Center Stage with Trip Cullman, Halley Feiffer & Jason Butler Harner
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City
Written by Halley Feiffer
Directed by Trip Cullman
Featuring Halley Feiffer, Jason Butler Harner, Eileen T'Kaye & JoBeth Williams
September 5 - October 8, 2017
Gil Cates Theater at the Geffen Playhouse
Tickets and more at geffenplayhouse.org
Accomplished playwright and actor Halley Feiffer brings her sardonic, hilarious and tender play about connection in a time of loss to the Geffen Playhouse with the West Coast Premeire of "A Funny Thing Happened...". This New York Times Critics' Pick tells the story of a struggling young stand-up comic (Feiffer) and a wealthy middle-aged divorcée (Jason Butler Harner) cooped up in a Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital room shared by their cancer-stricken mothers (Eileeen T'Kaye and JoBeth Williams). Forced to confront their relationships with their respective mothers, Karla and Don cope with their new reality by making some of the world's most innappropriate jokes. Feiffer's unique and insightful comedy demonstrates how shared experiences create unexpected kinship, and how comedy and tragedy often operate in unsettling tandem.
