Event Date and Time:
April 16, 2011 – April 23, 2011
Apr 16-23 @ 8pm Apr 23 @ 2pm
Location:
Abe Burrows Theatre
721 Broadway, 1st Floor
New York, NY
By George S. Kauffman & Edna Ferber
George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's 1932 comedy Dinner at Eight celebrates (and satirizes) the lives of the rich and stylish during the Great Depression, but it also conveys darker currents that ran through the upper strata of New York society of that era, as they do today. While Mrs. Jordan prepares, with an increasing sense of urgency, a glorious dinner celebration for a pair of titled Brits, she is unaware that her husband's business—and health—are failing. The bubble of their tenuous existence may burst at any moment, but Mrs. Jordan plows ahead with her party plans and dreams of climbing the social ladder. The New York Times critic, Brooks Atkinson, wrote that the original production was "…extraordinarily engrossing," and that Mrs. Jordan’s hidden human anguish, which "…touches her vitally and gives her guests’ strange relationships, which they have neither the time nor the ability to comprehend."
