
The Grand Manner
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A.R. Gurney’s 'The Grand Manner' arrived Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in 2010, standing as an elegant, deeply moving, and autobiographical comedy-drama. Set in 1948, the heart-filled narrative charts a sensitive, nineteen-year-old theater-obsessed college student (a transparent portrait of a young Gurney) who travels to Manhattan to fulfill a childhood dream: seeing the legendary stage titan Katharine Cornell perform in Shakespeare's *Antony and Cleopatra*, launching an unexpected backstage encounter that exposes her private humanity. Directed by Mark Lamos, the production starred Kate Burton, Boyd Gaines, and Bobby Steggert.

