About the Show

A moving look at memory, loss, and AI, Marjorie Prime asks what it means to truly remember.

What would you say to a loved one if you had the chance to see them again—only as a more attentive version of who they were? In Marjorie Prime, Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison reimagines the family drama through a deeply poignant and subtly humorous lens. Directed by Tony Award® nominee Anne Kauffman (Mary Jane), this thought-provoking play explores themes of aging, artificial intelligence, memory, and the complexities of human connection. As the boundaries between real and remembered lives begin to blur, Marjorie Prime offers a powerful meditation on love, loss, and the stories we leave behind.

Critic Reviews (13)

"The final scene, which makes a superb and very cinematic use of a stage turntable, brings us a family that is whole again."
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"For all its clairvoyance and foresight about technology, Marjorie Prime’s most potent superpowers are its sensitivity and tenderness."
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"Marjorie Prime is an interesting artificial-companion piece to Broadway’s other droid show...In Harrison’s script and under Kauffman’s direction, a sense of that evolution creeps up on you."
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"Harrison is a formidable craftsman and Marjorie Prime is built very well, but in a way it resembles one of its own artificial humans"
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"People without people’s problems, humor or original insights—which is to say, hardly human at all."
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"The play is far more disquieting, merely as a consequence of the passage of time. In fact, I can’t ever remember ever seeing a play whose impact felt so utterly different a decade later."
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"True memory is human, imbued with love and grief. The rest is just a simulation."
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"Especially impressive is how director Anne Kauffman has taken three of New York’s best-known actors with giant personalities... and made them into one of Broadway’s best and most natural ensembles."
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