It returns from 23rd January 2019. Lucy Barton will be played by three-time Academy Award and four-time Tony nominee Laura Linney, making her London debut. And I Back by popular demand, the show returned to the London stage in 2019, and will be making its Broadway debut in January 2020. Save The play is Laura Linney's first … My Name Is Lucy Barton book. By Marilyn Stasio My Name is Lucy Barton review, Bridge Theatre: Laura Linney's UK stage debut is a bittersweet delight 4. Her name is Lucy Barton. My Name is Lucy Barton is currently playing at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York.. That’s who you’ll meet in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s US premiere of My Name is Lucy Barton, which stars the award-winning powerhouse, Laura Linney.The solo performance is a testament to Linney’s incredibly skilled craft and the writer’s questionable choice of subjects. In June 2018 Laura made her London theatre debut in Richard Eyre’s limited three-week run of My Name Is Lucy Barton, the stage play adapted from the Elizabeth Strout novel of the same name and opened to rave reviews. ‘My Name is Lucy Barton’: Theater Review Laura Linney reprises her starring role in the one-person play that premiered in London last year. She hasn’t seen her in years, and her visit brings back to Lucy her desperate rural childhood, and her escape to New York. This one was called Amgash. It doesn’t flop hard — with its limited ambition, it has no height from which to fall. Elizabeth Strout’s atmospheric novel, “My Name Is Lucy Barton,” comes to the stage as a glum, gray dud. Although it is a one-woman show, there are several very fine storytellers at work in My Name Is Lucy Barton, a new play based on the 2016 Elizabeth Strout novel of the same name… Her name is Lucy Barton and she grew up poor and lonely in the kind of podunk small town that the Midwest seems to specialise in. Laura Linney plays a writer recalling an interruption to her long estrangement from her emotionally withholding mother in 'My Name Is Lucy Barton,' playwright Rona Munro's solo adaptation of … Laura Linney makes her London stage debut in this adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout's novella 'My Name Is Lucy Barton,' directed by Richard Eyre. ‘My Name is Lucy Barton’ returns in January 2019.I have not read Elizabeth Strout’s 2016 novel ‘My Name is Lucy Barton’. My Name is Lucy Barton premiered at the Bridge Theatre on 6th June 2018. Steven Suskin, New York Stage Review: Transforming My Name Is Lucy Barton from page to stage in such engrossing manner is quite a feat on the part of … This review is from June 2018. by Meredith Ganzman . The play will be released as an audiobook on 4 Feb, read by Laura Linney.. Unsteady after an operation, Lucy Barton wakes to find her mother sitting at the foot of her bed. Read 12,199 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Reviews; June 7, 2018 8:26AM PT London Theater Review: Laura Linney in ‘My Name Is Lucy Barton’ ... and lets “My Name Is Lucy Barton” reach into America’s heart.