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Fool for Love

Opening Date: Sep 15, 2015
Closing Date: Dec 13, 2015
Running Time: 01:20
Fool for Love
http://foolforlovebroadway.com/
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Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
261 W 47th St, New York, NY 10036
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Sam Shepard's play which was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in 1984 follows Eddie and May, two star-crossed lovers with a long, erratic romantic history together.

Holed up in a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert, two former lovers unpack the deep secrets and dark desires of their tangled relationship, passionately tearing each other apart. 

Beaten down by ill-fated love and a ruthless struggle for identity, can they ultimately live with, or without, each other? Led by director Daniel Aukin (Back Back Back at MTC; 4,000 Miles), Tony Award winner Nina Arianda (Venus in Fur at MTC, Born Yesterday) and Sam Rockwell (A Behanding in Spokane, The Way Way Back) bring an explosive intensity to Sam Shepard’s (Buried Child, True West) landmark myth of the new Wild West.

Fool for Love is presented in association with Williamstown Theatre Festival

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY @ 7 PM
THURSDAY thru SATURDAY @ 8 PM
WEDNESDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY @ 2 PM
BroadwayPlay - Drama
Show Notes: No Intermission
Age Guidance: 16
Audience Advisory: Wednesday 10/14 @ 8 pm

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  • Sam Rockwell has earned a reputation for bringing a whiff of weirdness and explosive emotion to his roles. He delivers the goods — and so does costar Nina Arianda — in Broadway’s combustible revival of “Fool for Love.”

    ----New York Daily News
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  • When withholding and revelation are handled as adroitly as they are in Daniel Aukin’s terrific staging for the Manhattan Theatre Club, Fool for Love acquires the force of Greek tragedy — one Greek tragedy in particular.

    ----Vulture, New York Magazine
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  • Love as a battlefield on which nobody wins has seldom been mapped as thrillingly as it is in Daniel Aukin’s definitive revival of this bruising drama from 1983. That’s in large part because as the inexorably coupled May and Eddie, Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell exude the sort of chemistry from which nuclear meltdowns are made.

    ------New York Times
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  • Sam Rockwell has earned a reputation for bringing a whiff of weirdness and explosive emotion to his roles. He delivers the goods — and so does costar Nina Arianda — in Broadway’s combustible revival of “Fool for Love.”

    ----New York Daily News
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  • Box Office

    Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri: Noon to 8 pm Wed: Noon to 8 pm (If there is a matinee, 10 am to 8 pm) Sat: 10 am to 8 pm Sun: 10 am to 7 pm

  • Parking

    Central Parking System, 257 West 47th St (Broadway and 8th Ave). Call (212) 262-9778

  • Restroom

    The restrooms are wheelchair accessible and located on the lower level and Mezzanine level.

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    An elevator is available to take you to all levels of the theatre.

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    On lower and Mezzanine levels.

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    Water fountain is accessible at 36" AFF.

  • Wheelchair Info

    8 seats available for wheelchair seating.

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