White's Lies

White's Lies
Written by Ben Andron
Characters Joe White
Alan
Mrs. White
Michelle
Barbara
Date premiered Previews began April 12, 2010 (2010-04-12)
Official opening May 6, 2010 (2010-05-06)
Place premiered New World Stages, New York City
Official site

White's Lies is a play written by Ben Andron.

The play began preview showings off-Broadway on April 12, 2010 and officially opened on May 6, 2010. Initial reviews were mixed;[1] the New York Times called it a "crass, charmless vehicle" that "plays like an episode of How I Met Your Mother that would be killed in the writers’ room."[2] while Entertainment Weekly gave it a C rating and said it was "the other kind of bad play — the one that's so ridiculous that you can't help giggling at the gaping, craterlike holes in the story and the cliché-spouting characters running around Manhattan in incredibly fabulous, incredibly impractical, incredibly expensive shoes."[3]

The show closed on June 13, 2010 after 26 previews and 46 regular performances.[1]

Cast members from the original production. From left: From left: Christy Carlson Romano, Jimmy Ray Bennett, Peter Scolari, Tuc Watkins, Rena Strober and Andrea Grano

Synopsis

Some guys are scared stiff at the prospect of settling down, getting married, having kids...and Joe White is no exception. He’s a divorce lawyer, representing one of his many ex-girlfriends, and above all else, he’s a bachelor who wouldn’t have it any other way. So when his mother desperately wants him to start a family, he’ll do the next best thing: make one up. What could go wrong?[4]

Original cast

References

  1. 1 2 "New Comedy White's Lies to Close June 13". playbill.com. Retrieved 2010-07-08.
  2. ↑ David Rooney (2010-05-11). "Theater Review - 'White's Lies' - At New World Stages, a Scramble to Produce a Grandchild". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-07-08.
  3. ↑ Melissa Rose Bernardo (2010-05-06). "White's Lies". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2010-07-08.
  4. ↑ "About the Show". whitesliesonstage.com. Retrieved 2010-07-08.
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