The Language of Trees put down roots off-Broadway on October 29, opening to a full house of fans eager to support the very able cast and their playwright Steven Levenson and director Alex Timbers. The production marks the second mounting of a show by the Roundabout Underground, an initiative founded by Broadway’s Roundabout Theatre Company to help nurture undiscovered playwrights and rising talents in the theater world.
The Language of Trees, which is about what happens on the homefront when a family is shattered by the abduction of its father by insurgents in Iraq, features close-knit players Natalie Gold,
Michael Hayden, Gio Perez, Maggie Burke and Michael Warner, who followed their big debut with a (slightly spooky, as you’ll see) after-show bash at O’Lunney’s Pub in Times Square. Now make like a tree… and ge