Lunar Eclipse tickets

Get Lunar Eclipse tickets and see theatre icons Reed Birney and Lisa Emery star in a starry play: a celestial event approaches, and a married couple must either rise to its occasion or stay grounded on earth. A riveting and emotional new work from Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies (Dinner With Friends, Sight Unseen, Collected Stories), Lunar Eclipse plays at The Pershing Square Signature Center in a Second Stage Theater production, starting in May and playing for a limited run.

“Maybe forgetting yourself once in a while is a good thing,” a character says in this stirring New York premiere. Experience Lunar Eclipse off Broadway for a poetic and rich play directed by Kate Whoriskey (Sweat) about the fragility of memory and power of time.

Somewhere on a Kentucky farm, long-married couple George (Birney) and Em (Emery) stare up at the night sky. They sip bourbon and reflect on their dogs, children, and land. As the stars come out and the drinks empty, however, they realize they know less about one another than they once thought, undoing the fabric of their relationship as it approaches its later days. A funny, touching, and universal play about love, Lunar Eclipse depicts a specific couple grappling with its identity beneath the cosmos as they look forward to the time they have left.

Obie winner Emery (Ozark) joins this new play, which Birney (Mass) appeared in in Massachusetts in 2023. “The play benefits immensely from the detail and discipline of Birney’s superb performance,” The New York Times wrote. “He doesn’t so much produce emotions as shed them. After nearly 50 years onstage, that’s no surprise.”

Now, see two stars collide in this Second Stage play.