Collected Stories by Donald Margulies.

Collected Stories is about a respected short story writer and teacher in her mid-fifties, Ruth Steiner (Cayle Chernin), who has carved out a comfortable life for herself in a Greenwich Village apartment that she has occupied for decades. Lisa Morrison (Erin Mackinnon) is a callow yet talented young graduate student and aspiring writer, a child of suburban privilege when she meets Ruth and offers to become her assistant. Over six years, in as many scenes, Collected Stories eavesdrops on Ruth and Lisa as their relationship evolves (from mentor/protégée to loving friends to adversaries) and ultimately disintegrates-touching on age, artistic license and betrayal.

“Collected Stories is a solid production directed by Sasha Wentges with two fine performances by Erin Mackinnon and Cayle Chernin and some great melancholy jazz added to the atmosphere by saxophonist Daniel Jamieson.” - Scenechanges.com

Critics' Pick “Write stuff: Donald Margulies’s two-hander is heavy on the quips, but it authentically captures the literary life.” - Now Magazine

“Margulies’s best play to date. Clever and sensitively written. Poignant and provocative.” - The New York Post

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“The sensation is not unlike what happens when you listen to an opera in which the voices capture ineffable shades of feeling that go way beyond the libretto.” - Ben Brantley, New York Times

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“Bracingly smart...A thoughtful and many layered exploration of the relationship between a short story specialist in the autumn of her career and an anxious, bright, young thing ready to storm the book world barricades. Like the best fiction, in drama or prose, Margulies’s Collected Stories captures much of the nagging mysteriousness, the intriguing incompleteness of life.” - Variety