By Jennifer R Jones | Posted on September 13, 2014 1:44 PM
The Country House has begun previews at Manhattan Theater Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Starring Blythe Danner, this new play by Donald Margulies is directed by Daniel Sullivan and takes place in the Berkshire mountains. It is an adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull.
A New Play By Donald Margulies

A Manhattan Theater Club Production
The play is running at the Manhattan Theater Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on West 47th Street in the Broadway district. Of the six productions that Margulies has now had on Broadway, the last five of them have been produced by Manhattan Theater Club. The last three (including The Country House) went up at the Friedman Theatre; the others are April 2010’s Collected Stories and January 2010’s Time Stands Still, which then transferred to the commercial venue of Broadway’s Cort Theatre. Previously, MTC also supported Margulies with two of his other plays: 2005’s Brooklyn Boy and 2004’s Sight Unseen, both of which went up at the Biltmore Theatre. Margulies’ first work to be produced on Broadway was 1994’s What’s Wrong With This Picture? In addition to being a working playwright, Margulies is a professor at the Yale School of Drama.A Superb Cast
The show stars Blythe Danner as Anna Patterson. Danner, who is well known for her screen appearances in such roles as Will’s