A Woman Among Women by Playwriting alum Julia May Jonas ’12 was recently selected as a New York Times Critic’s Pick. The show's debut on October 15, 2024, opened The Bushwick Starr’s new location at 419 Eldert Street.
A Woman Among Women is a revision of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, which centers a matriarch, Cleo, and her seemingly robust community of women in Massachusetts. The play is one of Jonas’s “All Long True American Stories” five-part cycle that reimagines canonical plays written by and about men.
In A Woman Among Women, Jonas plays with more than gender. The production features a dark, off-beat musical number called “Shades of Death Road.” Its set and lawn-chair seating arrangement is dramatically reorganized for the story’s denouement.
New York Times’ theatre critic Jesse Green praised the play, calling it a “rare thing onstage: a fresh story freshly told.”
A Woman Among Women was planned to end its run on November 10, but its performances were extended through November 17.
Julia May Jonas ’12 is a writer and founder of the theater company Nellie Tinder. Her recent plays include Your Own Personal Exegesis (LCT3) and Problems Between Sisters (Studio Theatre, Washington, DC). Her novel, Vladimir, a redux of Nabokov’s Lolita, was published in 2022 and garnered critical acclaim from The New York Times, NPR, TIME Magazine, and New York Magazine, among others.
