What Are Reviews For You Got Older Off-Broadway?

Anne Kauffman again directs Clare Barron's Obie-winning play, starring Alia Shawkat.

February 24, 2026 By Margaret Hall

Paul Cooper and Alia Shawkat in *You Got Older* (Marc J. Franklin)

Clare Barron's Obie-winning play You Got Older opened Off-Broadway February 23, and the reviews are rolling in. The show plays the newly reopened Cherry Lane Theatre for an already-extended limited engagement through April 12. Previews began February 12.

Alia Shawkat (Search Party, Blink Twice, Arrested Development) stars as Mae with Tony nominee Peter Friedman (Job) as Dad, Misha Brooks (The Best You Can) as Matthew, Caleb Joshua Eberhardt (Eurydice) as Mac, Paul Cooper as Cowboy, Nadine Malouf (Queens) as Hannah, and Nina White (Kimberly Akimbo) as Jenny.

Understudies include Paul Cooper (Buried Child), Jonah O’Hara-David (UntitledKenUrbanProject), Carl Palmer (Coal Country), and Nicole Rodenburg (Usual Girls).

The play follows Mae (Shawkat), who returns to her Washington hometown to take care of her ailing father after losing her job and her boyfriend. When she unexpectedly meets a mysterious stranger, she has the startling realization that maybe the intimacy she’s been craving is easier with the unknown, rather than with her own family.

Read the reviews below.

1 Minute Critic (Emily Chackerian)

New York Stage Review (Frank Scheck)

New York Theater (Jonathan Mandell)

New York Theatre Guide (Allison Considine)

The New York Times (Helen Shaw)

TimeOut (Adam Feldman)

The Wrap (Robert Hofler)*

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Playbill will continue to update this list as reviews come in.

The new production is directed by Tony nominee and Obie winner Anne Kauffman, who also directed the play’s premiere. The Cherry Lane production features scenic design by Tony nominee Arnulfo Maldonado (Buena Vista Social Club), costume design by Obie winner Ásta Bennie Hostetter (John), lighting design by Tony nominee Isabella Byrd (Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club), and sound design and composition by Tony nominee Daniel Kluger (Oh, Mary!). Taylor Williams is the casting director, and Aura Michelle is the production stage manager.

You Got Older received its world premiere in 2014 at HERE Arts Center, presented by Page 73, under the direction of Kauffman.

Cherry Lane Theatre and Matt Ross are producing with Crooked Letter, Joe Hetterly, Eric Kuhn and Adam Rodner, Concord Theatricals, Amplify Pictures/Gregory Hosono, Michael Ngo/Salem Productions, and David Thomas Tao/Rosemary and Kenneth Willman.

Visit CherryLaneTheatre.org.