Stephen Karam is an American playwright whose plays include Speech & Debate and Sons of the Prophet, a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the 2012 Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel and Hull-Warriner awards for Best Play.
'a funny, mournful, richly detailed and deeply humane study of a
beleaguered family celebrating Thanksgiving dinner in a tumbledown
Chinatown apartment... Karam is a profoundly compassionate writer.
He shows us the bravery and tenderness of people trying – and
sometimes failing – to get on with their lives.'
*Guardian*
'A haunting, beautifully realized play, quite possibly the finest
we will see all season... Blisteringly funny and altogether
wonderful.'
*New York Times*
'[a] beautiful, funny-sad and ultimately wrenching portrait of a
troubled lower-middle-class Pennsylvania family... builds on the
ample promise of Karam's earlier works, confirming him as a
uniquely probing investigator of the contemporary American
psyche'
*Hollywood Reporter*
'blisteringly funny, bruisingly sad and altogether wonderful...
Written with a fresh-feeling blend of documentarylike naturalism
and theatrical daring... Mr. Karam's comedy-drama depicts the way
we live now with a precision and compassion unmatched by any play
I've seen in recent years.'
*New York Times*
'A kind, warm, beautifully observed and deeply moving new play, a
celebration of working-class familial imperfection and affection
and a game-changing work for this gifted young playwright.'
*Chicago Tribune*
'Karam is in rare form here, showing a remarkable ear for the way
families converse… For all the characters’ woes, this is a warm,
funny, sharply observed portrait of their abiding connections with
one another.'
*Time Out Chicago*
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