The final event at the Drama Book Shop, the New York haven for theater insiders and fans, was, in the end, quite modest. It wasn’t a big party or a series of speeches to remember the beloved store, which on Sunday will permanently close its doors on West 40th Street. Rather, it was a reading: In the small basement theater on Friday evening, two playwrights, Annie Baker and Amy Herzog, read from and discussed their latest published works. There was a scene from Ms. Herzog’s “Mary Jane,” a mysteriously profound tale of motherhood and child illness, and two monologues from Ms. Baker’s “The Antipodes,” a surreal piece about storytelling in which characters claim there are seven types of stories in the world — or 36, or 19, or 10, depending on whom you ask.

Source: New York Times January 20, 2019 17:43 UTC