The Flick to play Barrow Street Theater this Fall

[PlayItAgain]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 6:04pm

According to the New York Times producer Scott Rudin will be bringing the now Pulitzer winning play The Flick back to NYC this fall at The Barrow Street Theater. Dates and casting are still being worked out but according to Ms Baker the hope is for the entire Playwrites Horizons cast to return. Jonathan Tolins "Buyer and Cellar" is currently at Barrow street with tickets on sale until early August, so barring that folding early expect a September start.




After Pulitzer Win, The Flick will Return To NYC Updated On: 4/14/14 at 06:04 PM

[Simon Damon]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 6:15pm

Broadway ???

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 6:19pm

Good! I missed it in its first run and am excited to see what the fuss was all about.

[PlayItAgain]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 6:19pm

Barrow Street is off-broadway, but considering Rudin is at the helm I wouldnt be surprised if thats in the cards later on.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 6:24pm

Sometimes I think Rubin produces just for the love of putting material he thinks is good out there. No one tries to run something off-Broadway in hope of a profit. He also produced RED LIGHT WINTER a few years ago off-Broadway and, I'm willing to wager, at a loss. I doubt this is eyeing a Broadway run.

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 7/28/14 at 2:48pm

So, I notice that the Barrow Street Theater website has programming listed through the end of December....Does that mean this production is no longer happening? Or is it moving to another space?

[nybound66]

Posted: 8/8/14 at 12:39am

Anyone heard any more buzz lately for a fall remount?

[billyelliotfan123]

Posted: 11/30/14 at 4:01pm

Is this happening?

[Fantod]

Posted: 11/30/14 at 4:24pm

God I hope not for the audience's sake

[LightsOut90]

Posted: 11/30/14 at 4:32pm

looking like late february, early march.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 12/1/14 at 1:23pm

LightsOut, that's impossible. They have a booking through the end of March.

http://www.barrowstreettheatre.com/index.asp
EVERY BRILLIANT THING
12/6/14 – 3/29/15

I assumed it wasn't happening anymore.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 12/1/14 at 1:30pm

Yes, I, with a very heavy heart, assumed the same thing.

[dreaming]

Posted: 12/1/14 at 1:33pm

Maybe it'll come to Broadway?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/1/14 at 2:11pm

Fantod, you're too damn young to be so damn old.

[inception]

Posted: 12/1/14 at 8:25pm

^
I always think the same thing.

Personally I think it's an ok, even amusing, play on the page but I'm not sure if I could have sat through a 3 hour performance of a half hour's material. Also couldn't understand how it won the Pulitzer, other than it being a very NY centric award that they wanted to give to a Sam Gold production and they figured that it was less controversial than Fun Home.

[After Eight]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 4:05am

^

Perhaps you recall that when this play was in previews, members of the audience were walking out angrily, and voiced their dissatisfaction in no uncertain terms.

Naturally, the creators of this opus refused to budge a millimeter. Imagine, those impossibly stupid and obtuse audiences, unable to appreciate the genius of Annie Baker! Why, the very nerve of them!

The fact that the audiences were absolutely right was entirely irrelevant.

And theatre snobs, critics, and award givers would show them all just who's boss, for that crew most definitely doesn't take kindly to those who refuse to bow and scrape cravenly before their darlings.

And so, predictably, the play received raves, and a Pulitzer Prize could be seen a mile away.

Well, that sure put the upstarts ---- the poor saps who actually pay the freight --- in their place!

All to the detriment of that other rank critics' darling, Fun Home. Poor thing. It had the great misfortune to open the same year as this stinker. If only those audiences at The Flick had acquiesced meekly to the boring tripe force-fed them for three interminable hours, and had not raised such a stink! Then Fun Home would have had a Pulitzer as well to add to its heaping stack of undeserved laurels.

Updated On: 12/2/14 at 04:05 AM

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 7:47am

What about all the people who loved it? Does their opinion count for nothing?

[Ado Annie D'Ysquith]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 9:49am

I envy Annie Baker. As a playwright, to see a fellow lady win a Pulitzer Prize for drama is very inspiring...and a bit envy-inducing because I can't come up with an idea like The Flick that ends up working. Sigh.

[Kad]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 10:02am

"Also couldn't understand how it won the Pulitzer, other than it being a very NY centric award that they wanted to give to a Sam Gold production..."

Why would the Pulitzer committee want to award a play based on the director of its original production?

[inception]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 1:34pm

When you look at who was on the committee, it is pretty obvious that it was friends giving the award to a buddy

[Kad]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 1:42pm

But the committee doesn't base its decisions on productions, only the work itself. Sam Gold doesn't receive any honor or distinction for Annie Baker's play having won.

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 1/6/15 at 4:07pm

Delighted to see this is actually happening.
Pulitzer Winner The Flick Will Return Off-Broadway With Original Cast

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 1/6/15 at 4:21pm

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK yes! I was so convinced this wasn't going to happen.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 1/6/15 at 4:24pm

Yeah, Gold doesn't get a kick back for it.

And I'm excited to see this controversial piece!

[atuomala]

Posted: 1/11/15 at 1:36am

I personally liked the concept of the play. It's very relevant to what's taking place in film today and the transition from reel to digital. However, this play did NOT need to be 3 hours long. I saw the first preview performance at Playwrights Horizons and all anyone was talking about afterwards was how ridiculously long it was and the time that was wasted sitting and watching someone do nothing but stage business for ten minutes at a time.