Theatrical snap: two sagas of politics and families

06 November 2025, The Tablet

Alexander Marks (Scotty/Tim) and Jennifer Westfeldt (Julie) in The Assembled Parties

Helen Murray

Sub-Carraway outsiders observe stories dominated by family values, wayward plotlines and warnings from history.

The Assembled Parties
HAMPSTEAD THEATRE, LONDON

The Line of Beauty
ALMEIDA THEATRE, LONDON

The Assembled Parties received three Tony nominations in 2013 for dramatist Richard Greenberg (a Pulitzer finalist for Take Me Out and Three Days of Rain). The delay in reaching the UK might be attributed to the absence here of a specifically US Jewish-American culture that includes Woody Allen movies, Philip Roth novels and Greenberg’s plays.

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