Tacoma little theatre4/4/2023 Streamlined to only use 6 actors (two of whom double as several subsidiary characters) in a bothersome one-set format, TLT might have been better off doing this much loved material as a live staged reading.ĭirector Blake R. Brooks who wrote and directed the 5 time Oscar winning1983 film which won star Shirley MacLaine her long overdue Oscar. The play was obviously designed with an eye on the budget with a star-lady headliner to rake in bucks (initially done as a West-End/UK tour with DALLAS star Linda Gray and revised for off-Broadway where starring an ill-suited Molly Ringwald in 2016). The fact of the matter is, that this TERMS OF ENDEARMENT in Dan Gordon’s stage adaptation is at best a CliffsNotes version of Larry McMurtry’s 1975 Pulitzer Prize winning novel. On one hand I am so happy to applaud Tacoma Little Theatre’s return to live theatre (and its vital hard-stance on masks and immunization proof being required upon entry) that I hoped this review could be an unconditional love letter. Now through Septemat Tacoma Little Theatre in Tacoma. Brown as Garrett, Derek Mesford as Flap, Danielle Locken as Patsy Clark/Doris/Nurse, Jay Lurvey as Doctor Maise. With Stephanie Leeper as Aurora, Anastazja Bury-Quinn as Emma, Scott C. Photo: Dennis K Photography Review: TERMS OF ENDEARMENT adapted by Dan Gordon based on the novel by Larry McMurtry and the screenplay by James L. Stephanie Leeper as Aurora Greenway and Ana Bury-Quinn as Emma Greenway in Tacoma Little Theatre’s production of TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, onstage through September 26, 2021.
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