Clare Barron (‘08)’s ‘You Got Older’ Review in the NY Times

February 26, 2026

In an unassuming hopscotch of mostly quiet scenes, life flourishes and slips away. A 20-something woman, at a loose end, moves to Washington State to hang out with her father — and her life’s orbit goes into a long retrograde. Dad grows a green pepper; Dad gets cancer treatment. But she does nothing. Has going back turned her into a kid again? No chance. Even at home, you get older.

The return of Clare Barron’s “You Got Older,” the playwright’s gorgeously precise 2014 drama now being revived at the Cherry Lane Theater, can feel like remission — a 100-minute suspension in an art form otherwise defined by choice and action. 

Read full review on the New York Times.

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