Little Bear Ridge Road
The dream duo of stage queen Laurie Metcalf and director Joe Mantello gave us Three Tall Women and Hillary and Clinton, but their most recent collaboration—a 2020 revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?—was derailed by the Covid epidemic. And that epidemic happens to be the subject of their new Broadway project: an intimate drama by Samuel D. Hunter, whose plays are exquisitely crafted and detailed depictions of life in rural Idaho that explore recurring themes (physical and financial limitations, queer identity, crises of family and faith) with seemingly endless variety and sympathy. As in the show's world premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf last year, Metcalf and co-star Micah Stock play estranged relatives who must reunited to handle estate questions as Covid-19 begins to spread. John Drea and Meighan Gerachis complete the small cast.Â