US stage star Jennifer Westfeldt will make her London theatre debut alongside Tracy-Ann Oberman in the European premiere of Richard Greenberg’s The Assembled Parties, which opens at Hampstead Theatre this October.
The Assembled Parties is a sharply observed portrait about an extended New York Jewish family. 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…
The cast also includes Daniel Abelson, Julia Kass, David Kennedy, Alexander Marks and Sam Marks. Young actors Rex Bamber and Maxwell Rich share the role of young Timmy.
Greenberg’s virtuosic comedy-drama played on Broadway in 2013 – and was extended three times due to popular demand. The playwright, known for Take Me Out, Three Days of Rain and The Dazzle, died earlier this year.
Directed by Blanche McIntyre, the creative team also includes designer James Cotteril, lighting designer Malcolm Rippeth, sound designer John Leonard and casting director Anna Cooper.
The production plays the Main Stage at Hampstead Theatre from October 17 – November 22, 2025.
Tickets here.
Top image: The Assembled Parties Cast (image supplied)