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, familiar for his plays Three Days of Rain and Take Me Out - both Pulitzer nominees - makes his Hampstead debut.

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). Television credits include Friday Night Dinner, Afterlife, It's A Sin and EastEnders.

"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

 Suggested age guidance 14+

Thematic: depictions of drug misuse and references to death and death related to AIDS. 

Please note that our content warnings evolve as the production does throughout rehearsal and previews, so there may be changes made between booking and attending the theatre. If you would like to speak to a member of our team about specific themes or concerns, please call the Box Office on 020 7722 9301 or email boxoffice@hampsteadtheatre.com