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Mother Play

Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive) has written an unflinchingly honest and bitingly funny play about the hold our family has over us, and our coming to terms with the scars we leave on each other.

  • Show Information

    Previews: April 2, 2024 Opening: April 25, 2024 Duration: 2hrs 10min. 1 Intermission

    Group Information

    Group Minimum:10

  • CAST

    Phyllis: Jessica Lange Carl: Jim Parsons Martha: Celia Keenan-Bolger

    CREATIVE STAFF

    Written by: Paula Vogel Director: Tina Landau

  • SYNOPSIS

    It’s 1962, just outside of D.C., and matriarch Phyllis is supervising her teenage children, Carl and Martha, as they move into a new apartment. Phyllis has strong ideas about what her children need to do and be to succeed, and woe be the child who finds their own path. Bolstered by gin and cigarettes, the family endures — or survives — the changing world around them. Blending flares of imaginative theatricality, surreal farce, and deep tenderness, this beautiful rollercoaster ride reveals timeless truths of love, family, and forgiveness.
  • Playing at:
    The Helen Hayes Theatre
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