It's Only A Play

It’s the opening night of The Golden Egg on Broadway, and the wealthy producer is throwing a lavish party in her lavish Manhattan townhouse. Downstairs the celebrities are pouring in, but the real action is upstairs where a group of insiders have staked themselves out in the producer’s bedroom, waiting for the reviews to come in. Included are the excitable young author; the brilliant but unstable director; the pill-popping leading lady; and the playwright’s best friend, an egotistical but insecure comic actor. Also present are a fawning, hypocritical drama critic; a would-be singer working as a part-time servant; and a hard-boiled lady taxi driver who has seen it all, many times over. The good-natured bonhomie with which the evening begins grows steadily nastier—and funnier—as the reviews (all bad) come in, and those assembled seek desperately to pin the blame on each other.

Presented by Theatre Tallahassee.  All Theatre Tallahassee shows run for three weekends and open on a Thursday night at 8 pm and run Friday and Saturday nights at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm. It’s Only A Play runs November 2-19 2017.