MICHAEL HARDART
Actor, Director
You and I, by Philip Barry, Metropolitan Playhouse (2018)
“This is a potent play with an almost universal message. The cast is excellent… My advice? Don’t miss it! You will come away thinking about the role of destiny in your own life.”
–Peter Vidani, Eyes on World Cultures
Tim Goodwin
Photo by Ed Forti
Tim Goodwin, Elisabeth Preston, Rebbekah Vega-Romero
Photo by Ed Forti
“Under the skilled direction of Michael Hardart, a cast with a solid understanding of period style captures the complex notes -- mixing surface laughter and subterranean loss -- of Barry's style.”
–David Barbour, Lighting & Sound America
Tim Goodwin and Elisabeth Preston
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“Michael Hardart has directed this with such joie de vivre that you just have to smile at these earnest but misguided characters who eventually figure it out.”
–Eva Heinemann, Hi! Drama
Mac Brydon and Meredith Sweeney
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“Thank you, Metropolitan Playhouse, for reviving Philip Barry's first Broadway play… warm and witty, as well as insightful about the need for family love as well as creative fulfillment”
-Mark Savitt, Hi! Drama
Aidan Eastwood and Albert Warren Baker
Photo by Vadimn Goldenberg
“It’s a vibrant script, insightful where human nature is concerned, witty and, in the end, heartrending. The Metropolitan Playhouse is doing Barry proud with this first New York City revival, directed by Michael Hardart… Hardart’s accomplished staging features a balanced ensemble cast of endearing players, with three leads—Goodwin, Preston, and Eastwood—who lend just the right buoyancy to Barry’s witty dialogue. But what’s best is how they capture the poignancy of the playwright’s subtext, as well as of his text. The production is a leap forward for this valuable troupe.”
– Charles Wright, Off Off Online
Aidan Eastwood and Rebbekah Vega-Romero
Photo by Anna Paola Pizzocaro