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(Broadway at the Theatre). Tony Award winners and co-star in 's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Gin Game. directs. "Weller Martin (James Earl Jones) and Fonsia Dorsey (Cicely Tyson) meet on the porch of their nursing home and strike up a friendship, with Weller teaching Fonsia how to play gin rummy," according to press notes. "As they play, they share stories about the lives they led in the outside world. But when Fonsia wins every hand, Weller becomes increasingly frustrated, until their gin games and conversations become a battleground, with each player exposing the other鈥檚 failures, disappointments and insecurities." Visit .
The Flick (Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre). 's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama The Flick is a study of boredom, yearning and dysfunction in a crew of New England movie-house workers. The play won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. directs the four-person play that played an extended Off-Broadway world premiere at in 2013. Returning for the production were cast members Alex Hanna, Louisa Krause, Matthew Maher and Aaron Clifton Moten. Here's how the play is billed: "In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35 millimeter film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen. With keen insight and a finely-tuned comic eye, The Flick is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world." Visit .
These Paper Bullets! (Off-Broadway at the Linda Gross Theatre). The staging of These Paper Bullets! is a modish twist on Much Ado About Nothing written by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Emmy Award-nominated writer Rolin Jones with songs by frontman . Helmed by Jackson Gay, the cast includes , , , Greg Stuhr, , , Christopher Geary, Brad Heberlee, Tony Manna, Adam O'Byrne and Ariana Venturi. New additions include , Andrew Musselman, Liz Wisan and . "Meet the Quartos: Ben, Claude, Balth, and Pedro," state press notes. "Can these fab four from Liverpool find true love in London and cut an album in seven nights? A modish rip-off of Much Ado About Nothing with a serious backbeat." Visit聽.听
