★★★★ “Devilishly funny… an unabashed delight” The Times
★★★★ “Blanche McIntyre’s deft, poignant production” Financial Times
★★★★ “A crackling family comedy” The Guardian
★★★★ “Greenberg’s way with language was itself dreamy” London Theatre
★★★★ “A fantastic story with writing full of richness and subtlety led to a wonderful watch” All that Dazzles
★★★★ “It was a joy to experience the two acts of this play” London Box Office
★★★★ “If you enjoy witty plays, excellent actors and interesting discussions, then this is the show for you” Theatre Tonic
★★★★ “A thoughtful, funny and heartfelt story” West End Best Friend

Former movie star Julie Bascov insists on taking Christmas seriously – despite her family’s reminders that that they are in fact Jewish. Every year, she and her impossibly well-heeled husband Ben host a feast in their palatial apartment on Central Park West. In December 1980, their son and his best friend Jeff come down from Harvard to join the party, and Jeff is dazzled by the Bascov clan. But when he returns for the same occasion twenty years later he finds that much that was sown in 1980 has been reaped in the intervening years…

Richard Greenberg’s virtuosic comedy-drama was such a sensation when it played on Broadway in 2013 that it had to be extended three times. Greenberg, who died in July of this year, is familiar for his plays Three Days of Rain and Take Me Out – both Pulitzer nominees.

Blanche McIntyre returns to Hampstead after her productions of Letters from Max, Apex Predator and the record breaking The Invention of Love.

Tracy-Ann Oberman returns to Hampstead following sell-out successes Old Money and Godchild. Her recent theatre credits include The Merchant of Venice 1936 (RSC, West End, UK Tour), Mother of Him (Park Theatre) and Present Laughter (Chichester Festival Theatre). Multi award-winning actor, writer and director Jennifer Westfeldt makes her London theatre debut in The Assembled Parties. Her previous credits include Wonderful Town (Broadway) for which she was nominated for a Tony Award, and screen work includes Kissing Jessica Stein, Friends With Kids, Grey’s Anatomy and 24.

“Imagine “Brideshead Revisited” rewritten and relocated by the young Philip Roth (with assistance from F. Scott Fitzgerald and J. D. Salinger), and you’ll have a sense of the setup of “The Assembled Parties”…” New York Times

We are grateful to Ken & Lin Craig for kindly supporting this production.

We thank The Assembled Parties Production Syndicate for their contributions to the production: Gillian King, Claire Tremeer & Bob Reichert, Richard & Susan Wolff.