so late in the process that every other movie I've ever script doctored, they always rewrite you after you're done anyway. It's been a box office hit. (LAUGHS) So then it's very simple to understand that you shouldn't talk! The Waverly Gallery Oct 25, 2018 Jan 27, 2019 . LONERGAN: I do, yeah. You don't really choose. She died two years after she moved in with my mother and out of her apartment where she'd been for 30 years. Why? LONERGAN: I think because it was painful. It is nonetheless deeply theatrical. And then as it turned out, he wasn't able to be in it either because of his schedule. Ill admit that several times I thought shed missed a line or fluffed one, but when I went back and read the script, there was everything shed said. They had, like six projects backed up and there was a teeny window which closed. M anchester By The Sea garnered a lot of critical acclaim upon release in 2016, including two Academy Awards: Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay. Wage growth is slowing. The many layers of this serious affliction are explored in each character of the family unit. LONERGAN: Unfortunately. Like I thought, "Okay, so he'll let the kid down in various ways, three or four times." ALTSCHUL: Yeah. And it's unfortunate, 'cause people kind of hasten an end that's inevitable and doesn't have to be quite as separate. LONERGAN: They're psychoanalysts. But I didn't know what those would be. Or the locks on the doors, the gas on the stove, or just arrangements of who's gonna take so-and-so to the doctor, to the eye doctor, and that becomes a big part of your life. LONERGAN: Yeah, or even if they say you're good at something you're not good at, you think, "Oh, well maybe " It might encourage you to go in that direction a bit more. Such objections dissolve as soon as Gladys and her clan reassemble into groupings that convey both claustrophobic intimacy and tragic, unbridgeable distance. Shes talking about the end of Helens first marriage, to Daniels father, but it comes to suggest a more willful oblivion. By the end, the identities of those around her blur with those of people long dead. Mostly they were having problems with Leonardo DiCaprio's character. But this is a tragedy, even if it is a minor one, and its a tragedy familiar to anyone who has seen dementia up close. Unless it's a sensationalist story, in which case it's great. The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan conveys how families are torn apart coping with and caring for elders with dementia. But it also is sort of the idea of an attempt to do a play in some kind of documentary theatricalization, 'cause it's very literal, and the events are not written in any way as to try to compress or bend the reality to make it more like a story. My name is Stephanie.I paint under the pseudonym St. Carlson. That its Elaine May who is giving life to Gladyss war against time lends an extra power and poignancy to The Waverly Gallery, which opened on Thursday night under Lila Neugebauers fine-tuned direction. "Lucas Hedges' final monologue in The Waverly Gallery destroyed me. / CBS News. ALTSCHUL: Yes. Our Pet Policy. It percolates somehow. And I want you to really bring them to life more. 2018 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Like, you notice that after you talk they get worse. It's quite a full-time job all the time. And you kinda wanna say, "Where are you?" The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001. It is a lifeli But my other play, "The Waverly Gallery," had this great director, Lila Neugebauer. This one person's father was a professor and his mother came from Ireland. Kenneth Lonergan's 1999 drama, The Waverly Gallery, has taken quite a few hits from critics over the course of its many productions around the country, mainly for trying to cash in on fear of. Including the last lines here I don't think you can really spoil anything, and it's a published play, but avoid if you want to see it blind." Yeah, smart (LAUGH) and smart-alecky [kids]! LONERGAN: Yeah. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . When I was 5 years old I started to draw. ALTSCHUL: They're psychotherapists or psychiatrists? And we ended up casting Casey. And so you just kinda get in there and you just try to same as with your own work, you try to think of a person who feels vivid to you. Very closely. If you borrow a character from your life, you can borrow their entire biography. LONERGAN: Well, I try to recreate actual human speech as best I can. You wouldn't see anything bigger or smaller than real life, and yet if you can tell a story with a beginning, middle and an end in that aesthetic, then that's quite interesting to try to do. And I was able to write plays and do what I wanted for three years. Why were there so many troubles, if you read about it or you read some of the, you know, the lawsuit. Thus, when Gladys's deterioration escalates from eccentricity to complete deterioration, the younger generation can no longer just stay in touch. 252 W. 45th St., New York, NY. Is it a kind of a separation? LONERGAN: Oh, it just means make them better. Wisdom? 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ALTSCHUL: Just getting those kinds of performances out of actors, it only happens when you've got somebody who is an actor's director who understands what it's like on both sides. I wrote a science fiction novel when I was 11 and 12, or 12 and 13, something like that. But no word is randomly chosen here, starting with. And it just went on and on and on. But even those depend somewhat on their verisimilitude to be compelling. LONERGAN: Yeah, so I wrote the scene. LONERGAN: You know, they were having structural problems with the script. She rang the bell, I could check in. Its a tragedy of mostly good people who sometimes fail each other even when or especially when they dont want to. Gladys crams all silences with increasingly disconnected bits of autobiography and with peppy questions and catchphrases that she has probably used for decades. The Waverly is a pet-friendly community. Like, you're stuck, stuck, stuck on one word, and then there's an adjacent word that you figure out and it gives you one letter to the word you don't have. But it does also become a play, you know? Ms. May, right, portrays a gallery owner who shows work by a struggling artist (Michael Cera, left), while her grandson (Lucas Hedges) worries about her health. You're there to help them out. The Waverly Gallery, now revived on Broadway, is an early play by Kenneth Lonergan and as directed by Lila Neugebauer and upraised by Elaine May's toweringly fragile performance, it is as quietly. With her dyed hair and her yesteryear-bohemia outfits, Gladys still cuts a vibrant figure, but her mind is starting to cloud. I've always been interested in the way people talk. ALTSCHUL: Let's talk about "You Can Count On Me" and how that story developed. LONERGAN: Oh yeah. But I was there a lot. That she has clearly already lost this battle makes her no less valiant. Lucas Hedges in The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan directed by Lila Neugebauer. I don't wanna know anything about you or your life or anything." The Waverly Gallery is a play by Kenneth Lonergan. She was just the smartest person I've ever met. (LAUGHTER) It was a bit too high concept for me. [Whats new onstage and off: Sign up for our Theater Update newsletter]. Most of those facilities aren't so great. The high school that the girl goes to is based on my high school very closely. Always stylishly dressed (Ann Roth did the costumes), Ms. Mays Gladys retains her coercive hostesss charm. Its not so much a portrait as a miniature and there are moments when it doesnt seem to quite fill the theater or earn its two-hours traffic. Packer must have felt a certain frisson at taking on "The Waverly Gallery," no less than her leading actor, Annette Miller, a veteran of 22 seasons at SS & Co, who plays the role of Gladys. Like, people, their good strengths come out not in a sentimental way, but in a real inspiring way. A monologue about love, grief, joy, and a famed production's highs and lows CRITICS' PICKS. I have a film I'm trying to write. You do something, and somebody acknowledges a job well done, it gives you that extra little something. Why were the audiences drawn to that film? And it was unusual because it wasn't an assignment and I didn't generate the material, but very quickly everything in the film became, it did generate after a short time, 'cause I wasn't able to write the script any other way. I think I'm more oriented towards actors than some of the directors that I had worked with were. Shakespeare & Company, based in the Lenox, has opened its 2019 summer season with "The Waverly Gallery," staged by Tina Packer, founder of the troupe in 1978 and director of the company until 2009. Yeah. All My Sons Apr 22, 2019 Jun 30, 2019 . LONERGAN: And it makes it a story and not just a dirge. ALTSCHUL: And the gallery itself, there wasn't much going on there in the end. ALTSCHUL: So it just had to sit there. If you cast the right person, and the more you direct, the more you learn that it's casting. And Matt was gonna direct it and he was also gonna be in it. You know, you feel like there are these options and none of them lead to a good place. (LAUGHTER) Or at least step back a little bit. And I stayed there for 20 years, 28 years. She doesn't do it to make money, but it's a way to spend her time. No, they mean something else? Let's start with my childhood: I had a happy childhood thanks to my parents. So I lived off of that script. And you know, I think a lot of her impressiveness is there, and her zest for being alive and involved and all of her unique qualities are on display, I suppose. (LAUGHTER) But it's nice to have someone who's supportive, but very, very truthful with you. Just a lot of borrowing and drawing on from all sorts of places. He was arrested and I watched from a distance, afraid to let anybody know that I even knew him. First staged Off Broadway in 2000, with a very fine Eileen Heckart as Gladys, The Waverly Gallery was inspired by the final years of Mr. Lonergans own grandmother. But on the other hand, that's not what they're there for. LONERGAN: Yeah. LONERGAN: Well, they bring so much to it. So they actually delayed shooting for a couple of weeks because they needed to work on the script. You don't want them to be done once and forgotten. I rented an apartment in the back of the building she owned. I was just sitting there typing. But it is a memoir play, I guess! LONERGAN: Director really has to, you can't do anything else for at least a year. Tuesday was a tough day for "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, who tested positive for COVID-19 for the third time in a little over a year. And if you get good actors, that's great. One might think, "Oh, well, that's, you know, kind of a simple play. It doesn't make it okay when things go badly, but it is something that is beautiful that's brought out when these very difficult things happen. 2. She's really funny. I'll visit once a week or I'll--" but often you have to do that, because there's no other practical way. And my stepfather gave me the idea for "Analyze This," 'cause it was based on a real anecdote where a famous Mafioso went to one of his colleagues the only Sicilian psychoanalyst in New York at the time, (LAUGHS) who had been approached by a famous mobster who wanted to talk to him. ", Kenneth Lonergan directing Matt Damon and Anna Paquin in "Margaret. The Waverly Gallery. Productions [ edit] Writer Kenneth Lonergan's "The Waverly Gallery" is a story of family relationships and a grandmother's last years in decline. ", Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo in Kenneth Lonergan's "You Can Count on Me. The show is able to balance the painful situation with the humor her family finds in the darkest times. Character: Sister James. It was pretty clear where it was working and where it wasn't. And I have no religious faith at all, but I'm curious about people who do. And then they bought the script outright, which is unusual. I mean there's two parts. Blame the Federal Reserve. And I mean, I have a good ear for dialogue, obviously, and I have a good desultory memory for some things. You're in a terrible mood, you go outside and it's a beautiful day. Elaine May is back on a Broadway stage after more than 50 years, and making the most of it in The Waverly Gallery, Kenneth Lonergan's meticulously observed, funny and sad play about a woman's decline and its effect on her family. It's hard to get these productions up. That character's somewhat invented. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Request licence Get the Script Get an estimate A work of at least partial autobiography, this is a memory play about memory loss. How her family daughter Ellen, son-in-law Howard and grandson Daniel deals with her decline is told by the grandson. LONERGAN: Well, it gives you backup. ALTSCHUL: So, speaking of things that stood the test of time, how does "The Wonderful World of Pluto" hold up now? ALTSCHUL: So you take the script and there are specific characters that he gives you an assignment? Is The Waverly Gallery Good for Kids? But it's a play. LONERGAN: Well, or being too controlling without being in charge, because if you're gonna have a director, you have to let them direct. LONERGAN: No, no. Just you feel you do want it to stand on its own and not require your descriptions of it. LONERGAN: Yeah. Also present are what Daniel calls his clan of liberal Upper West Side atheistic Jewish intellectuals: his psychiatrist mother Ellen (Joan Allen), his psychiatrist stepfather Howard (David Cromer) and most crucially his grandmother Gladys (May), a former lawyer who now runs a Greenwich Village art gallery that never seems to sell anything. Al Roker Has An Understandable Reaction To Savannah Guthrie's Positive COVID Test. And everyone else in it is just as interested in their life as she is in her own. LONERGAN: But that's the system. LONERGAN: And that's when it's a bit tricky, if you're on the inside, to say, "Well, that's okay. The Waverly Gallery's opening monologue is so authentic, it's as if writer Kenneth Lonergan recorded the frenetic ramblings of a person slowly losing her memory for later use in his play about . The Waverly Gallery opened October 25, 2018, at the John Golden Theatre. At 86, Ms. May returns to the Broadway stage as Gladys Green in Kenneth Lonergans play. Gladys is . The action, set between 1989-1991, and staged by rising director Lila Neugebauer (The Wolves), shifts back and forth from Gladys's tiny gallery on Waverly Place to the Upper West Side apartment of her daughter, Ellen (Joan Allen, The Heidi Chronicles, as good as gold), and Ellen's husband, Howard Fine (David Cromer, Our Town, excellent).We also visit Gladys's Village apartment, next door . LONERGAN: Yeah. This feels like a good choice?". ALTSCHUL: Well, it worked out in the end in that if one wants to see your version of the film, you're a click away. So does that come with time? She ends most of her sentences with a practiced winning smile that now seems to be searching anxiously for affirmation. And none of us would budge. ALTSCHUL: I mean that's what it is about, right? And my older brother was gonna move in, but then he moved to Brazil. For whatever reason that passage wasn't actable. LONERGAN: She's a brilliant woman. You know, how did that come about? And it may never appear in the material, but you have it feeding everything that they say and do. And I'm sure she'd love that Elaine May was playing her. The show, first produced Off-Broadway in 2000, follows a grandson watching his grandmother slowly die from Alzheimer's disease. And I don't know how she does that. Daniel Day Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York. You know? My stepfather, who's still practicing, you hear him talk about his work and it's fascinating. I got a lotta money for it. LONERGAN: And that somehow got around to this brother and sister, one of whom was a religious person and the other of whom wasn't. And then I also noticed, not to be immodest, that I often had an idea about how the scene could be played out. ALTSCHUL: And it gives you confidence. LONERGAN: I have no idea. Even if initially they were making a mistake. "The Waverly Gallery" THEATER REVIEW. In "The Waverly Gallery," the young writer Daniel Reed (Lucas Hedges) is overwhelmed with guilt regarding the care for his aging and increasingly demented grandmother Gladys (Elaine May), who. I have two plays that I directed 'cause I had a real specific idea of how I wanted them to be, the whole design. And her personality is very vivid. Where did you hone that? ALTSCHUL: Do you feel that way about screenplays now? Everything you write is culled from your own experience or the experience of people you meet or see in other films or plays, and it's translated. "Yeah, I'm gonna live in grandma's building. In a shattering moment, a teary Daniel hugs his mother tight, and you know that hes wondering if his relationship with Ellen might one day mirror that of Ellens with Gladys. It's difficult, I imagine. It's funny, though, because it's still attached to the real events that inspire it. The structure builds from the inside-out. The Waverly Gallery is an insightful look into a passionate and feisty woman's final decline and the impact felt by the entire family. And there's an opposite falseness on the other end of the scale to when things are just too heavy, too miserable, too relentless, too bleak. And then it's often hard to describe how these things come about. The Waverly Gallery is a play by Kenneth Lonergan. And that's about it. "Good As . The main person who helped me was Matthew Broderick's mother, Patsy Broderick. And it gave me an entry into the screenwriting world, and I rewrote other people's scripts. LONERGAN: That was unusual, 'cause that was an assignment at first, that became my own project. LONERGAN: I don't think she'd be too happy! As a screenwriter (You Can Count on Me, Manchester by the Sea) and dramatist (This Is Our Youth, Lobby Hero), Mr. Lonergan has always portrayed human communication as an imperfect compromise. She becomes more fearful and more delusional, shedding memories and words, burdening her daughter and grandson who love her, but dont know how to help her. Daniel's crystalline monologues of recollection aside, "The Waverly Gallery" often has the ostensible waywardness of recorded conversations. No you don't. Because it's really different from not having one. And I immediately thought of the whole film in a way in my head, when I was watching that play. I sometimes wonder about that, 'cause there's often a delay between when you have an idea and you're able to write it. Or you know, it doesn't rain when you're in a bad mood. "The Waverly Gallery" is a scrupulously unmanipulative, unsentimental treatment of subject matter that is, well, inherently manipulative and sentimental. ALTSCHUL: So, you would have to say, "Mom, things have progressed here. All the cast members function beautifully as quotidian detectives, looking for the patterns in the pieces. Quote. So there was an evening about faith, whatever it meant to you. I loved that man, I would have done anything for him. (Theres a fifth character, Don, an amateur painter played by the current Lonergan go-to Michael Cera and as close as the play gets to comic relief.). ALTSCHUL: Why was that film a hard film to make in the end? If I could say in a sentence, I wouldn't be taking up three hours of anyone's time. It's not a movie that's tryin' to beat you over the head. LONERGAN: It is difficult. With its narrator Daniel (an always nuanced David Gow) recounting a familial past, The Waverly Gallery would seem to belong to the tradition sparked by Tennessee Williams with The Glass Menagerie. [66] That same year, May's film A New Leaf was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". ALTSCHUL: When did the idea kind of start saying, "I'm a play"? The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001. She might even have perceived a glimmer of her own vivacious self in that couples determined loquacity. And I thought of faith in other people, faith in other people, and the idea of putting your faith in someone who may not necessarily have earned it. Your parents had their hands full. But that doesnt stop Gladys talking, even in her sleep. LONERGAN: It's a long story. David Zinns urban set, with its vistas of the city beyond, weighs heavily on the playing area. And it's something that's kinda skipped over often times. "[1], The Waverly Gallery was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001. "The Waverly Gallery" is narrated by Gladys's grandson, Daniel, the Lonergan stand-in, who has a penchant for wry, detached sarcasm. Well, I knew that from the beginning, but the more you learn to get out of their way and shut up. LONERGAN: Not really. And I thought, "Oh, that sounds like a really good story." 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