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Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano in True West. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano in True West. Photo by Joan Marcus.

First Look: True West

Opposites attack in Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play True West, about two brothers with more in common than they think. Holed up in their mother’s California house, lowlife Lee (Ethan Hawke) and screenwriter Austin (Paul Dano) wrestle with big issues—and each other. Order vs. chaos. Art vs. commerce. Typewriter vs. toaster…Shepard’s rip-roaring classic returns to Broadway, gleefully detonating our misguided myths of family, identity and the American Dream.


Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano in <i>True West</i>. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano in True West. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Paul Dano and Ethan Hawke in <i>True West</i>. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Paul Dano and Ethan Hawke in True West. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Paul Dano and Ethan Hawke in <i>True West</i>. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Paul Dano and Ethan Hawke in True West. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano in True West. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano in True West. Photo by Joan Marcus.

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