Rheology tickets

Get Rheology tickets when they go on sale on New York Theatre Guide to see the newest play from Pulitzer Prize finalist Shayok Misha Chowdhury (Public Obscenities). This show is one of a kind: in Rheology off Broadway, Chowdhury performs alongside his mother, the scientist Bulbul Chakraborty, who was the first tenured woman physicist at Brandeis University. A live experiment dealing with grief, sad, and mother-son love, Rheology in New York is an experience not to miss.

Playwright and director Chowdhury premiered Rheology at The Bushwick Starr, and now Playwrights Horizons brings The Bushwick Starr, HERE Arts Center, and Ma-Yi Theater Company production to 42nd Street as part of its Redux Series, which remounts acclaimed productions for a second life. Rheology, performed in Bangla and English, stars Chowdhury and his mother as the two stage the latter’s death nightly, in preparation for eventual, inevitable grief.

Chowdhury is an Obie Award winner for his play Public Obscenities, which was a New York Times Critic's Pick. That paper also celebrated Rheology, calling it a “delight, with a lively structure that’s a mishmash of scientific lectures, traditionally staged scenes and meditations on how the two have grown closer by seeing each other passionately pursue their work."

Additionally, Exeunt wrote, “a substantial portion of it would stand on its own as a captivating physics lecture…but the beating heart of Rheology is less its intellectual rigor than its tenderness — a tender love between mother and son; a tender pride and respect in each for the other’s passionate work; a tender joy in getting to work together — and the way it uses the language of both theater and science to express this love.”

A boundary-pushing collaboration in which a writer son and his scientist mother challenge each other to a high-stakes experiment, Rheology is a unique show not to be missed.