Table Settings
Written & Directed by James Lapine
Table Settings is a wildly funny comedy is about three generations of a Jewish family. All the fast-paced action takes place around an all-purpose dining table; sometimes a restaurant table, and other times the dining table of a Jewish mother to end all Jewish mothers. Other characters include an exceedingly irreverent younger son, his martini-swilling older brother who is married to a shiksa, and the older brother's two kids. Table Settings, a highly acclaimed and long-running Off Broadway success, is an hysterical look at an American family.
Table Settings (Workshop)
Written & Directed by James Lapine
Playwrights Horizons
March 21, 1979 - April 1, 1979
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James Lapine, Playwright
James Lapine, Director
Playwrights Horizons, Producer
Richard Goodwin, Set Designer
Robert Wojewodski, Costume Designer
Annie Wrightson, Lighting Designer
Michael Spellman, Sound Designer
Robert Moss, Managing Director
André Bishop, Artistic Director
Kevin Mangan, Stage Manager
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David Marshall Grant: Younger Son
Clayton Berry: Older Son
Chris Weatherhead: Wife
Marta Kober: Granddaughter
Frances Chaney: Mother
Carlo Imperato: Grandson
Carolyn Hurlburt: Girlfriend
Paul Sparer: Voiceover
Table Settings (Off-Broadway)
Written & Directed by James Lapine
Playwrights Horizons
January 14, 1980 - August 31, 1980
Photos by Martha Swope
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James Lapine, Playwright
James Lapine, Director
Stephen Graham, Producer
Playwrights Horizons, Producer
Luis Sanjurjo, Producer
Joan Stein, Producer
Heidi Landesman, Set Designer
Robert Wojewodski, Costume Designer
Beverly Emmons, Lighting Designer
Albert Poland, General Manager
Barbara Carroll, Press Representative
David Powers, Press Representative
Michael Spellman, Production Stage Manager
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Mark Blum: Younger Son
Frances Chaney: Mother
Eric Gurry: Grandson
Carolyn Hurlburt: Girlfriend
Marta Kober: Granddaughter
Paul Sparer: Voice Over
Brent Spiner: Older Son
Chris Weatherhead: Wife
Understudies:
Beverly Barbieri: Wife/ Granddaughter/ Girlfriend
Richard Bay: Younger Son/ Older Son
Benjamin Grossman: Grandson
Charlotte Jones: Mother
Reviews & Features
“Last season, Mr. Lapine gave us an imaginative translation onto the stage of Gertrude Stein's happily fragmented poem Photograph. It was an abstract, disciplined work, but the playfulness kept spilling through. Table Settings, which is being performed in a workshop version at Playwrights Horizons, is a series of basically naturalistic sketches set out in a series of skewed rhythms and ellipses that give them an absurd cast. The skits are fragments from the life of a typical, comfortably placed and endlessly displaced middle‐class family.