Lunar Eclipse Off-Broadway Tickets, News, Info & More
Second Stage - Tony Kiser Theatre
305 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036
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 stirring new play about the fragility of memory and the passage of time. Late on a summer night, in a field on their Kentucky farm, a long-married couple, George (Birney) and Em (Emery), have come to watch a lunar eclipse. As the seven stages of the celestial phenomenon unfold, the two sip bourbon and reflect on land and legacy, and children and dogs. But as more and more is revealed, they realize they are as much a mystery to each other as the heavens above. Lunar Eclipse is the funny, moving, universal story of a couple reckoning with the time they’ve spent on earth and the time they have left.
Lunar Eclipse - Off-Broadway Cast
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Lunar Eclipse
7 / 10
I wish there had been more “there” there, because these two actors are clearly up to the bit. I am sure of thief because as mild mannered as the text was, Birney and Emery made us believe that these two were the real deal. As performers and characters their bond is mighty. And that, my friends, is pretty much the whole deal.
Lunar Eclipse: Reflective Tale of a Waning Marriage
8 / 10
At its best, the production, incisively directed by Kate Whoriskey, is a moving and sometimes humorous portrait of two aging midwesterners staring their mortality in the face and re-assessing their lives together. Both have deep regrets and the more we learn about them, the more we can identify with their loss and introspection.
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Review Roundup: LUNAR ECLIPSE at Second Stage Theater
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 4, 2025
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 4, 2025
Read the reviews for Lunar Eclipse at Second Stage Theater in BroadwayWorld's Review Roundup. Learn more about the production and see what the critics are saying here!
Reed Birney and Lisa Emery to Star in LUNAR ECLIPSE at Second Stage Theater
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 18, 2025
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 18, 2025
Second Stage Theater will conclude its 46th Season with the New York Premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies’ LUNAR ECLIPSE. Learn more and see how to attend.
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