Stockard Channing
At the center of the impending maelstrom is matriarch Rita Lyons (the fabulous Linda Lavin), sitting at the hospital bedside of her husband, Ben (Dick Latessa), soon to die from cancer. Rita blithely glances through an issue of House Beautiful, commenting ...

Nicky Silver
Broadway stars Nina Arianda, Christian Borle, Norbert Leo Butz, Rosemary Harris, Jeremy Jordan, Christine Lahti, Linda Lavin, Norm Lewis, Judith Light, Audra McDonald, Cynthia Nixon, and Blair Underwood served as honorary co-chairs for the ...

Tony Award
Playwright Nicky Silver explores a theme that has been played out before, but this time and in this piece the theme unfolds in a shocking black humor kind of way, with Linda Lavin as Rita delivering lines in a deadpan, downright hilarious manner.

Theater Review: The Lyons
In honor of Mother's Day, a look at the matriarchs from the New York plays Tribes, Other Desert Cities, Hurt Village, Russian Transport and The Lyons. Nicky Silver, Stockard Channing, Linda Lavin, Erika Sheffer, Katori Hall and more muse on moms. "You just can't get away from Mom," says Mare

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Both lines are delivered by Linda Lavin, who plays Rita Lyons a mother, of course. Talk about your related themes: motherhood and food. Certainly food sounds like an integral part of Silver's life, too. A self-described former chubby kid ...

Dysfunctional family on Broadway: No lyin'
Both lines are delivered by Linda Lavin, who plays Rita Lyonsa mother, of course. Talk about your related themes: motherhood and food. Certainly food sounds like an integral part of Silver's life, too. A self-described former chubby kid ...

From 'The Lyons' to 'Tribes' to 'Other Desert Cities,' the Moms Who Make Theatre So Memorable
A mistake. The hip DJ makes references to Linda Lavin, Jim Croce, Bachman Turner Overdrive, and other '60s-'70s semi-icons seem as natural as Brenda Vaccaro's flair. Listening to "You're So Vain" again - it's so obviously about Ned Beatty.

Playwright Nicky Silver has a play on Broadway, but really just wants to be handsome and thin
Among the losers on Tuesday was the $75 million Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, which received only two minor nominations, and the critically acclaimed play The Lyons, which drew a best actress nomination for Linda Lavin but nothing else.

Nicky Silver movesnervouslyto Broadway
Best Performance by an Actress in Leading Role in a Play: Nina Arianda, "Venus in Fur"; Tracie Bennett, "End of the Rainbow"; Stockard Channing, "Other Desert Cities"; Linda Lavin, "The Lyons"; Cynthia Nixon, "Wit." Best Performance by an Actor ...

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Now she seems likely to face a race from several likely nominees, like Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow) and Linda Lavin (The Lyons), whom some Tony prognosticators are favoring. But what of Stockard Channing in Other Desert Cities?