EVERYTHING’S FINE

Everything’s Fine, a world premiere autobiographical one-man play written and performed by Academy Award-nominated writer, actor and director Douglas McGrath, and directed by two-time Tony Award and six-time Emmy Award winner John Lithgow, opened on October 13, 2022 at the DR2 Theatre (101 East 15th Street) and closed November 3, 2022 due to Mr. McGrath’s untimely passing. The production was produced by 13-time Tony Award winner Daryl Roth and Emmy Award winner Tom Werner.

Mr. McGrath’s varied career included co-writing the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for Bullets Over Broadway, writing and directing Emma starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, and Toni Colette, and writing the book for the long-running and Tony Award-winning Broadway show, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. He began his career as a writer for “Saturday Night Live,” and has been a contributor to The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and The New Republic, among other publications.

Everything’s Fine recounted McGrath’s life as a 14-year-old in Midland, Texas – the town most famous for the disappearance below ground, and the recovery above ground, of “Baby Jessica.” McGrath shares remembrances of the courtship of his one-eyed father and his mother, who worked at Harper’s Bazaar for Diana Vreeland and became pals with Andy Warhol, and most intriguingly, an eighth-grade teacher who would change his life in the most unexpected way.

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