{"id":183108,"date":"2026-04-02T03:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183108\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:49:13","slug":"wallace-shawn-deborah-eisenberg-step-in-for-what-we-did-before-our-moth-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183108\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallace Shawn & Deborah Eisenberg Step In for WHAT WE DID BEFORE OUR MOTH DAYS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Playwright Wallace Shawn<\/a> and Deborah Eisenberg<\/a> will step into WHAT WE DID BEFORE OUR MOTH DAYS for two performances at the Greenwich House Theater in New York City. The appearances will take place April 1 and April 2, replacing Hope Davis<\/a> and Maria Dizzia<\/a>, who are out due to illness.<\/p>\n

The announcement was made by producers Scott Rudin<\/a> and Barry Diller<\/a>. Shawn will perform in his own work alongside Eisenberg for the limited engagement.<\/p>\n

The casting change was made with short notice ahead of the scheduled performances, with Shawn and Eisenberg joining the production on the day of the announcement.<\/p>\n

Wallace Shawn<\/a>\u2019s What We Did Before Our Moth Days is extended for a final two weeks, now playing its final performance on Sunday, May 24. The production starring Hope Davis<\/a>, Maria Dizzia<\/a>, John Early<\/a>, and Josh Hamilton<\/a> under the direction of Andr\u00e9 Gregory, is currently in performances at the Greenwich House Theater. Read the reviews for the production HERE<\/a>!<\/p>\n

The play celebrates the legendary, lifelong collaboration between Wallace Shawn<\/a> and Andr\u00e9 Gregory that began with Mr. Shawn\u2019s play Our Late Night, directed by Mr. Gregory at The Public Theatre<\/a> in 1975 \u2013 a production that buoyed the experimental theater movement of the era. \u00a0Among their renowned film collaborations are 1981\u2019s My Dinner with Andre (co-written by and starring the two men); and Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), a filmed adaptation of Chekhov\u2019s Uncle Vanya which they workshopped for years. \u00a0In 2000, Mr. Gregory directed the New York production of Mr. Shawn\u2019s The Designated Mourner, produced by Mr. Rudin. \u00a0It was named one of the greatest American plays of the past 25 years in 2018 by The New York Times.<\/p>\n

What We Did Before Our Moth Days is set in an urban world of intelligent and somewhat gentle middle-class people \u2013 a father, mother, son, and the long-time mistress of the father, who tell the intimate story of their lives. Mr. Shawn, a student of morality whose plays have brought us frank truths about politics and sexuality, takes on the subject of love \u2013 suffocating and freeing \u2013 and the kaleidoscopic journeys we make through remorse, sorrow, resentment, and joy. Mr. Shawn and Mr. Gregory have created a work that is as strange, and at times hilarious, as My Dinner with Andr\u00e9.<\/p>\n

The design team for What We Did Before Our Moth Days includes scenic and costume design by Riccardo Hern\u00e1ndez, lighting design by Jennifer Tipton<\/a>, sound design and original music by Bruce Odland<\/a>, and projection design by Bill Morrison<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Playwright Wallace Shawn and Deborah Eisenberg will step into WHAT WE DID BEFORE OUR MOTH DAYS for two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-183108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}