‘Eastern Standard’

The John Drew Theater Lab will present a free reading of “Eastern Standard,” a play by Richard Greenberg, on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Peter Connolly will direct the production, with a cast of Chloe Dirksen, Joanna Howard, Kate Mueth, Christian Scheider, Tristan Vaughan, and Mr. Connolly.

“Eastern Standard,” set in 1987, premiered in 1988 in Seattle before moving to New York City Center in Manhattan and subsequently to the John Golden Theatre. Four Manhattan yuppies strike up a friendship in a chic restaurant after an altercation with a homeless woman. Six months later they are in the Hamptons, where they attempt to rehabilitate her.

In his review in The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote, “What gives this play its unexpected weight and subversive punch is its author’s ability to fold the traumas of his own time into vintage comedy without sacrificing the integrity of either his troubling content or his effervescent theatrical form.”