Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize–winning comedy returns in a joyful and moving new production starring Danny Burstein (Follies, South Pacific, Roundabout's Company) and Sarah Paulson (HBO's Game Change, "American Horror Story," and Roundabout's Crimes of the Heart).
At the end of World War II, Matt Friedman, a Jewish immigrant who has spent his life keeping others at a distance, returns to the small town where he first met Sally Talley. Nothing like her conservative Protestant family and neighbors, Sally is a nurse with deep misgivings about the country’s future. After a lifetime of believing they’ll never truly belong in the world around them, Matt has worked up the courage to ask Sally for her hand, and convince her that they do belong—together.
Michael Wilson (The Best Man, Roundabout’s The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore) directs this funny and heart-warming play about finding love when you stopped looking.
![A man and a woman shake hands and laugh with each other. He has a short beard, glasses, and wears a suit. She has blonde hair and wears a yellow 1940s dress.](https://res.cloudinary.com/roundabout-theatre-company/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,h_450,q_auto:eco,w_800/v1/placeholders/Production-Photos/Talleys-Folly/TalleysFolly0809r1.jpg)
Danny Burstein and Sarah Paulson
Photo by Joan Marcus![A blonde woman in a 1940s yellow dress sits at the end of the pier, blue water reflecting on her face as she stares out. A man with a beard wearing a suit stands behind her.](https://res.cloudinary.com/roundabout-theatre-company/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,h_450,q_auto:eco,w_800/v1/placeholders/Production-Photos/Talleys-Folly/TalleysFolly0906r.jpg)
Danny Burstein and Sarah Paulson
Photo by Joan Marcus![A man and woman sit together on wooden steps and have an engaging conversation, a railing separating them. He has glasses and a beard, she has blonde hair and wears a yellow 1940s dress.](https://res.cloudinary.com/roundabout-theatre-company/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,h_450,q_auto:eco,w_800/v1/placeholders/Production-Photos/Talleys-Folly/TalleysFolly0871r.jpg)
Danny Burstein and Sarah Paulson
Photo by Joan Marcus![A man sits next to a woman and puts his arm around her as they both smile. She is blonde and wears a yellow 1940s dress, he has a beard and glasses and wears a suit.](https://res.cloudinary.com/roundabout-theatre-company/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,h_450,q_auto:eco,w_800/v1/placeholders/Production-Photos/Talleys-Folly/TalleysFolly0820r.jpg)
Sarah Paulson and Danny Burstein
Photo by Joan Marcus![A woman with blonde hair wearing a 1940s yellow floral dress stares into the distance while holding a straw hat.](https://res.cloudinary.com/roundabout-theatre-company/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,h_450,q_auto:eco,w_800/v1/placeholders/Production-Photos/Talleys-Folly/TalleysFolly0828r.jpg)
Sarah Paulson
Photo by Joan Marcus![A man with short hair and a beard gently dances with a blonde woman. They both wear 1940s clothing, him a suit and she a yellow floral dress.](https://res.cloudinary.com/roundabout-theatre-company/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,h_450,q_auto:eco,w_800/v1/placeholders/Production-Photos/Talleys-Folly/TalleysFolly0807r.jpg)
Danny Burstein and Sarah Paulson
Photo by Joan MarcusTalley's Folly Cast
- Matt Friedman
- Danny Burstein
- Sally Talley
- Sarah Paulson
Talley's Folly Creative
- Playwright
- Lanford Wilson
- Director
- Michael Wilson
- Set Designer
- Jeff Cowie
- Costume Designer
- David Woolard
- Lighting Designer
- Rui Rita
- Original Music & Sound Designer
- Mark Bennett
![The empty house of the Laura Pels Theatre. Rows of grey chairs incline upwards towards the back of the house.](https://res.cloudinary.com/roundabout-theatre-company/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,h_340,q_auto:eco,w_440/e_grayscale/e_tint:100:391f55:0p:ea5297:100p/v1/placeholders/Pells_1000x386.jpg)
Presented at
Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre
Laura Pels Theatre
111 West 46th Street, New York, NY
between 6th and 7th Avenues