ASTORIA

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NEW YORK, NY — Theater for the New City presents the World Premiere of ASTORIA, a play by Richard Ploetz about one multi-generational family confronting the end of an era. During weekly dinners at his grandmother Helen’s longtime apartment, Michael, a writer, chronicles his family history in the form of a play. When Helen takes a fall, Michael must face the possibility of moving her into a nursing home. As he prepares for this transition, his estranged father, Walter, arrives, reopening old wounds and exposing competing versions of the family’s history. “ASTORIA is a ghost, a memory play,” says David Leeper, who plays the protagonist, Michael. The plot weaves time, as Michael recalls and reimagines the past, confronts an unknown future, and tries to manage the reality of the present.