L. Coburn's 1976 play, 'The Gin Game,' have withdrawn from the world, willingly or not, and await the inevitable end with minimal protest. By contrast, James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson ...

Cicely Tyson turns 91 in December and there’s a moment in the uneven Broadway revival of The Gin Game when the years ... streak is the spine of the play as Weller’s astonishment quickly ...

Together, the stars of The Gin Game, James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson, are 175 years old. They draw from massive piles of skill and goodwill, and watching these masters play the audience is a ...

“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 ...

Although the play's been around over thirty years, I'd never seen D.L. Coburn's The Gin Game, and at the beginning, I expected it to be a heartwarmer. Two old people connect on the seldom-used ...

She achieves this marvel twice in the new Broadway revival of “The Gin Game,” which opened Wednesday ... is Coburn’s play, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1978. Since Tyson’s continual ...

The same rules of the game can also apply to life. Playwright Donald L. Coburn fashioned himself a two character play “The Gin Game” that won him a Pulitizer Prize in 1978 and in his own words ...

Paula Scrofano and John Reeger co-star in D.L. Coburn’s play, “The Gin Game,” at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace. (Photo: Brett Beiner) Share It is worth heading to the Drury Lane ...

the hot-tempered gin player in his 1978 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “The Gin Game.” “The Gin Game” – about the relationship between Weller and a fellow nursing-home resident whom he tea ...

Instead they start playing gin rummy at a card table on the home’s back porch. Weller helps Fonsia remember how to play, but soon she is winning every game. Weller can’t claim a single hand.

“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 ...