The Babylon Line
An electrifying new play by Tony Award–winning playwright Richard Greenberg, The Babylon Line opens at Lincoln Center Theater on December 5, 2016.
A thirty-eight-year-old writer from Greenwich Village, Aaron is painfully aware of his failures as an artist when his desperate need for a job forces him to commute along the Babylon Line to Levittown to teach. What awaits him is a classroom of varyingly unwilling students, some who attend because their preferred course was full, others who are attentive enough but sit silently at their desks—and all of whom have yet to set pen to paper. Over the course of the semester, Aaron’s adult pupils write increasingly more honest life accounts and stories, and cracks begin to appear in…
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November 8, 2016Richard Greenberg has written two dozen plays, including the Tony Award–winning Take Me Out, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, as was his play Three Days of Rain. He is the winner of Newsday’sGeorge Oppenheimer Award for Best New Playwright and the PEN/Laura Pels Award for a playwright in mid-career. He lives in New York City.