It relates the story of a Jewish family living on the Upper West Side of New York City over a twenty-year period, from 1980 to 2000.
Directed by Lynne Meadow the play features Judith Light as Faye, Jessica Hecht as Julie, Jake Silbermann as Scotty/Tim Vascov, Jonathan Walker as Ben and Mark Blum as Mort.
They gather at the large and luxurious Upper West Side (New York) apartment of Julie, a former teen movie star and her wealthy husband Ben.
Those present are Julie, who has a fatal illness; Faye, now no longer taking medications; and Jeff, returned from a successful law job in Chicago.
Ben Brantley, in his review in The New York Times, called the play "charming", writing " It is also smart, sad and so impossibly well-spoken you may feel like giving up on conversation.... is an elegy to a breed of woman, a style of living and a genre of theater of which only vestiges remain in frantic, self-promoting New York.