Mother and Daughter at Bay Street
“MOTHER (and me),” a solo play written by and starring Melinda Buckley, will come to the Bay Street Theater for one night on Monday.
Ms. Buckley uses humor to tell the story of her Hungarian mother’s descent into dementia. She plays both herself as a Broadway actress and her mother. Laced with Ms. Buckley’s family history, the performance follows the journey of this mother-daughter duo as they age and confront questions around loss and memory. Kimberly Senior, a freelance director and adjunct at Columbia College, will irect.
The show will run at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20.
Ms. Buckley will relinquish the Bay Street stage to Colin Quinn on Tuesday when, at 4 p.m., the first of four workshop presentations of “Colin Quinn’s New York Story,” directed by Jerry Seinfeld, will take place. Mr. Quinn will present the complete show, which is scheduled to open at the Cherry Lane Theater in Manhattan in July, with minimal staging and production elements.
Based on his just-released book “The Coloring Book,” “New York Story” brings the comedian’s satiric outlook to bear on the prejudices, peculiarities, and paranoia of the Big Apple. A veteran of five years on “Saturday Night Live,” Mr. Quinn has many television and film credits in addition to three one-man shows, the most recent of which, “Colin Quinn Unconstitutional,” debuted on Broadway in 2013.