Broadway's upcoming production "Mother Play" by American playwright Paula Vogel, best known for her 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning play "How I Learned to Drive," is finally up on Second Stage Theater's marquee ahead of its world premiere in April 2, when it will start holding previews, as per Broadway World.
The limited engagement play is also slated to officially open on April 25 at NYC's Hayes Theater.
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About Paula Vogel's 'Mother Play'
Directed by Tony winner Tina Landau (SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical), the stage play comedy-drama also boasts a star-studded lead cast comprised of multi-award-winning actor and actresses Jim Parsons, Jessica Lange, and Celia Keenan-Bolger.
Its preview venue described the Vogel production as "a bitingly funny and unflinchingly honest new play about the hold our family has over us and the surprises we find when we unpack the past."
Set on the outskirts of DC in 1962, the show is centered on matriarch Phyllis, played by Lange, supervising her children Carl (Parsons) and Martha (Keenan-Bolger) amid their move to a new apartment in the area.
The production blends the creative highs of theatre with the surreal farce and tenderness that surrounds a family drama, culminating in a "beautiful roller coaster ride" shown through the mother-children trio's struggle against an ever-changing world.
A first look at the three highly-acclaimed actors in character, riding in the back of a moving truck posing beside the usual transporting accouterments of cardboard boxes, an odd lamp or two, and a radio, was snapped by People Magazine.
