Let's Love! tickets

By: Ethan Coen
Director: Neil Pepe
Producer: Atlantic Theater Company
Cast list: Aubrey Plaza, Chris Bauer, Dylan Gelula, Dion Graham, Mary McCann, Nellie McKay, Noah Robbins, CJ Wilson, Mary Wiseman
Sets: Riccardo Hernandez
Costumes: Peggy Schnitzer
Other info: Original compositions by Nellie McKay

Atlantic Theater Company Artistic Director Neil Pepe has a long relationship working with Ethan Coen, one half of the acclaimed filmmaking duo the Coen Brothers. Pepe has also directed two other of Coen’s plays, Offices and Almost an Evening, staged at the Atlantic over a decade ago. Now, the writer returns as he looks to pivot from the screen to the stage.

Almost an Evening, like Coen’s new play Let’s Love!, was full of “tasty, bite-sized comedies,” per The New York Times, who also called Pepe and Coen “a dream team — theatergoers nostalgic for the urbane, mind-teasing divertissements that once flourished Off-Broadway should leave happily hungry.”

In his play, Coen addresses the confusing times we live in and how love acts as a balm and key. Anything but sappy, these idiosyncratic love stories reveal love — in all its miserable glory. We live in dark times, so why not live in the dark together?

What to watch for

• Neil Pepe, in addition to being the Atlantic artistic director, is also a Tony Award nominee for directing the revival of American Buffalo.
• Some of the Coen Brothers’ most celebrated films include Fargo, The Big Lebowski, A Serious Man, and True Grit.
• The Atlantic often premieres new works that go on to enjoy big Broadway lives, as with The Band’s Visit, Spring Awakening, Kimberly Akimbo, and more.
• Entertainment Weekly called Almost an Evening, Coen’s last play at the Atlantic, “boisterous and fun. Coen couldn’t ask for a better production than this Atlantic Theater Company treatment.”