Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock star in Samuel D. Hunter's new work.
"Even by Metcalf’s lofty standards, this is one stunner of a performance. A beautiful play. In today’s American theater, it’s unique. It is a revelation."
Chicago Tribune
Chris Jones
"Critic’s Pick. The glorious Laurie Metcalf plays one of the funniest and most thoroughly human characters seen lately on a New York stage. One of the most entertaining, too. In Samuel D. Hunter’s keen-eyed and compassionate play, the riveting Metcalf rips into her role."
The New York Times
Laura Collins-Hughes
"Laurie Metcalf gives a performance of unvarnished, plain-spoken beauty. Her remarkably fine performance is flinty, funny, and savagely unsentimental. Little Bear Ridge Road is as moving as it is bruisingly truthful."
The Wall Street Journal
Charles Isherwood
"A jewel of a play. The brilliant Laurie Metcalf is in blazing form in a singularly beautiful piece that shifts almost imperceptibly from acerbic comedy to searing pathos. This is a gorgeous play. Its rewards are as immense as the Idaho night skies"
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
"A hard-hitting, hard-laughing show you leave wanting much more of. A rockstar of the New York stage, Laurie Metcalf is never less than nuclear. Uproariously funny and bruisingly honest"
New York Post
Joey Oleksinkski
Four-time Emmy® and two-time Tony Award® winner Laurie Metcalf returns to Broadway opposite Tony Award® nominee Micah Stock in Little Bear Ridge Road, the wry and piercing new play by Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale) directed by two-time Tony Award® winner Joe Mantello. This production marks Hunter’s Broadway debut and Metcalf and Mantello’s seventh collaboration.
Set on the remote edge of a small Idaho town, Little Bear Ridge Road centers on a razor-tongued aunt and her long-estranged nephew who find themselves suddenly back in each other’s lives—two lonely souls with a crumbling house to sell and a tangled history to unravel. Bitingly funny and quietly explosive, Little Bear Ridge Road lays bare our messy, human need to reach across voids for one another, even when it shakes us to the bone.