Off-Broadway: HOLD ON TO ME DARLING (written by Kenneth Lonergan; starring Adam Driver; Lucille Lortel)

Kenneth Lonergan’s Hold on to Me Darling is playing through Dec. 22, starring Adam Driver, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

Joining Driver as Strings McCrane are Heather Burns as Nancy, Adelaide Clemens as Essie, Keith Nobbs as Jimmy, CJ Wilson as Duke, and Frank Wood as Mitch.

On learning of his mother’s death, country music icon Strings McCrane (Driver) finds himself in an existential tailspin. The only way out, he decides, is to abandon superstardom in favor of the simple life, so he moves back to his hometown in Tennessee. The simple life turns out to be anything but simple in this brilliantly observed tragicomedy, as the consequences of Strings’s success and mind-bending effects of his fame prove all but impossible to outrun.

Hold on to Me Darling is directed by Neil Pepe, written by Kenneth Lonergan. The creative team for Hold on to Me Darling is Walt Spangler (scenic design), Suttirat Larlarb (costume design), Tyler Micoleau (lighting design), and David Van Tiegham (sound design).

Hold on to Me Darling
Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street
ends on December 22, 2024
for tickets and more info, visit Hold on to Me Darling and Lortel

photos by Julieta Cervantes