The Dining Room

This Pulitzer Prize-nominated comedy is set in the dining room, the central gathering place of a typical American household. The play is a mosaic of interrelated scenes that span a century of American life. Though the scenes are separate, they weave together a larger, moving picture of a shifting society. With a small ensemble of six actors taking on more than fifty distinct roles collectively—ranging from spoiled children to stern grandfathers—the play dissects family dynamics, holiday gatherings, affairs, and the fading traditions of the American upper-middle class.