This event is in the past.It took place on May 16, 2026 at Playwrights Horizons.
Play
PlayHell's Kitchen, New York
❤️"the beating heart of Rheology is less its intellectual rigor than its tenderness" (Exeunt)
🎭They stage the mother's death as preparation for grief
⏱️80 minutes with no intermission
A son and his physicist mother stage her death nightly while exploring why sand flows like water then jams solid. Part lecture, part meditation, part love letter, this Obie-winning collaboration turns particle physics into an unexpectedly tender rumination on grief and the bonds that hold us together.
Off-Broadway
mother-son collaboration
experimental theater
science on stage
PlayPlayHell's Kitchen, New York
❤️"the beating heart of Rheology is less its intellectual rigor than its tenderness" (Exeunt)
🎭They stage the mother's death as preparation for grief
⏱️80 minutes with no intermission
A son and his physicist mother stage her death nightly while exploring why sand flows like water then jams solid. Part lecture, part meditation, part love letter, this Obie-winning collaboration turns particle physics into an unexpectedly tender rumination on grief and the bonds that hold us together.
Off-Broadway
mother-son collaboration
experimental theater
science on stage