Greater Clements Off-Broadway - In Samuel D. Hunter's GREATER CLEMENTS, the once-proud mining town of Clements, Idaho is rapidly disintegrating. Theater Review: ‘Greater Clements,’ by Samuel D. Hunter at Lincoln Center, Is a Small-Town Drama Without the Town "Greater Clements," the latest play by Samuel D. Hunter, stars Judith Ivey as a woman in a mining town on the verge of collapse. Corporate Leaders Applaud Shen Yun’s Beautiful Stories of Integrity. As Maggie prepares to close one of the town’s last remaining businesses, a visitor arrives on her doorstep, resurrecting long-buried hope and shame rooted in her family’s past and the town’s history. Legacies of the past connect and collide throughout Samuel D. Hunter’s ambitious, multi-layered “Greater Clements,” now on view at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre. Twitter: @joxfeld.Email: jesse@nystagereview.com. December 9, 2019. About Greater Clements: The once-proud mining town of Clements, Idaho is rapidly disintegrating. Everything is broken. When we first meet Maggie, the smalltown matriarch played to perfection by Judith Ivey, she has just knocked over the display case containing her long-dead father’s pocketwatch, shattering the vitrine and cracking the watch’s crystal. The Epoch Times. Howard Miller takes a look at Greater Clements, at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center: If you are looking for cleanly structured realism in the theater, you may well be put off by Samuel D. Hunter's Greater Clements, opening tonight at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center. Lincoln Center Theater presents Greater Clements a New Play by Samuel D. Hunter at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.. Browse 200+ critical Greater Clements reviews & compare Greater Clements ticket prices. Judith Ivey as the owner of a mining museum in a struggling Idaho town and Andrew Garman as its sheriff in “Greater Clements.” Credit... Rachel Papo for The New York Times Discover Off Broadway shows you love at the price that’s right for you. He has also written about theater for Entertainment Weekly, New York magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Forward, The Times of London, and other publications. As Maggie prepares to close one of the town’s last remaining businesses, a visitor arrives on her doorstep, resurrecting long-buried hope and shame rooted in her family’s past and the town’s history. 10 January 2020. The playwright left his home state 20 years ago. About Greater Clements: The once-proud mining town of Clements, Idaho is rapidly disintegrating. Lincoln Center Theater presents Greater Clements a New Play by Samuel D. Hunter at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.. Judith Ivey and Edmund Donovan play a single mother and her troubled son in a dying Idaho mining town in MacArthur Fellowship recipient Samuel D. Hunter's elegiac new drama, 'Greater Clements.' While rehearsing his new play, “Greater Clements,” he drove through the lonesome landscapes that still inspire his work. Lincoln Center Theater is very excited to work with Sam Hunter again, and to produce GREATER CLEMENTS for the start of LCT’s 35th season. … Haley Sakamoto and Edmund Donovan in Greater Clements. ‘Greater Clements’: Theater Review. Jesse Oxfeld was the theater critic of The New York Observer from 2009 to 2014.