If you’re ever tempted to offer playwright Theresa Rebeck an idea for a new play, maybe hold off. She has quite enough of those as it is. This fall, New York City has become Rebeck’s playwriting playground. She's directing her own work “Dig” off-Broadway. And her play “I Need That” is landing on Broadway starring Danny DeVito and his daughter Lucy.
FILE - Playwright Theresa Rebeck attends the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 12th Annual Monte Cristo Awards in New York on April 16, 2012. Rebeck will direct her own work “Dig” at 59E59 Theaters and her “I Need That” is landing on Broadway starring Danny DeVito and his daughter, Lucy. This image released by Polk PR shows, from left, Ray Anthony Thomas, Lucy DeVito, and Danny DeVito during a rehearsal for Theresa Rebeck’s play “I Need That.
“Dig” opened just before rehearsals began in earnest for “I Need That” a dozen blocks away, and Rebeck was shuttling between the two shows. “There’s always a sort of muscularity to the storytelling,” she says. “More and more I’m overlapping comedy with tragedy, but most of my plays are comedies. And I think there’s also a sound to the language that is recognizable.”for NBC, is the kind of playwright who writes for actors, and she was in her element giving notes to the cast of “Dig” before a recent performance.
“Flowers is better,” she says after the note session. “It’s great not to be precious about your stuff, to just go, ’OK, I was wrong about that. Do it this other way.’ I have no idea why ‘flowers’ is a funnier word.”and Bill Pullman last year in London’s West End, and her play “Downstairs,” starring Tim Daly and Tyne Daly, premiering off-Broadway in 2018. Her play “Omnium Gatherum” was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
She marinates in ideas. “I Need That,” which is about a father who is a hoarder and his daughter trying to save him, was partly triggered by her own experience moving her aging parents and by her thoughts on clutter.
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