![]() ![]() There were actors in attendance, thankfully-it’s not healthy for so many writers to be left alone in one room. But, Broadway? No! This is not going to happen!” ![]() You might be very lucky if that made BAM. “I think for any writer if you say, ‘Oh, I’m writing a play for one actress and it has a Biblical subject,’ then someone would say, ‘Oh, great. “A Broadway show was where the musicals go,” he said, remembering his first notions of the Great White Way as a kid growing up in Enniscorthy, Ireland. Colm Tóibín, the play’s author, was doing some marveling, anyway. But if you had walked into Sardi’s last night not knowing any better, you might have thought you’d walked into a one-night literary festival, the room host to a herd of novelists, short-story writers, and critics, many of them marveling that the New Testament’s lead female role herself was the star of a Broadway play. Yes, it was a Broadway opening, The Testament of Mary, starring Fiona Shaw as Mary the mother of Jesus, at the Walter Kerr Theatre. ![]()
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