Cicely Tyson turns 91 in December and there’s a moment in the uneven Broadway revival of The Gin Game when the years fall away, when she is evanescent, transformed for a quickly passing instant ...

“The Gin Game” is a nasty piece of business. The Pulitzer Prize-winning 1976 play by Donald L. Coburn seems at first like a charming little comedy about two lonely residents at a nursing home ...

The Gin Game Broadway in 2015 - The Gin Game Weller Martin (James Earl Jones) and Fonsia Dorsey (Cicely Tyson) meet on the porch of their nursing home and strike up a friendship, with Weller ...

‘The Gin Game’ Broadway Review: James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson Play to Win. Two veteran stars make old age look easy, even in the relic that is D. L. Coburn’s Pulitzer-winning play ...

After Weller offers to teach Fonsia how to play the card game Gin Rummy, they start a series of games many of which Fonsia wins much to Weller's frustration. The Bing's performances are powerful ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. Bain Boehlke and Wendy Lehr first worked together more than 40 years ago. Now they are performing "The Gin Game," a play about old age and friendships ...

In between the Jefferson fiasco and the announcement of Presidential Towers, Sue Gin took her biggest gamble, buying 12 buildings and 6 vacant lots in the West Loop, the project she dubbed Haymarke… ...

“The Gin Game” is about two older people, Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, who live in a rundown nursing home. Neither have friends at the home. When they meet and he offers to teach her how ...

In “The Gin Game,” D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play that opened over the weekend at Park Square Theatre, Weller (Terry Hempleman) and Fonsia (Greta Oglesby) find themselves without ...