The Seven Year Disappear 2024
Opened: February 25, 2024Closing: March 24, 2024
The Seven Year Disappear - 2024 Off-Broadway History , Info & More
The Pershing Square Signature Center [The Alice Griffin Jewelbox Theatre]
480 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036
Naphtali’s (Taylor Trensch) world-famous performance artist mother (Cynthia Nixon) disappeared suddenly seven years ago. And yet, he sees her everywhere: in the faces of friends, coworkers, the guy he’s flirting with. When his mother returns with few answers and a major request, Naphtali is forced to confront what he’s spent years trying to forget. A funny, deeply human mystery of mothers and sons, coming of age, and coming apart. This production marks a return to The New Group for Cynthia Nixon, where she directed Rasheeda Speaking and Steve, and appeared on stage in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, directed by Scott Elliott. This marks a New Group debut for playwright Jordan Seavey and Taylor Trensch.
The Seven Year Disappear - 2024 - Off-Broadway Cast
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‘The Seven Year Disappear’ Review: Looking for Mom in All the Wrong Places
5 / 10
Nixon, a delicately skilled stage performer, plays each character as a slightly exaggerated persona, like roles an artist might try on to demonstrate that identity is a kind of drag. If there are psychoanalytic underpinnings to this approach, they’re not compellingly explored. The result is two actors operating in uneven registers throughout, with Trensch as the so-called straight man to Nixon’s shuffle of mild caricatures. (The exceptions are mother-son confrontations that Elliott pitches as earplug-worthy shouting matches.)
'The Seven Year Disappear' review — Cynthia Nixon stars as a woman grappling with art and motherhood
6 / 10
The Seven Year Disappear circles around questions about artistic practice and purpose, growing up as if your life is not your own, and the conflation of identity and consumption. But Seavey seems uninterested in engaging with these ideas directly and thoroughly. The characters never share their views on the purpose of art, particularly in the context of using one’s own life as material. There’s no detailed engagement with art as processing or capital or exploitation. At most, Naphtali confesses he’s “fucked up” because of his relationship with his mother's work, but such a straightforward declaration betrays the play's lack of linguistic imagination.
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THE SEVEN YEAR DISAPPEAR To Live Stream Three Performances This Month
by Blair Ingenthron - March 20, 2024
by Blair Ingenthron - March 20, 2024
The New Group and nonprofit The League of Live Stream Theater (LOLST) are partnering to live stream performances of the world premiere production of The Seven Year Disappear by Jordan Seavey.
Review Roundup: THE SEVEN YEAR DISAPPEAR Starring Cynthia Nixon and Taylor Trensch Opens Off-Broadway
by A.A. Cristi - February 26, 2024
by A.A. Cristi - February 26, 2024
Emmy and Tony Award-winner c star in THE SEVEN YEAR DISAPPEAR, opening tonight at The New Group, a funny, deeply human mystery of mothers and sons, coming of age, and coming apart. Read the reviews!
Photos: Go Inside the Opening Night of New Group's SEVEN YEAR DISAPPEAR
by Bruce Glikas - February 26, 2024
by Bruce Glikas - February 26, 2024
Emmy and Tony Award-winner Cynthia Nixon and Taylor Trensch star in THE SEVEN YEAR DISAPPEAR, is running now at The New Group. The play is a funny, deeply human mystery of mothers and sons, coming of age, and coming apart. Go inside the play's opening night in new photos!
THE SEVEN YEAR DISAPPEAR Starring Cynthia Nixon and Taylor Trensch Extends
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 20, 2024
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 20, 2024
The New Group will present an additional week for The Seven Year Disappear by Jordan Seavey, featuring Emmy and Tony Award-winner Cynthia Nixon and Taylor Trensch.
Photos: First Look at Cynthia Nixon and Taylor Trensch in THE SEVEN YEAR DISAPPEAR
by Stephi Wild - February 14, 2024
by Stephi Wild - February 14, 2024
All new photos have been released from The New Group's world premiere production of The Seven Year Disappear, starring Cynthia Nixon and Taylor Trensch. Check out the photos here!
The Seven Year Disappear History
Other Productions of The Seven Year Disappear
| 2024 | Off-Broadway |
New Group Off-Broadway Premiere Production Off-Broadway |
The Seven Year Disappear - 2024 Off-Broadway Awards and Nominations
Note: Award winners will appear on a background
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance | Cynthia Nixon |
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