Playwright Matthew Lombardo, Known for Plays That Focus on Extraordinary Women, Offers Up ‘Conversations with Mother’
Lombardo and director Noah Himmelstein sustain a light comedic tone throughout; the writer acknowledges, with a wink, that his forays into slightly deeper waters haven’t endeared him to all reviewers.

During the past three decades, Matthew Lombardo has written a number of plays that focus on extraordinary and occasionally famous women, several of which have become vehicles for celebrated stage and screen actresses — among them Kathleen Turner, Kate Mulgrew, and Valerie Harper. Ms. Mulgrew played Katharine Hepburn in Mr. Lombardo’s “Tea at Five,” and Harper was Tallulah Bankhead in “Looped,” which had a short run on Broadway in 2010.
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