PERFORMANCE DATES
May 14 - June 22
WHERE
The Pershing Square Signature Center
BEGINS MAY 14 / THE PERSHING SQUARE SIGNATURE CENTER
LUNAR ECLIPSE
BY
DONALD MARGULIES
DIRECTEDÂ BY
KATE WHORISKEY
WITH
REED BIRNEY, LISA EMERY
“Maybe forgetting yourself once in a while is a good thing.”
From Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies (Dinner with Friends, Collected Stories) comes a stirring new play about the fragility of memory and the passage of time.
Late on a summer night, in a field on their Kentucky farm, a long-married couple, George and Em, have come to watch a lunar eclipse. As the seven stages of the celestial phenomenon unfold, the two sip bourbon and reflect on land and legacy, children and dogs. But as more and more is revealed, they realize they are as much a mystery to each other as the heavens above. Lunar Eclipse is a funny, moving, universal story of a couple reckoning with the time they’ve spent on earth and the time they have left.
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NOW PLAYING / HAYES THEATER
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THE STEPPENWOLF PRODUCTION OF
PURPOSE
BY
BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS
DIRECTEDÂ BY
PHYLICIA RASHADÂ
WITH
ALANA ARENAS, GLENN DAVIS, JON MICHAEL HILL, LaTANYA RICHARDSON JACKSON, HARRY LENNIX, KARA YOUNG
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From the Tony Award-winning playwright of Appropriate and directed by two-time Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad comes Purpose.Â
For decades, the influential Jasper family has been a pillar of Black American Politics: civil rights leaders, pastors and congressmen. But like all families, there are cracks and secrets just under the surface. When the youngest son Nazareth returns home with an uninvited friend in tow, the family is forced into a reckoning with itself, its faith and the legacies of Black political power and familial duty. Spirited, hilarious and filled with intrigue, Purpose is an epic family drama from one of the country’s most celebrated voices.