What is Barrymore (play)?
{{Infobox play |title=Barrymore |writer=[[William Luce]] |characters=John Barrymore<br>Frank |premiere=1996 |place=[[Stratford Festival]] |orig_lang=English |genre=[[Drama]] |setting=Broadway theatre }} '''''Barrymore''''' is a two-person play by [[William Luce]]. It is about actor [[John Barrymore]] taking place a few months before his death in 1942 as he is rehearsing a revival of his 1920 [[Broadway theatre |Broadway]] success as ''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]''. The play was first made at the [[Stratford Theater]] in 1996. It was directed by [[Gene Saks]] and [[Christopher Plummer]] played Barrymore. He won the [[Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play]]. Plummer played the role again in [[Érik Canuel]]'s 2011 [[Barrymore (movie)|movie version of the same name]].<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Film Review: Barrymore|date=15 November 2012|magazine=[[Film Journal International]]|url=http://www.filmjournal.com/node/7439|accessdate=31 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101030329/http://www.filmjournal.com/node/7439|archive-date=1 January 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{lit-stub}} [[Category:American plays]] [[Category:1996 plays]]