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 w…
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 role…
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-…
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 absu…
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 appeare…
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 ch…
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 Glo…
Yipes - there is so much packed into this title. Â Notice it is not "THE Mother Play." Â It is "Mother Play" As such it is a full blown noun. Â For me, Â however, this story is D…
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 a…
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 open…
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 Je…
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 MOTH…
All of the characters are halfway to madness, but I had a ball going bonkers with them.Â
Broadway " Second Stage at Hayes Theater: 240 West 44 Street April 25-June 16, 2024 Drama Author: Paula Vogel Director: Tina Landau Critic: David Sheward (April 2024) ***1/2 At the start of …
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…
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 …
Eight years after her last visit to Broadway, Tony Award winner Jessica Lange returns to the stage in "Mother Play," a true story about a dysfunctional family with themes of love, loss, forg…
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!
Vogel's nuanced exploration of her own family sets the stage for a profound and humorous new American play.Â