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Article: Playwright Looks For Love, Laughs In Strangest Places
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- August 7, 1994
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One of the most eagerly awaited plays in Bailiwick Repertory's
Pride Performance Series is Paul Rudnick's "Jeffrey," the hit 1993
Off-Broadway comedy about a gay man's romantic misadventures in
modern-day New York.
There has been other comedies about AIDS, but "Jeffrey" is
destined to have a life beyond the stage. A movie version penned by
Rudnick, starring Steven Weber, Patrick Stewart, Sigourney Weaver and
Olympia Dukakis, is filming in New York.
Rudnick, no stranger to the movie world, rewrote the script for
"The ...