Theater Review: ‘A Life’

“A Life” offers a very touching portrayal of a life lived and not lived, and is a stark reminder of how fleeting it all can be.
Theater Review: ‘A Life’
David Hyde Pierce as Nate Martin, a lonely man trying to deal with existential issues. Joan Marcus
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NEW YORK—Few play titles are as dead-on and deliberately incomplete as Adam Bock’s “A Life,” a quietly powerful drama having its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons.

Nate Martin (David Hyde Pierce) is a 50-something man living alone in New York City after a breakup with his latest lover. He’s still reeling from this event, even though he’s loath to admit it.

Nate has a long-standing problem with intimacy and telling people how he really feels, which those in his Thursday group therapy sessions have pointed out to him more than once.

Pierce is excellent.
Judd Hollander
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Judd Hollander is a reviewer for stagebuzz.com and a member of the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle.
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