Surviving Grace - revised - originally The Apple Doesn't Fall

Originally titled The Apple Doesn't Fall, this revised edition of Writer Trish Vradenburg's Broadway comedy-drama is an absorbing play, full of smart and bitchy showbiz dialogue coupled with some powerful and memorable onstage characters. What's remarkable is that this is the first attempt by Vradenburg--a successful T V sitcom writer, journalist, and novelist--at playwriting

Usually, TV sitcom writers who cross over to the stage create little more than a couple of side-by-side T V sitcoms, lacking only the mandatory commercial breaks. All this isn't the case with the sensitive Vradenburg, who really has a 'stage feel' about things, much in the tradition of Joe Orton

We're not treated to a bunch of the usual TV sitcom stick figures; her characters have depth and scope L... based on a true experience: the battle against crippling Alzheimer's disease by the author's mother

Vradenburg's play is laced with humor, compassion, and bittersweet irony...." Ed Kaufman, The Hollywood Reporter