While Somewhat Predictable and Prosaic, ‘Lunar Eclipse’ Serves as a Showcase for Its Two Gifted, Game Players

While Somewhat Predictable and Prosaic, ‘Lunar Eclipse’ Serves as a Showcase for Its Two Gifted, Game Players

Reed Birney manages to lend grit and poignance to dialogue that can border on boilerplate, while Lisa Emery, who was delicious in a far more sinister role in ‘Ozark,’ proves equally adroit at fleshing out her character.

Review Roundup: LUNAR ECLIPSE at Second Stage Theater

Second Stage Theater is concluding its 46th Season with the New York Premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies’ LUNAR ECLIPSE, directed by Drama League Award winner Kate Whoriskey. The production stars Tony Award-winner Reed Birney and Drama Desk Award Nominee 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 sti…

“Lunar Eclipse”: An Elegy Play of the Heart

Review by Ron Fassler . . . For more than forty years, playwright Donald Margulies has been delighting audiences with thought-provoking plays on a range of subjects and issues. The recipient of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Dinner with Friends, his early works include Found a Peanut (1982), in which a group of children aged five to fourteen—played by adult […]