Baby Shower Katie

Show Info

Tickets will go on sale to Primary Stages Flex Pass holders on Tuesday, August 4.
Tickets will go on sale to 59E59 Members on Tuesday, August 18.
Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Tuesday, August 25.

By Beth Hyland
Directed by Jaki Bradle

Best friends Rebecca and Hannah are at a crossroads: Rebecca desperately wants a child, while Hannah can't imagine anything worse. 

Across four baby showers (thrown for three different women named Katie), Rebecca and Hannah are forced to confront their divergent dreams, the absurd expectations placed on mothers, and the terror and uncertainty that can surround pregnancy. Beth Hyland's irreverent new comedy asks what happens when the life we have been told to want no longer fits the person we are becoming.

Baby Shower Katie is a co-world premiere with Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland.

Baby Shower Katie was developed at the Primary Stages Liff Lab, a new play development program named by The Sulzberger Rolfe Foundation in memory of legendary theater agent Samuel “Biff” Liff. 

Lead support for Baby Shower Katie is provided by The Andrew Leynse Legacy Project at Primary Stages.

Additional production support provided by the Anna L. Weissberger Foundation. 

Major season support provided by The Howard Gilman Foundation, the A.R. Gurney Playwrights Fund, The SHS Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Please join us for post-show talkbacks after the following performances:

• Thursday, March 18 at 7:00PM 
• Sunday, April 4 at 2:00PM