The Assembled Parties, which will star Tony nominee Jessica Hecht and Tony winner Judith Light, takes us to the  home of former movie star Julie Bascov (Hecht) and her sister-in-law Faye (Light).  The occasion is a traditional family holiday dinner. Tonight’s dinner includes  a house guest who brings a new energy to the proceedings.

Set in the large, rambling apartment of the Bascov family in New York’s Upper East Side, The Assembled Parties offers us a glimpse of a Jewish family with secrets to hide. We meet that family in 1980 as they hold their holiday dinner with a guest in attendance. The play, which spans 20 years, offers a complication that intensifies the family drama. It’s a guest who will turn things upside down as he accidentally or perhaps purposefully insinuate himself into the family drama. Will the apparently accomplished and happy Bascov family see its world crumble apart?

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Julie Bascov Jessica Hecht

Faye Judith Light

Jeff Jeremy Shamo

Mort Mark Blum

Ben Sam Robards

Written by Richard Greenberg

Director Lynne Meadow

Settings Santo Loquasto

Costumes Jane Greenwood

Lighting Peter Kaczorowski

Sound & Original Music Obadiah Eaves

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