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Fall 2026 - RABBIT HOLE by David Lindsay-Abaire

• Directed by Eric Thibodeaux-Thompson
• Scenic Design and Technical Direction by Dathan Powell

• Winner! 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
• Winner! 2006 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Cynthia Nixon)
• Nominee: Five 2006 Tony Awards, including Best Play

The Corbetts are a happy suburban couple whose lives are changed forever when their young son Danny is killed in an accident. Eight months on, Becca wants to start afresh in a new home and give away their son’s possessions, but Howie wants to keep the memory of Danny alive. Can they ever find their way back to each other? David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, filled with distinctive wit and grace, charts the path from grief to its antidotes – love and hope. --From Concord Theatricals online

HISTORY

Rabbit Hole premiered on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre on January 12, 2006. It was produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club. Directed by Daniel Sullivan, the production featured Cynthia Nixon, Mary Catherine Garrison, John Slattery, Tyne Daly and John Gallagher, Jr.

A transcendent and deeply affecting new play, which shifts perfectly from hilarity to grief.

 Entertainment Weekly

David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a drama that’s not just a departure but a revelation – an intensely emotional examination of grief, laced with wit, insightfulness, compassion and searing honesty.

Variety

Rabbit Hole presents a tragedy and its consequences with utter candor, and without sentimentality. The dialogue is most impressive for capturing the awkwardness and pain of thinking people faced with an unthinkable situation – and eventually, their capacity for survival, and even hope.

USA Today

With Rabbit Hole, David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted the most serious, simply told work of his career – a painstakingly beautiful, dramatically resourceful, exquisitely human new play.

Backstage

The highest praise to playwright David Lindsay-Abaire! Rabbit Hole is an entertaining and satisfying play – it might just be the year’s best.

Show Business Weekly