Tom Noonan's Paradise Factory

02/24/2026

Anyone local please feel welcome to come by! Outside the theater - 64 East 4th Street - we have set up some pictures and candles to honor Tom. Feel free to add a picture, note, flowers, etc., anything that might make him laugh.

Thank you for the kind messages. They are wonderful to read ❤

02/24/2026

We are celebrating and mourning our dad, Tom. He passed on Valentine's Day, surrounded by his family. A celebration of life will be held on April 12th.

He played memorable screen villains, notably a psychopath in “Manhunter,” but also wrote, directed and starred in well-received plays at a theater he founded in Manhattan.

12/15/2024

02/28/2020

The Paradise Factory continues to support theater and film work - from conception, to Development, to Production and Presentation.

12/21/2018

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His plays, produced frequently in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, often threw polar opposites together to explore themes both comic and serious.

08/03/2017

Available for streaming on Amazon

03/23/2016

Check it out. TN back with Louie... Enjoy.

LOUIS CK: Horace and Pete Episode 8 available NOW.

03/15/2016

Tom stops by to tickle the ivories. Check it out.

Though Charles Darwin never actually said, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change,” it’s arguably the most appropriate quote for Horace And Pete. If there’s a central tension in the series, it’s between adaptation

03/01/2016

We lost the Oscar but this is pretty interesting...

On a wintry afternoon, alone with the kids, I visited the Central Park Zoo. It’s not a very big place, just zoo-sized, and after seeing the animals, we found ourselves lining up to enter the little movie theater to watch something called The Polar Express 4-D Experience.

02/18/2016

Going wide(r) - check out a theater near you.

If you can’t trust Tim League, who can you trust?

01/26/2016

Hope you get a chance to see ANOMALISA.

Michael Stone, husband, father and respected author of "How May I Help You Help Them?" is a man crippled by the mundanity of his life. On a business trip to Cincinnati, where he's scheduled to speak at a convention of customer service professionals,...

01/19/2016

Anomalisa was originally a sound-play put on in 2005 featuring the same three actors that appear in the film: David Thewlis as Michael Stone, Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lisa Hesselman, and Tom Noonan as everyone else. You might remember Tom Noonan as Sammy Barnathan in Synecdoche, the tall fellow with the pelican face that follows Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character Caden Cotard around for 20 years and eventually plays Cotard in the outsized play of his and everyone else’s life. In this amazing audition speech, you can see what a great straight man Noonan is, with a smooth monotone that remains unaffected even while delivering lines like “and I want to f**k you until we turn into a Chimera, a mythical beast of p***s and va**na eternally fused, two pairs of eyes that look only at each other, and lips ever-touching, and one voice that whispers to itself.”

Charlie Kaufman’s new film is charming but much simpler than his previous work. || Nicky Smith