This deeply moving, insightful piece is about connection, memories, and the small moments that can change the course of our lives. Over one fateful summer, an unlikely friendship develops between Diana, a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom, and Alice, a free-spirited yet naive young housewife. As the Bicentennial is celebrated across the country, these two young women in Ohio navigate motherhood, ambition, and intimacy, and help each other discover their own independence. Directing is Tony winner Daniel Sullivan.
Opposites attract – and not only when it comes to romance, but friendships as well. That’s the thesis of Summer, 1976, a pleasant wisp of a play with an A-list pedigree that has all the dramatic heft of catching a few rays.
If “Summer, 1976” feels too comfortable to be fashionable, it’s sharply observant, too, and subtly, insistently feminist - more than the wisp of a two-hander that it might first appear to be. Auburn, who at 53 was about Holly and Gretchen’s age during the Bicentennial, has once again sown a script with riches for actors. Linney and Hecht mine them for all they’re worth.
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2023 | Broadway |
Manhattan Theatre Club World Premiere Broadway Production Broadway |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2023 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Laura Linney |
2023 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Production of a Play | Summer, 1976 |
2023 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Broadway Play | Summer, 1976 |
2023 | Tony Awards | Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Jessica Hecht |
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