“I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?” That Andy Warhol quote kept running through my mind as I watched Jordan Harrison’s “Marjorie Prime,” which opened Monday at the Helen Hayes Theatre. When it ...
An elderly woman turns to a holographic AI to keep her memories alive in this thought-provoking Santa Rosa production.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two women seated, one older with a blanket and one younger with a striped shirt. 1 hour, 20 minutes, no intermission. Hayes ...
In our present reality, with the floodwaters of AI slop licking at the rolled cuffs of our pants, it’s a pretty sure bet that Second Stage’s elegant revival of Harrison’s play will be applauded for ...
The play, which was adapted into a 2017 film, raises ethical and emotional questions that feel particularly urgent in 2026, when people are increasingly forming real-life relationships with ...
In the era of AI companions, the question of humanity’s relationship with technology has, perhaps, never been more pressing. Second Stage Theater’s latest production, “Marjorie Prime,” affirms this ...
NEW YORK — The central premise of “Marjorie Prime,” now on Broadway with Cynthia Nixon, June Squibb, Danny Burstein and Christopher Lowell, is that technology might allow the creation of bespoke ...
Are we more than just our memories? It's a huge question, yet it only accounts for one of the many ideas being kicked around in Jordan Harrison's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play. A decade after its L.A.
How on earth does playwright Jordan Harrison pack so much into the 80 or so minutes of his tragicomic "Marjorie Prime"? On a guess, it has to do with the fact that his nimble play depicts people who ...
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