Infinite Life

Starting in the 2000s, playwright Annie Baker marked herself as one of the theater's major new voices with a run of fascinating works including Circle Mirror Transformation, The Flick, John and The Antipodes. Now she returns with her first new play in more than five years: a look a pain and desire, as explored by five women in northern California. James Macdonald directs the world premiere—coproduced by the Atlantic and the U.K.'s National Theatre—with a murderers' row of New York stage actors: Marylouise Burke, Mia Katigbak, Christina Kirk, Kristine Nielsen, Brenda Pressley and Pete Simpson.