Broadway play is pulled for want of the right nomination

Sad to report that actress Fiona Shaw and director Deborah Warner have seen their latest venture, The Testament of Mary, Colm Tóibín’s one-woman play about the mother of Jesus, close on Broadway after just two weeks. Despite being nominated for three Tony awards, the show had lukewarm reviews and ticket sales were poor.

According to veteran Broadway critic Fintan O’Toole, the plug was pulled because Shaw hadn’t been nominated as best actress. “The show wasn’t pulled in spite of the Tony nominations,” he says. “It was pulled because it got the ‘wrong’ nominations. It is a bizarre process and has little to do with artistic values.”