“Is He Dead?” is the Mark Twain play that was rediscovered by our classmate Shelley Fisher Fishkin and produced on Broadway in 2007. It’s now on stage in Long Beach, CA. Below is an excerpt from the L.A. Times review:
“The throaty guffaw you just heard emanating from the great beyond belongs to Mark Twain, who is no doubt getting a kick out of the posthumous success of his 1898 play ‘Is He Dead?’ — an exceedingly silly doodle of a comedy that he never saw produced in his lifetime.
“Thankfully for us, ‘Is He Dead?’ was recently resurrected from Twain’s archives and has received a first-rate polish by playwright David Ives. A production opened on Broadway in 2007 to some critical praise, and now the comedy is receiving its West Coast premiere in a buoyant staging by the International City Theatre in Long Beach. . . .”
For the full review, click here or visit www.latimes.com. For an interview of Shelley by Jordan Young, click here or visit www.examiner.com. The photo below is of Shelley with director Shashin Desai and Caryn Desai, general manager of the International City Theatre.
