Lunar Eclipse Tickets
About Lunar Eclipse
Get Lunar Eclipse tickets and see theatre stars Reed Birney and Lisa Emery play a married couple in Donald Margulies’ newest play. A Second Stage production, Lunar Eclipse plays at Pershing Square Signature Center for a limited run starting in May. Sweat director Kate Whoriskey stages this New York premiere. See this riveting new drama about rediscovering the life partner you thought you knew.
A celestial event is coming: experience Lunar Eclipse in New York to see two theatre icons take the stage in Pulitzer Prize winner Margulies’ new play. Birney, a Tony Award winner for The Humans, and Emery, an Obie Award winner and three-time Drama Desk nominee, are two of the city’s most accomplished theatre actors. Now, they come together in a play about memory, the cosmos, and how to look forward to the next phase of life. See Lunar Eclipse off Broadway with TodayTix.
Stars on stage
Reed Birney
Lisa Emery
Lunar Eclipse cast and creative team
By: Donald Margulies
Director: Kate Whoriskey
Cast list: Reed Birney (as George), Lisa Emery (as Em)
Sets: Walt Spangler
Costumes: Jennifer Moeller
Lighting: Amith Chandrashaker
Sound: Sinan Refik Zafar
Other info: Video design by S. Katy Tucker, and original music by Grace McLean
Venue
Accessibility
Wheelchair access, assisted listening devices; open caption, audio described, and ASL performances
More information about Lunar Eclipse
Donald Margulies has long proved himself to be a wise writer understanding how the subtlest events can bring out the biggest emotions. As the prize-winning author of Dinner with Friends, Sight Unseen, and Collected Stories, he is a masterful storyteller and a humorous interpreter ot married life. That light comedy is on great display in his new play, Lunar Eclipse.
In this new play, George (Reed Birney, Succession, Mass) and Em (Lisa Emery, Ozark, Jessica Jones) spend a night on their Kentucky farm as the seven stages of the celestial phenomenon unfold. Amidst a lunar eclipse, the pair chat about kids, dogs, homes…and also unravel the secrets between them. Maybe they are still in love, or maybe they are just discovering how little they know about the person sitting opposite them.
A fresh play about later-in-life love, Lunar Eclipse is a stirring and aching show and a love letter to two of New York’s finest theatre performers.
What to watch for
- Reed Birney was in a previous production of the play in Massachusetts, with The New York Times raving “he doesn’t so much produce emotions as shed them. After nearly 50 years onstage, that’s no surprise.”
- Birney has been in countless New York plays, including Circle Mirror Transformation and Casa Valentina, but he is also known for his work on the screen, as on High Maintenance, Girls, Changeling, and more.
- Lisa Emery is also a frequent screen and stage presence, with TV and film roles on Sex and the City and Margot at the Wedding and stage appearances in Marvin’s Room, Iron, and more.
- Kate Whoriskey is a new-play director with many credits under her belt, including How I Learned to Drive at Second Stage, Sweat on Broadway, and Aubergine at Playwrights Horizons.
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