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"Dinner With Friends" is a 1999 Pulitzer Prize winning play witten by Donald Margulies. It premiered at the 1998 Humana Festival of New American Plays and opened Off-Broadway in New York on November 4, 1999. [1] 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918. ...
Donald Margulies is an American playwright who authored plays including Pulitzer Prize winning Dinner with Friends and Collected Stories. ...
The internationally renowned Humana Festival of New American Plays celebrates the contemporary American playwright. ...
Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ...
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November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining. ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
Plot summary
Gabe and Karen, a happily married middle-aged couple, have been friends with Tom and Beth, another married couple, for many years. In fact, it was Gabe and Karen who fixed up their friends in the first place. While having dinner at Gabe and Karen's home one night, Beth tearfully reveals that she is getting a divorce from Tom, who has been unfaithful.
Tom, who had been away on business, finds out that Beth has told their friends about the looming divorce, and hastens to Gabe and Karen's home. Tom and Beth had planned to tell their friends about their breakup together, but Tom now believes that Beth has unfairly presented herself as the wronged party, and feels he must present his own side of the story.
Over the course of the play, we see both couples at different ages and stages of their lives, and we witness the effects of Tom and Beth's breakup on Gabe and Karen, who first feel compelled to choose sides, and then begin to question the strength of their own seemingly tranquil marriage.
Original Off-Broadway cast Julie White is an American actress. ...
Kevin Kilner (born May 3, 1958 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a television and film actor. ...
Awards and nominations Aside from winning the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the play also received the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, the Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, and a Drama Desk Award nomination.
Film adaptation The play was adapted into a 2001 TV movie starring Dennis Quaid as Gabe, Andie MacDowell as Karen, Greg Kinnear as Tom, and Toni Collette as Beth. It was nominated for two Emmys, including Outstanding Made for Television Movie. [2] 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Dennis Quaid in 1991 Dennis William Quaid (born April 9, 1954) is an American actor. ...
Rosalie Anderson Andie MacDowell (born April 21, 1958 in Gaffney, South Carolina) is an American actress and former fashion model. ...
Greg Kinnear (born June 17, 1963 in Logansport, Indiana) is an Academy Award nominated American actor. ...
Toni Collette promoting In Her Shoes Antonia Collette (born November 1, 1972) is an Academy award-nominated Australian actress. ...
An Emmy Award. ...
External links - Critic's Notebook; A Validation of Off Broadway: Review at NY Times
References - ^ http://www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s2453 ITDb page on Dinner With Friends]
- ^ IMDB list of Awards for Dinner With Friends
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