It is often said that Gurney writes about a dying breed.
Clay Johnson offered this comment, out of an A. R. Gurney play, about John Kerry as a young man: "For what it's worth, I know he wasn't popular.
Mr. Steggert, a 2010 Tony nominee for "Ragtime," recently sat with Mr. Gurney to talk about "The Grand Manner," the part of Pete and their respective careers.
A revival of A. R. Gurney's play about a writer returning home to ask his parents for money to produce a play that he has written about them.
In the original, while Snyder is jolted into eternity others stand casually about, and a gurney awaits the corpse.
On the smaller Nikos Stage is the world premiere of A.R. Gurney's "Big Bill," about the tennis player William Tilden, July 2 to 13, and readings of four Chekhov plays, with Blythe Danner, Olympia Dukakis and George Morfogen, Aug. 12 to 16.
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We sincerely believe, like Mr. Gurney, that the Tony Awards are about excellence in the Broadway theater and that surely they would survive in his proposed scenario of an "untelevised, congenial gathering of theater folk".
SIGOURNEY WEAVER AND JOHN LITHGOW IN 'MRS. FARNSWORTH' -- In a celebrity-worshiping season, these boldface names stole the limelight from Broadway with gloriously matched performances as a WASP couple who are more than the sum of their social accouterments in A. R. Gurney's sharp, stealthy comedy about life in the age of George W. Bush.
