Product Description

With his acclaimed plays This Is Our Youth and The Waverly Gallery and his Oscar-nominated film You Can Count on Me, Kenneth Lonergan has been called "the new golden boy of stage and screen" by The New York Times. Now he returns to the stage with Lobby Hero, which has been praised as "smart, funny ... [a] drama that derives its strength from Lonergan's keen ear for dialogue. One powerful tale" (New York Daily News). Lobby Hero, nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, tells the story of Jeff, a luckless young security guard trying to get his life together after being thrown out of the navy. But the lobby proves to be no sanctuary from the world, as Jeff is drawn into a local murder investigation involving his supervisor, a tightly wound young man called upon to bear witness against his troubled brother, and an overzealous rookie policewoman who is in over her head with her unscrupulous hero-cop partner. As Ben Brantley of The New York Times wrote, "motives come in every shade but black and white" in Lobby Hero, creating a "combustible brew of impulses."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #296058 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

Great 4 Character Drama
The play reads well, and I can imagine it playing even better live. The main character, Jeff, is reminiscent of other characters that Lonergan has written for Mark Ruffalo. Read it, get the rights, do it.

Very pleased.
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One for the ages
I bought the script last month, and now I'm hoping to direct the show in the future. For a playwright that's not a household-name for theatre-fans (yet!) and for a script that I don't think won any awards, Lobby Hero has overcome those odds to become arguably my favorite play.

If you think you would like the issue of loyalty versus morality, then I think you would love Lobby Hero. The script is FILLED with ties to that issue, and it's intriguing every bit of the way.