Heading down to Walker Street to attend a performance of The Guys at the Flea Theater last month, I thought I was on my way to see Bill Murray reunited with Sigourney Weaver in their first professional collaboration since the Ghostbusters movies.
The Guys is the two-character, three-hankie play that Jim Simpson, the Flea’s founder and artistic director (and Weaver’s husband), commissioned from a Columbia journalism professor named Anne Nelson in October of last year, after meeting her at a dinner party and hearing her talk about her experience helping a fire captain to write a series of eulogies for the Continue reading