Margaret Edson

Laurie Metcalf In The Other Place: My Review

Sharr Jackson's play The Other Place seems to owe a lot to Margaret Edson's Pulitzer winning 1995 play Wit. Both works have a mature woman going through a severe medical crisis that prompts her to re-assess her life. In both cases, the woman makes glib remarks to the audience in between scenes act ... More >>

Wit: Bearing Agonies

MTC gives the Pulitzer-winning play its Broadway premiere

Cynthia Nixon In Wit: My Review

Margaret Edson's Pulitzer-winning 1995 play Wit finally makes it to Broadway in a Lynne Meadow-directed production starring Cynthia Nixon as a poetry professor named Vivian Bearing who's bearing a lot, actually. Vivian has been diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer, and as she embarks on eight ro ... More >>

Theater

Life After Wit

Director Derek Anson Jones Returns to MCC

Bearing Up