The play explores one son's struggle to balance his own happiness with the needs of his aging parents, and his yearning for a closer relationship with the father he cannot change.

Dullea's Broadway credits include Butterflies Are Free, Dr. Cook's Garden, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and P. S. Your Cat Is Dead! He was most recently seen Off-Broadway in the 2007 production of J.M. Barrie's Mary Rose. Dullea has extensive film credits, and is perhaps best known for the character of astronaut David Bowman in the 1968 film 2001, A Space Odyssey.