Time Stands Still

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TIME STANDS STILL

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Cititour.com Review
With so much flashy fare on Broadway, it's easy to miss Time Stands Still, Donald Margulies' engrossing drama about a risk-taking couple trying to navigate the conflicting directions of their careers and personal lives. But it would be a shame to miss it. Few playwrights can chronicle the intimacies and intricacies of relationships as deftly and with as much unsentimental emotion as this Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Add to the picture director Daniel Sullivan and the accomplished quartet of Laura Linney, Brian d'Arcy James, Eric Bogosian and Christina Ricci, and you have a production that's gotten even stronger in its return engagement. (Its initial Broadway run was January through March of 2010.)

Linney plays Sarah Goodwin, a photojournalist whose lust for danger nearly got her killed during an assignment in the Middle East. She returns to New York and her troubled relationship with longtime boyfriend James Dodd (James), a reporter whose own wanderlust is dissipating in favor of a more stable home life. He's looking for something similar to what their editor, Richard (Bogosian), has with his pregnant and much younger new girlfriend (Ricci, the only newcomer to the cast, who replaces Alicia Silverstone).

It's a fairly straightforward premise. What distinguishes it are Margulies' compelling characters, who are precisely and authentically rendered. They're never simplified stock figures – playwright, director and actors imbue them with all the nuance of full-bodied, flawed human beings, especially Linney, whose emotionally restrained character never seems shrewish. Are they making the right choices? Margulies wisely removes himself from the debate, showing us instead that they're doing the best they can.

By Diane Snyder


Visit the Site
http://www.timestandsstillonbroadway.com

Cast
Laura Linney, Brian d'Arcy James, Eric Bogosian, Christina Ricci

Open/Close Dates
Opening 9/23/2010
Closing 1/30/2011

Box Office
212-239-6200

Theatre Info
James Earl Jones Theatre
138 West 48th Street
New York, NY 10036
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