A High-Powered Cast Admirably Handles Paula Vogel’s Sometimes Difficult ‘Mother Play’ 

Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons, and a Broadway favorite, Celia Keenan-Bolger star in a semi-autobiographical work that suggests that Vogel harbors considerable anger toward the original ‘Mother,’ and also regards her with some pity.

Joan Marcus
Jessica Lange and Celia Keenan-Bolger in 'Mother Play.' Joan Marcus

“A Play in Five Evictions” is the subtitle of Paula Vogel’s “Mother Play,” and so before we get into the Pulitzer Prize winner’s latest text, or the starry cast she and director Tina Landau have assembled to introduce it — consisting of Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons, and a Broadway favorite, Celia Keenan-Bolger — let’s talk about set changes.

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