Tickets are now available for Steven Levenson’s If I Forget off-Broadway. The production is scheduled to begin previews on January 19, 2017 at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre.
In July of 2000, immediately following the failed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks at Camp David, three adult siblings and their families gather in a suburb of DC for their father, Lou’s, 75th birthday. Middle son Michael, a Jewish studies professor, has recently finished the manuscript he hopes will push him into tenure. Dedicated to his father, a Jewish WWII veteran, the book argues an incendiary point about American Jews, Israel, and the Holocaust—but Lou hasn’t said a word about it, leaving Michael uneasy. And as the visit continues, it becomes clear that Lou isn’t the only member of the family leaving things unspoken. Money, marriage, and career pressures bear down, quickly turning familial responsibility into resentment.
The limited Roundabout Underground engagement is scheduled to run through April 16.