Lunar Eclipse 2025

Opened: June 3, 2025
Closing: June 22, 2025

Lunar Eclipse - 2025 Off-Broadway History , Info & More

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Second Stage - Tony Kiser Theatre

305 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036

Run Type Limited Run

Market Off-Broadway

Previews May 14, 2025

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 - 2025 - Off-Broadway Cast

Reed Birney

Lisa Emery

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FEATURED REVIEWS FOR Lunar Eclipse

Lunar Eclipse: Reflective Tale of a Waning Marriage

From: New York Stage Review By: Roma Torre Date: 2025-06-04

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.

'Lunar Eclipse' Off-Broadway review — Reed Birney and Lisa Emery lead a marriage story under the stars

From: New York Theatre Guide By: Caroline Cao Date: 2025-06-04

6 / 10

Although Birney and Emery plant the heart and humor of Lunar Eclipse, Margulies struggles to craft a momentum of highs and lows as the couple unravel their regrets. In particular, dour introspections, such as George admitting he cares for his dogs more than his late adopted son or Emery sacrificing her city upbringing for married life on the farm, feel smoothed over.