Mother Play

Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive) has written 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.

It’s 1962, just outside of D.C., and matriarch Phyllis (Jessica Lange) is supervising her teenage children, Carl (Jim Parsons) and Martha (Celia Keenan-Bolger), as they move into a new apartment. Phyllis has strong ideas about what her children need to do and be to succeed, and woe be the child who finds their own path. Bolstered by gin and cigarettes, the family endures — or survives — the changing world around them. Blending flares of imaginative theatricality, surreal farce, and deep tenderness, this beautiful roller coaster ride reveals timeless truths of love, family, and forgiveness.

Awards and Nominations

      Best Play

      Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play – Jessica Lange

      Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play – Jim Parsons

      Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play – Celia Keenan-Bolger

Outstanding New Broadway Play – Paula Vogel

Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play – Jessica Lange – Winner

Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play – Celia Keenan-Bolger

Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play – Jim Parsons

Outstanding Play –  Paula Vogel, Second Stage Theater

Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play –  Jessica Lange – Winner

Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play – Celia Keenan-Bolger – Winner

Outstanding Production of a Play