About This Show

Death in the Family is a series of five darkly (comedic) whimsical two-hander vignettes about the effects of death, grief, and trauma: whether it’s two preteens pondering the ramifications of being born, brothers who wonder if anyone else is as lonely, if and when revenge is justified, what happens to the people left behind after violence, or how older and younger siblings experience parents in different ways, Death in the Family let’s us in on the conversations we may never get to have. 

Content warning: violence (depictions), suicide (mentioned), sexual violence (mentioned), abuse (mentioned), pedophilia (mentioned).

This Dixon Place production of Death in the Family is made possible, in part, with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts w/the support of the Office of the Governor & the NY State Legislature, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, and the Shubert Foundation.