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Opening Night:: November 6, 2003
Closing:: December 21, 2003

Theater: Biltmore Theatre / 261 West 47th Street, New York, NY, 10036

Synopsis:

Set in 1919, The Violet Hour by Richard Greenberg tells the tale of a driven young publisher at the start of his career - and the mysterious machine that could radically change his future. Robert Sean Leonard, Dagmara Dominczyk, Mario Cantone, Scott Foley, and Robin Miles star in a production directed by Evan Yionoulis for Manhattan Theatre Club.

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NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF The Violet Hour

Jazz Generation Sees The Future: It's Not Cool
Ben Brantley

November 7, 2003: The gods who govern the fortunes of playwrights are an arbitrary lot, stroking with one hand, smiting with the other. In the last year, they have mostly been stroking Richard Greenberg, the lyrical, thoughtful dramatist whose wonderful new work, ''The Violet Hour,'' opened last night in a less than wonderful production at the Biltmore Theater. It is, not incidentally, a play about the waywardness of destiny and how it tarnishes the golden and the gifted.

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