Little Footsteps
- Written by Ted Tally
- Directed by Gary Pearle
Ted Tally is an American playwright and screenwriter. A graduate of Yale, he has received awards including the Academy Award for Best Screenplay, the Writers Guild of America Award, the Chicago Film Critics Award, and the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. His most notable credit is the screenplay for The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Other scripts include White Palace, Before and After, The Juror and All the Pretty Horses. Terra Nova was given a staged reading at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in 1977 and went on to win an Obie Award. Coming Attractions won the Outer Critics Circle Award. Tally's plays include Hooters, Little Footsteps, and Silver Linings.
Gary Pearle is a director and writer. In addition to directing Tiny Footsteps, he directed Hooters and The Terrorists at Playwrights Horizons. Pearle's other Off-Broadway directing credits include Sparks in the Park, Tonight at 7:30, Tomfoolery, andTintypes, which earned him a Drama Desk Award nomination. Pearle directed the original Broadway production of Tintypes. Pearle has also worked in regional theatre and served as the director of the Williamstown Theatre Cabaret. His other regional credits include Bandstand at the American Stage Festival in New Hampshire and Shelter at Theatre Three in Dallas, Texas.
A hilarious and, at the same time, thoughtfully cautionary examination of the promises—and perils—of impending parenthood.
Featuring
Mark Blum
Jo Henderson
Anne Lange
Thomas Toner
Playwrights Horizons: After the Revolution; Little Footsteps; Gus and Al (Obie Award), Table Settings; Say Goodnight, Gracie. Broadway: The Assembled Parties, The Best Man, Twelve Angry Men, A Thousand Clowns, Lost in Youngers. Other Off-Broadway: The Model Apartment; The Good Mother; Lonely, I’m Not; We Live Here; Picked; Singing Forest; The Long Christmas Ride Home; The Waverly Gallery; Mizlanski Zilinski; It’s Only a Play; Key Exchange. Film: How We Fell in Love, Blumenthal, Shattered Glass, Desperately Seeking Susan, Crocodile Dundee, The Presidio, Blind Date, Worth Winning, Lovesick. TV: “Mozart in the Jungle” and many more.
Creative Team
Thomas Lynch
Scenic DesignerAnn Hould-Ward
Costume DesignerNancy Scherlter
Lighting DesignerScott Lehrer
Sound DesignerM.A. Howard
Production Stage Manager
Photo of Anne Lange and Mark Blum by Gerry Goodstein
There's a little something for nearly everyone. One can admire the dexterity with which the playwright touches all his comic, sociological and sentimental bases.
…it is civilized, literate, mind-stretching entertainment, its tomfoolery leavened by thoughtfulness and taste.