My Dinner with Andre at Boston Center for the Arts

My Dinner with Andre

Boston Center for the Arts
539 Tremont Street Boston

Based on what Roger Ebert deemed "the best movie of 1981", the piece chronicles a simmering debate between two old friends about the life of an artist and the art of making a living. Harbor co-founders Jonathan Fielding and Robert Kropf will reprise their performances in the roles made famous by the movie's creators, Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory.

Presented by The Harbor Stage Company

Thru - Mar 30, 2025

Wednesdays: 7:00pm

Thursdays: 7:00pm

Fridays: 7:00pm

Saturdays: 7:00pm

Sundays: 2:00pm

Show Type: Drama

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My Dinner with Andre Reviews

Average Rating based on 5 reviews

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The Boston Globe - Somewhat Recommended

"...The first half of the movie-turned-play version of "My Dinner with Andre'' is static, but it grows sharper and more absorbing in its second half. Questions about careers and purpose and existence are posed that have no easy answers. Crucially, Wally, as he is called, starts to challenge Andre a bit, so certain scenes have the flavor of a dialectic rather than a one-sided performer-audience dynamic."

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- Don Aucoin

The Sleepless Critic - Highly Recommended

"...Cut out all the noise and have dinner with André, especially if you love theatre. My Dinner with André blends insightful banter, witty dialogue and subtle humor into a memorable reunion among friends."

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New England Theater Mirror - Somewhat Recommended

"...Many great conversations happen at a table, over the course of a meal, when thoughts are shared and hearts are bared. The ritual of devouring sustenance and drinking in words can be deeply human. Harbor Stage Company’s My Dinner With Andre endeavors to serve a slice of life, but the meat and potatoes are far too small a portion and leave the audience famished."

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- Charlotte Snow

Boston Arts Diary - Highly Recommended

"...Though, in so many ways, the film is intentionally small and limited in scope, its implications are large, for it demonstrates what, in feeling and connection, attenuated discourse can signify. This play, though a modest adaptation of the film in alteration of dialogue, has equally large implications in showing, viscerally and immediately, the feeling and connection between these characters in the here and now, highlighting the potency of the kind of vivid and honest theater to which the film points."

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- Charles Munitz

Broadway World - Highly Recommended

"...Written by and starring comedic actor and playwright Wallace Shawn and avant garde theater director Andre Gregory, and based on their lives, the 1981 film is the story of two old friends who share dinner at a New York bistro while revisiting their ongoing debate about the life of an artist and the art of making a living."

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- R. Scott Reedy

My Dinner with Andre at Boston Center for the Arts