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Mother Play Cast & Creative

Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger star in Paula Vogel's bitingly funny and unflinchingly honest new play.

This show is closed.

Performances ended on Jun. 16, 2024.

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About Mother Play

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.

Creative

Written by
Paula Vogel
Director
Tina Landau
Set Designer
David Zinn
Costume Designer
Toni-Leslie James
Lighting Designer
Jen Schriever
Sound Designer
Jill BC DuBoff
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