Is that Jim Parsons and Jessica Lange disco dancing on Broadway?
Jim Parson and Jessica Lange in “Mother Play.” Photo by Joan Marcus. The Rundown
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel returns with another stinger for the stage. Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions stars Jessica Lange in the title role and Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger as her children.
The play spans 50 years and tracks the tumultuous relationship between a single mother (Lange) and her two children as they face economic hardships, addiction, and coming out. The all-star cast elevates one of the few LGBTQ+ narratives on Broadway this season. (For sapphic songstresses, head to the musicals Suffs or Lempicka.)
The list of original plays this spring is running lean, eclipsed by a slew of new musicals inhabiting most Broadway theaters. But if there’s
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