Well is a play about illness written by and starring Lisa Kron

Lisa Kron

Elizabeth S. "Lisa" Kron is an American actress and playwright.-Biography:Kron was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She jokes in one of her plays that her life began on her parents’ trip to Europe: “I was conceived in Venice, you know...

. Well made its world premier at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York City

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 in 2004. The play was directed by Leigh Silverman and also starred Jayne Houdyshell as Lisa's mother, Ann Kron. The Public Theater production garnered "Best of 2004" lists for The New York Times

The New York Times

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among other publications. Well also went to the American Conservatory Theater

American Conservatory Theater

American Conservatory Theater is a large non-profit theater company in San Francisco, California, that offers both classical and contemporary theater productions. A.C.T. was founded in 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Playhouse and Carnegie Tech by theatre and...

 in San Francisco before making its Broadway

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 debut at the Longacre Theater in March 2006. Both Lisa Kron and Jayne Houdyshell received Tony Award

Tony Award

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 nominations for their acting roles. Despite almost universal critical acclaim, Well was not enough of a commercial success for Broadway and its run ended in May 2006. Well will be performed by the Huntington Theater Company in Boston, Massachusetts at the Boston University

Boston University

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 Theater in March 2007. It will be performed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is a regional repertory theatre in Ashland, Oregon, United States. The festival annually produces eleven plays on three stages during a season that lasts from February to October...

 in their 2010 Season (running February - June, 2010).

It just completed a limited 32 performance run at the Apollo theatre in London starring Natalie Casey as Lisa Kron and Sarah Miles as her mother, on January 24, 2009.

External links

• Playbill article
• The Playwright - Working in the Theatre Seminar video at American Theatre Wing.org
  American Theatre Wing
  The American Theatre Wing is a New York City-based organization "dedicated to supporting excellence and education in theatre," according to its mission statement...
  
  , February 2006
• Well on Broadway