“Building Faces Wrecking Ball.
So Does Couples’ Friendship” – NY Times (2015)
OREN SAFDIE’S LATEST ARCHITECTURE PLAY RECEIVES ITS
FIRST PUBLIC READING AT NEW YORK’S URBAN STAGES
FAÇADE
A new comedy
Written by Oren Safdie
Directed by Anthony Patellis
CAST
Cindy Cheung Robert Montano
Gia Forakis Michael Sean McGuinness
Sunday, April 16 @ 7:00pm
New York, April 2023 – Oren Safdie, an internationally celebrated playwright of contemporary architecture culture, will have his new play, Façade, presented as a staged reading at Urban Stages in New York. The play – his 5th centered in the world of contemporary architecture – is inspired by New York's Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) recent expansion, and the controversial decision by its architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, to demolish the beloved Folk Art Museum, designed by their friends, Billie Tsien and Tod Williams. The play is a fictionalized take on what may have transpired be-tween the two architecture couples as they grappled with their choices, wrestled with their conscience, and tried to come to a balanced decision in the face of intense scrutiny by their profession, the New York Press, and the public at large … How far will they go to fight for their building?
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