The Assembled Parties

The late US playwright Richard Greenberg’s comedy The Assembled Parties was a big hit on Broadway in 2013 and now finally makes it over to Hampstead Theatre, which has often given smash US plays overlooked by the West End a London home. Blanche McIntyre’s production will star US actor Jennifer Westfeldt as Julie, a Jewish former movie star who insists on lavish annual Christmas celebrations at her palatial Central Park West apartment. The play visits them twice: once in 1980, at their peak; and again in 2000, as thing have become unravelled. Tracy-Ann Oberman co-stars as Faye, Julie’s troubled sister in law.