Dreams of the Washer King

Tickets and Information

Christopher Wall's emotionally delicate and melancholy play, Dreams of the Washer King, now at the Cherry Lane Studio, is a work that flaunts its theatricality, effectively using its lighting and sound design (by Traci Kaliner and Charles Coes, respectively) to underscore its time-bending intentions. One ultimately wishes the storytelling were in service to a better story, but there's still much to admire in Wall's writing and the work of a talented cast.


The play begins with our meeting a lonely and desperate mother named Claire (Carla Harting), and her unhappy son, Ryan (Ben Hollandsworth). Moving in down the street is a violent widower named Wade (Stevie Ray Dallimore) and his attractiv[...]