video excerpts of the productions of GREENWAY Arts Alliance
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ORPHANS - AVERY SPECIAL EVENT AT THE GREENWAY COURT THEATRE
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| JESSE EISENBERG AND AL PACINO |
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| SHAWN HATOSY |
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PHOTOS BY VICTORIA BELLOCQ
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Al Pacino starred in the Los Angeles workshop production of
Lyle Kessler's Orphans at the Greenway Court Theatre. The production will
next head to New York later this year.
Shawn Hatosy plays Treat with Jesse Eisenberg as Phillip.
Orphans owes its stature to a production at the then-fledgling Steppenwolf
Theatre in Chicago, although it captured the Drama-Logue Award when it
premiered at Los Angeles' Matrix Theatre in 1983. The Steppenwolf staging
featured John Mahoney as Harold, and Terry Kinney and Kevin Anderson as
Treat and Phillip with Gary Sinise directing the play. Orphans also had
productions in New York (though not on Broadway) and London, and a 1987
film starred Anderson, Albert Finney and Matthew Modine. Kessler is a
playwright-actor who also wrote The Watering Place, Possessions, and
Robbers.
Film legend Pacino won two Tonys for Best Actor in a Play: for his 1969
Broadway debut in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?, and for his performance in
the 1977 revival of The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. He has also acted
on Broadway in Camino Real, Richard III (the inspiration for his film
Looking for Richard), Chinese Coffee, American Buffalo, and Hughie (which
he also directed).
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