“A Woman Among Women,” a new play that began as a Bushwick Starr and New Georges world premiere in 2024, began previews May 16 at Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3, with opening night set for June 4, in a co-production that runs through June 28 at the Claire Tow Theater, 150 West 65th Street in Manhattan, the producing companies said.
Written by Julia May Jonas, the play is presented by LCT3 in partnership with The Bushwick Starr and New Georges, with music and music direction by Brian Cavanagh-Strong and direction by Sarah Cameron Hughes. According to New Georges, all LCT3 tickets are priced at $35.
The play is set on a summer day in Northampton, Massachusetts, where Cleo, the founder of a local women’s wellness center, holds court in her backyard as friends, family and neighbors pass through and a tension builds that may destroy the community she has worked to build, according to the producers. New Georges described the work as a “sharp, subversive counterpoint” to Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” and a new take on American tragedy. The producers identified Jonas as the writer of “Vladimir,” in development at Netflix, and the LCT3 play “Your Own Personal Exegesis.”
In promoting the run, New Georges cited a New York Times Critic’s Pick that called the play “a fresh story freshly told” and a Vulture review that described it as “fascinating, playful, and ultimately wrenching.”
The LCT3 cast features Brittany K. Allen, Gabriel Brown, Tina Chilip, Zoë Geltman, Morgan Siobhan Green, Hannah Heller, Lucy Kaminsky, Drew Lewis and Dee Pelletier, according to New Georges. The company said the LCT3 iteration began with a first rehearsal at Lincoln Center Theater’s rehearsal space that included a meet-and-greet, design presentations and a first read-through.
Ahead of the public on-sale, New Georges and The Bushwick Starr had offered a 48-hour pre-sale to their audiences using the code NEWGEORGES, releasing what the company called premium on-stage and side-section seating for what it described as the most intimate and immersive experience of the show. The company said the code expired at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 21, when remaining tickets went on sale to the public.
New Georges, which describes itself as advocating for “an intergenerational ecosystem of exuberant theatrical minds” and for advancing new work alongside gender equity, also promoted JAMboree, a biennial showcase from The Jam, its artist-led, collaboration-based “performance gym,” presenting proof-of-concept slices of works in progress. The free, reservation-required showings took place at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 1, and Saturday, May 2, at CPR — Center for Performance Research, 361 Manhattan Avenue in Brooklyn, the company said, adding that applications to The Jam open this summer.
