Grand Horizons
by Bess Wohl

Name: Grand Horizons
Brand: Bess Wohl
SKU: 9780822241867

Broadway

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Highlights

Female

Male

120 mins Present Day Role(s) for Senior Actor(s) Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Awards & Recognition

Drama League Award Tony Award

Nominee: Two 2020 Tony Awards, including Best Play Nominee: Two 2020 Drama League Awards

Synopsis

Fifty years into their marriage, Bill and Nancy want a divorce.

While they seem unfazed by the decision, their two adult sons are shaken to the core, forced to reexamine everything they thought they knew about their parents’ outwardly happy lives.

In Bess Wohl’s emotional powder keg of a play, familial tensions are revealed and comedy is mined from the barbed comments that only people relate to each other can launch.

As the family grapples with their new reality, each must reckon with their own imperfect past and how their collective love for each other might express itself in new and unlikely forms.

Grand Horizons is a show that ponders the possibly not-eternal nature of love and how its end might have repercussions for more than just the couple involved.

Supremely funny and sharp, Wohl’s characters explode off the stage.

Press Reviews

"I swooned for Grand Horizons, which for all its plot about a marriage’s unforeseen implosion has another matter urgently on its mind…Wohl’s play is a powerful argument for the full humanity of women in our culture – a matter that’s not as settled as we might like to think."
— The New York Times

"Grand Horizons is a sweet, sweet delight. Extremely funny, while also asking a few tart questions about comedy itself."
— New York Magazine

"Playwright Bess Wohl nails the [family] genre beautifully with Grand Horizons, which…provides two hours of solid laughs (including some pretty high peaks of riotous guffaws) while quizzically pondering issues of love and marriage."
— BroadwayWorld

"A supremely funny comedy of marital malaise, Grand Horizons is that rare animal, a smart but crowd-friendly Broadway comedy, one that does not pander to the audience and finds twisty new paths through familiar pastures."
— Broadway News