Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey meet on the porch of their nursing home and strike up a friendship, with Weller teaching Fonsia how to play gin rummy. As they play, they share stories about the lives ...
ALAMEDA — I knew nothing about old people, nursing homes or card games when I first saw “The Gin Game.” It was 1981 and I was 17. I found the two old people entertaining and profoundly inspiring, but ...
Two old folks playing gin rummy in a dilapidated rest home. Doesn’t quite sound like a recipe for compelling drama, but hand it to a pair of living legends like Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy and ...
NEW YORK -- A new revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winnng play The Gin Game marks the first time that James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson have shared a Broadway stage in nearly 50 years. But don't tell ...