The annual picnic's approach brings simmering attractions to the surface. While the chemistry between Hal and the radiant Madge Owens (Maggie Dorfman) is meant to ignite palpable sparks ...

In William Inge’s bittersweet 1953 hit “Picnic,” a hunky charmer appears ... leggy elegance as Madge Owens. Sebastian Stan (“Captain America”), the dreamy outsider Hal Carter, isn ...

On the morning of a small-town Labor Day picnic, drifter Hal Carter (William ... He meets up with Madge Owens, the town beauty queen, who is Alan Benson's girlfriend.

Madge Owens, left, played by Angie Solomon, and Alan Seymour, played by Lane Johnson, perform a scene from Picnic, a play by Independence native William Inge. KU Opera will stage the piece ...

“Picnic,” the William Inge classic about ... the fetching, but unsatisfied Madge Owens ("Lost's" Maggie Grace). “What good is it to be pretty?” Madge asks her mother, Flo, in one revealing ...

The cast will be led by Reed Birney as Howard Bevans, Maggie Grace as Madge Owens, Elizabeth Marvel as ... "Sensual, passionate and delightfully funny," Picnic, according to the Roundabout ...

More than any version of 'Picnic' I've seen this one, which has been designed with period exactitude by Andrew Lieberman (set) and David Zinn (costumes), highlights the role of prettiness as both ...

As Madge, the peaches-and-cream blonde on whom ... Alan (Ben Rappaport), at the Labor Day picnic, determined that she should get a foot in the country club door. Flo’s aspirations, however ...

The acts takes place before and after the picnic. Cathy Ritter is wonderful as a suspicious and determined Flo Owens, a world-weary widow with two teenage daughters. Her older daughter Madge (Abby ...

He hated to do it, and couldn’t do it in Picnic until he was thoroughly sloshed, which was okay, since he was supposed to be tipsy anyway.) It’s not enough that Madge is, hands down ...

Meet Flo Owens, deceptively low-key as played by ... wistful nostalgia for a man in the house -- is engineering a picnic. Madge's beau, Alan (Ben Rappaport), scion of the richest family in this ...

It’s a balmy Labor Day in the American Heartland, and a group of women are preparing for a picnic ... especially the beautiful Madge. When Hal is forced out of town, Madge must decide whether ...