The Tony Award-nominated drama played Broadway in spring 2024.

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From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Previews are now underway for Second Stage's newest play- Paula Vogel's Mother Play. In this video, watch as the cast unpacks their roles!

Paulson beat out fellow nominees Amy Ryan For Doubt: A Parable, Betsy Aidem For Prayer for the French Republic, Jessica Lange for Mother Play, and Rachel McAdams For Mary Jane.

Playwright David Adjmi’s incredible new play beat out fellow nominees Prayer for the French Republic, Mother Play, Mary Jane, and Jaja's African Hair Braiding.

The awards cap a Broadway theater season that had something for everyone — fun musicals like “Back to the Future,” sweeping romance in “The Notebook,” political rallying cries like “Suffs” and int…

Young beat out fellow nominees Quincy Tyler Bernstine for Doubt: A Parable, Juliana Canfield for Stereophonic, Celia Keenan-Bolger for Mother Play, and Sarah Pidgeon for Stereophonic.

Brill beat out fellow nominees Eli Gelb for Stereophonic, Jim Parsons for Mother Play, Tom Pecinka for Stereophonic, and Corey Stoll for Appropriate.

This year’s big Broadway winners so far include Jeremy Strong, Daniel Radcliffe and 70s-set play Stereophonic Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play Betsy Aidem, Prayer for the French Rep…

Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek interviews TV favorite Jim Parsons about his Tony-nominated turn in the Paula Vogel's MOTHER PLAY.

Tony-winner Idina Menzel will return to Broadway next year in the new musical Redwood written and directed by Mother Play director Tina Landau, producers announced today. The musical, which features music by Ka…

It's Tony time again. Was this an exciting year on Broadway? Yes! Was it a disappointing year on Broadway? Yes! Same as it ever was. And here we go: (A complete list of nominees is provided at the end of this…

In the Tony-nominated “Mother Play,” the writer conjures warm memories and thorny ones, not to judge her mother, but to understand — and to forgive.

The winners of the 68th Annual Drama Desk Awards were presented on June 10 at NYU Skirball Center, with Stereophonic winning in seven categories, including Outstanding Play. Water for Elephants received four wi…

We’re in the homestretch now, with just a week to go before next Sunday’s Tony Awards. And it's a particularly exciting time because there are virtually no sure winners this year and even the so-called fron…

There’s a lot to unpack in Paula Vogel’s Mother Play. Nominated for four Tony awards, including Best Play, the show is currently at Second Stage's Hayes Theater.

Broadway.com Managing Editor Beth Stevens speaks with MOTHER PLAY’s Tony®-nominated scribe Paula Vogel and 2024 Tony® nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger. Get tickets to MOTHER PLAY: https://www.broadway.com/shows…

Paula Vogel gave Celia Keenan-Bolger a heads-up 15 years ago that she was writing a play with the actress’ voice in mind. They never discussed what the play was about or anything about the character Keenan-Bo…

A far-ranging conversation about their common approach to text as a springboard, why they're past theory, and how they introduced Jessica Lange to Viewpoints.

It’s officially Pride Month in New York City and The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal is kicking it off with a journey to the heaviside layer. Cats: The Jellicle Ball, a queer reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Web…

The Broadway Show is the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access both on and off the stage…

Plus, find out what enticed Lange to return to the stage in the new Paula Vogel Broadway play.

The playwright explains the original inspiration behind some of her most beloved plays, including How I Learned to Drive, Indecent, and Mother Play.

The actor gives an astonishing, awards-worthy performance as a stage star with dementia in a slight yet powerful TV movie There’s an almighty performance super-powering HBO’s mysteriously handled TV movie T…

Towards the end of Paula Vogel’s hit Broadway drama Mother Play, all dialogue comes to a halt for 12 long, mesmerizing minutes, and Jessica Lange is on stage, alone, for every second of them. Her character Ph…

The new play by Paula Vogel is currently running at the Hayes Theater.

“I thought at least once, I should try a brand new play,” reveals Jessica Lange of her return to Broadway in “Mother Play.” The acclaimed actress won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Mary Tyrone in “…

According to Second Stage's Instagram story, the matinee of Mother Play has been canceled this afternoon due to 'an illness within the company.'

The Ceremony presenting the 2024 Winners with their awards occurred at the NY Public Library at Lincoln Center on May 23rd. All photos were taken by ace photographer Barry Gordin. OCC Winners noted in bold Outs…

It’s 1962, just outside of D.C., and matriarch Phyllis is supervising her teenage children, Carl and Martha, as they move into a new apartment. Phyllis has strong ideas about what her children need to do and …

Jessica Lange accepts her Outer Critics Award for her title role in “Mother Play” by Paula Vogel on Broadway.

The 74th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards for the 2023-2024 Theater season were presented to the winners in a ceremony at Lincoln Center. May 24, 2024: The 74th Outer Critics Circle Awards (OCC) were presen…

Tony-Award-winning actress Jessica Lange appeared on The View on Thursday to discuss her role in Paula Vogel's Mother Play. On the show, she also talks about her next project The Great Lillian Hall, an HBO film…

Broadway and Hollywood have long enjoyed a healthy symbiosis. Film stars face their fears of live theater while fulfilling a lifelong artistic ambition. Broadway gets a much-needed bump in attendance, and with …

Tune in to see Jessica Lange on The View next week! The Tony-nominated actress will appear on the program on Thursday, May 23 to discuss her role in Paula Vogel's Mother Play, which is currently playing at the…

Celia Keenan-Bolger received her fifth Tony nomination for “Mother Play,” but beyond her own recognition, she is most excited that she gets to navigate awards season alongside her nominated co-stars Jessica…

“It was a certain sense of elation,” reveals Jim Parsons when recounting the emotions around his first Tony nomination. The actor scored this recognition for his performance in “Mother Play” by Paula Vo…

Jessica Lange has starred on Broadway before — winning a Tony for her most recent appearance there in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” in 2016. But according to Lange, now back on Broadway in a Tony-nomi…

Oscar, Emmy and Tony winning actress Lange, now on Broadway in a Tony-nominated performance in "Mother Play," discusses premiering a new play on Broadway, explains why she could do without Wednesday matinees, a…

Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger stopped by The View on Monday to discuss the Tony-nominated Mother Play, where they are currently starring alongside Jessica Lange. The show marks Parsons' first-ever Tony no…

She's picked up her fifth Tony nomination for playing Paula Vogel in the new Broadway show.

Winners noted in bold Outstanding New Broadway Play Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions Patriots Stereophonic The Shark Is Broken Outstanding New Broadway Musical Days of Wine a…

Jeremy Jordan in The Great Gatsby (c) Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman Jena Tesse Fox, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about The Great Gatsby, Illinoise, Mother Play, and SOOP Theatre Company produc…

Mothers took center stage in the Broadway season just ended, getting star treatment for characters who range from vile to virtuous. Today, on Mothers Day, Jessica Lange in the title role of Paula Vogel’s “M…

Playwright Paula Vogel is known not just for her work on Broadway — but for the generations of famous playwrights whose careers she has nurtured. Mother Play is about her own mother.

"Mother Play," though based on Vogel’s own life, is her most schematic, more an outline barely fleshed out with lots of details rather than the intense emotional revelations of her earlier works such as "How …

The 2023-24 Broadway season has come to an end and the newly minted nominees for the 77th Tony Awards have begun their monthlong period of celebration and reflection. Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek …

Paula Vogel’s Mother Play is Jessica Lange’s fourth Broadway show, among the many other film and television projects that have populated her decades-long career.  But unlike her past roles, in which she ha…

This week, a literary legend and an anticipated Broadway revival come to The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal. But first, it’s a head-first dive into Tony season. Meet a few of this year’s Tony Award nomine…

As we approach Mother’s Day, it was fitting that two of the plays I saw this week had mothers as central characters, and they could not have been more different. “Mary Jane” is loving, self-sacrificing an…

The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor is currently starring in Mother Play on Broadway.

By: Paulanne Simmons May 5, 2024: Many of Paula Vogel’s plays explore themes related to her own life. In Vogel’s Baltimore Waltz, she turns her brother’s death from AIDS into an absurd fantasy. And th…

Jessica Lange anchors Paula Vogel's new work, which works as both an act of forgiveness and an exorcism. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Mother Play at the Helen Hayes Theater appeared first on Exeunt Ma…

We’re officially in awards season.  The Outer Critics Circle, on whose nominating committee I sit, announced its choices for the best in the 2023-2024 season last week (click here to see our nominations for …

Performances are now underway for Second Stage's newest Tony-nominated play: Paula Vogel's Mother Play. It’s 1962, just outside of D.C., and matriarch Phyllis is supervising her teenage children, Carl and M…

BroadwayWorld was on the red carpet at opening night of Mother Mother starring Celia Keenan-Bolger, Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Award winner Jessica Lange, and Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen…

Yipes - there is so much packed into this title.  Notice it is not "THE Mother Play."  It is "Mother Play" As such it is a full blown noun.   For me,  however, this story is Daughter Play.  Martha is ou…

Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . As the 2023-2024 Broadway season hurtled through its overstuffed last week before the annual awards deadline, two plays about motherhood—one more affecting than the …

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A must see. Sad. Funny. Great cast. Corine Cohen

By: David Sheward April 30. 2024: At the start of Paula Vogel’s Mother Play, presented by Second Stage at the Hayes Theater, I thought, “Oh no, not another monster mother drama!” The opening of this se…

Renée Elise Goldsberry and Jesse Tyler Ferguson have announced nominees for six categories of the 2024 Tony Award nominees this morning live from Sofitel New York. The full announcement airs on the Tony Awa…

Mother Play, a world-premiere family drama by Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel, opened on April 25 at Second Stage's Hayes Theater. Directed by Tina Landau, the play stars Tony winner Jessica Lange as Phyllis…

MOTHER PLAY stars Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger, as well as playwright Paula Vogel, discuss the family-centric play on the opening night red carpet. Get tickets to MOTHER PLAY: https://www…

All of the characters are halfway to madness, but I had a ball going bonkers with them. 

Three plays and four musicals opened on Broadway last week, the last of the 39 shows that opened during the 2023-2024 season. Awards season has already begun in earnest, with the nominations for two major theat…

Mother Play officially opened on Broadway on April 25 at the Hayes Theater. Check out photos of the cast and VIPs at the after party here!

After seeing Mother Play, Paula Vogel’s semi-autobiographical three-hander which opened at the Hayes Theater on the very last day of the 2023-2024 theater season, my friends and I went next door to Sardi’s …

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met on April 26 to confirm the eligibility status of 12 Broadway productions for the 2023-2024 season. This was the fourth and final time the Tony Awards Administration …

Watch as Broadway World's Richard Ridge interviews the company of Mother Play on Broadway!

Priscilla Lopez, Mary-Louise Parker, and Carla Gugino were among those in attendance for opening night of the new Broadway play.

Mother Play officially opened on Broadway last night, April 25. We're taking you inside opening night in the all new photos here!

Broadway Reviews for ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘Mother Play,’ Patti Murin and Christopher Ryan Grant to Lead New Johnny and June Carter Cash Musical, Tamika Lawrence Performs ‘Power of Love’ “Today …

Vogel’s nuanced exploration of her own family sets the stage for a profound and humorous new American play. 

Jessica Lange stars as a ferocious matriarch alongside Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons in Vogel’s latest family drama.

Hayes Theater, New York The Tony winner is as captivating as ever as a troubled matriarch but Paula Vogel’s emotionally underpowered play often struggles to meet her level At a performance of Pulitzer prize w…

Tony Award winner Celia Keenan-Bolger, Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Award winner Jessica Lange, and Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Jim Parsons return to Broadway in …

There is no handbook on motherhood, but most people try their best when it comes to childrearing. Today, amid increasingly accessible resources and freedoms that weren’t afforded in the past, parenting has u…

★★★★☆ Celia Keenan-Bolger, Jessica Lange, and Jim Parsons star as Paula Vogel's struggling family The post Mother Play: Evicting Not-So-Dear Old Mom, with Martinis appeared first on New York Stage Rev…