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The cast of Mother Play.
The cast of Mother Play.

First Look: Mother Play on Broadway

Natalie Stahl | 

Mother Play is now in performances at the Hayes Theater, officially opening Thursday, April 25, 2024. Take a look at new production photos with stars Jim Parsons, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Jessica Lange.

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.

Take a look at the new production photos below.

Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jessica Lange in Mother Play.
Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jessica Lange in Mother Play. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons in Mother Play.
Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons in Mother Play. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons in Mother Play.
Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons in Mother Play. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Celia Keenan-Bolger in Mother Play.
Celia Keenan-Bolger in Mother Play. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Jessica Lange and Celia Keenan-Bolger in Mother Play.
Jessica Lange and Celia Keenan-Bolger in Mother Play. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Jessica Lange in Mother Play.
Jessica Lange in Mother Play. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Jessica Lange in Mother Play.
Jessica Lange in Mother Play. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger in Mother Play.
Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger in Mother Play. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Jim Parsons and Jessica Lange in Mother Play.
Jim Parsons and Jessica Lange in Mother Play. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Jim Parsons in Mother Play.
Jim Parsons in Mother Play. Photo by Joan Marcus.
The cast of Mother Play.
The cast of Mother Play. Photo by Joan Marcus.

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