“I was like 35 years old, and I was in Poughkeepsie,” Shanley said in a phone interview during a rehearsal break last month.
“I went in to do my laundry, and after a couple of questions, I realized that they would do it for me, fold it and give it back to me.
Opening on Wednesday at New York City Center, it is the 13th play the playwright has premiered with the Manhattan Theater Club.
“There’s an incredible flair, intelligence, grace and humor to his work,” said Lynne Meadow, the theater company’s artistic director.
Most of all, she added, “he writes with such humanity, and so personally.”
Persons:
John Patrick Shanley, “ Danny, “, ” Shanley, ’, ”, Lynne Meadow
Organizations:
New York City Center, Manhattan Theater
Locations:
Poughkeepsie, Brooklyn