How many Steves does it take to screw up a marriage? Steven and Stephen are a long-term couple with an 8-year-old son and intimacy issues. Steven’s old friend Matt, and Matt’s partner, Brian, are pushing the boundaries of fidelity with (among others) their trainer, Steve. When the two couples and their lesbian sidekick, Carrie, meet to celebrate Steven’s 47th birthday at a nice Manhattan restaurant, it isn’t long before the betrayals spill and the table settings end up on the floor — but not to worry. There to clean up the mess is young Argentine waiter-slash-dancer Esteban, who soon joins this recombinant ménage. If it’s hard to keep all of the Steve-variants straight, well, you don’t have to; none of them is.There’s another Steve, too, hovering godlike above the ones directly referenced in Mark Gerrard’s sad and hilarious — sadlarious? — new play, naturally...
- 11/19/2015
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
The New Group presents the world premiere of Steve, a new play by Mark Gerrard. Directed by Cynthia Nixon, this production features Ashlie Atkinson and Francisco Pryor Garat, and as announced, Mario Cantone, Jerry Dixon,Malcolm Gets and Matt McGrath. A limited Off-Broadway engagement plays now through December 27 at The Pershing Square Signature Center, with Opening Night set for tonight, November 18. Let's see what the critic had to say...
- 11/19/2015
- by Review Roundups
- BroadwayWorld.com
Right-wingers like Mike Huckabee think same-sex marriage is the end of civilization. Actually, it’s only the beginning of some very tedious playwriting. Peter Parnell’s “Dada Woof Papa Hot” opened earlier this month at the Lincoln Center Theater in New York, followed by Mark Gerrard’s new comedy about married gay men, “Steve,” a New Group presentation that opened Wednesday at the Pershing Square Signature Center. If aliens visited Gotham and saw these two plays back-to-back, they’d think homosexuals are called dreary, not gay. Also Read: 'Dada Woof Papa Hot' Theater Review: John Benjamin Hickey Grapples With New Kind of Marriage For starters,...
- 11/19/2015
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
The New Group will present the world premiere of Steve, a new play by Mark Gerrard. Directed by Cynthia Nixon, this production features Ashlie Atkinson and Francisco Pryor Garat, and as announced, Mario Cantone, Jerry Dixon, Malcolm Gets and Matt McGrath. A limited Off-Broadway engagement plays November 3 - December 27 at The Pershing Square Signature Center TheRomulus Linney Courtyard Theatre, 480 West 42nd Street, with Official Opening Night set for Wednesday, November 18.
- 10/16/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
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