Good news for all of us starved for live theater.
The Manhattan Theatre Club is extending its FREE streaming version of Three Days of Rain, a romantic comedy starring Patricia Clarkson, John Slattery and Bradley Whitford.
The Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, by Richard Greenberg, now is available for streaming until March 25.
Set in New York, Three Days of Rain follows siblings Nan and Walker reconnecting with their childhood friend Pip when they come home to settle their father’s estate. The discovery of a diary brings us back in time to their parents’ lives in the 1960s and to the truth of the legacy that connects the generations.
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CAST
Patricia Clarkson is an Academy Award Nominated, Emmy and Golden Globe Winning actress best known for starring in films such as “The Station Agent,” “The Green Mile,” “Far from Heaven,” “High Art,” “Good Night, and Good Luck,” “Easy A,” “Cairo Time” and “Pieces of April.”
Her recent television work includes a leading role in HBO’s Sharp Objects, for which she won Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice awards for Best Supporting Actress, and Netflix’s House of Cards.
Her stage work includes the highly acclaimed productions of “The Elephant Man” alongside Bradley Cooper, and “A Streetcar named Desire” in the leading role of Blanche DuBois.
John Slattery received four Emmy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal of Roger Sterling on the critically acclaimed cable series “Mad Men.” He also directed several episodes of “Mad Men,” as well as Judd Apatow’s “LOVE” and the feature God’s Pocket, which premiered at Sundance in 2014.
Slattery starred in the feature film Spotlight. Previous feature film credits include Ant Man, The Adjustment Bureau, Iron Man 2, Bluebird, Flags of our Fathers, Charlie Wilson’s War, Mona Lisa Smile, The Station Agent, and Traffic.
He is recognizable from numerous television series such as “Documentary Now,” “Arrested Development,” “Sex and the City,” “Veep” and “K Street.” He also earned a Critics’ Choice Award nomination for Best Guest Actor, for his role in “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp.”
On Broadway, Slattery appeared in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole, the fall 2000 revival of Betrayal, Neil Simon’s Laughter on the 23rd Floor, and The Front Page, opposite Nathan Lane.
Most recently, Slattery was seen as Paul Leblanc in the Fox mini-series “NEXT” and opposite Cate Blanchett in the FX mini-series “Mrs. America.”
Bradley Whitford gained fame as Josh Lyman on “The West Wing” (Emmy Award; two Golden Globe nominations). MTC: Three Days of Rain; Curse of the Starving Class.
He has a long list of other theater credits, too.
Other theater: Boeing, Boeing and A Few Good Man (Broadway), Measure for Measure (Lincoln Center), Coriolanus (Folger Shakespeare Theatre). Film: Sergio; Three Christs; Songbird; The Last Full Measure; Call of the Wild; tick, tick… BOOM! (dir. Lin-Manuel Miranda); The Unicorn Store; Godzilla: King of the Monsters; Phil; Destroyer; The Darkest Minds; A Happening of Monumental Proportions; Steven Spielberg’s The Post; Get Out; Megan Leavey; Other People; All The Way; I Saw The Light; Saving Mr. Banks; The Cabin in the Woods; An American Crime; The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants; Little Manhattan; Kate & Leopold; The Muse; Bicentennial Man; Scent of a Woman; A Perfect World; Philadelphia; The Client; My Life; Red Corner; Presumed Innocent and My Fellow Americans. TV: “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Emmy Award), “Perfect Harmony,” “Valley of the Boom,” “Flack,” “Transparent” (Emmy Award; Television Critics’ Choice Award), “Years of Living Dangerously,” “Chicago Justice,” “Mom,” “Better Things,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Happyish,” “Trophy Wife,” “The Good Guys,” “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” “ER,” “The X-Files,” and “NYPD Blue.”
ABOUT THE WRITER
Richard Greenberg is the author of The Babylon Line, Our Mother’s Brief Affair, The Assembled Parties (Tony, Drama Desk nominations), Take Me Out (Tony Award for Best Play, Drama Desk Award, NY Drama Critics Circle Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Lucille Lortel Award), The House in Town, The Violet Hour, The Dazzle (Outer Critics Circle Award), Everett Beekin, Three Days of Rain (L.A. Drama Critics Award, Pulitzer finalist), The American Plan, and many other plays.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Evan Yionoulis has directed new plays and classics in New York, across the country, and internationally. She opened Manhattan Theatre Club’s Biltmore Theatre with Richard Greenberg’s The Violet Hour, directed his Everett Beekin at Lincoln Center Theatre and received an Obie Award for her direction of his Three Days of Rain at Manhattan Theatre Club, having directed their premieres at South Coast Repertory.
Other critically acclaimed productions include Adrienne Kennedy’s He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Ohio State Murders (Lortel Award for Best Revival) at Theatre for a New Audience and numerous productions at Yale Repertory Theatre where she was a resident director for twenty years.
She serves as president of the executive board of SDC, the labor union representing stage directors and choreographers, and is the Richard Rodgers Dean and Director of the Drama Division at Juilliard.
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