Hampstead Theatre will stage the European premiere of Richard Greenberg’s “The Assembled Parties” on its Main Stage, with Jennifer Westfeldt making her London theatre debut opposite the previously announced Tracy-Ann Oberman. Blanche McIntyre directs.
Westfeldt—actor, writer and director—takes the role of Julie Bascov, a former film actor at the centre of Greenberg’s New York family drama. Her screen work includes co-writing and starring in “Kissing Jessica Stein” and writing, directing and starring in “Friends With Kids.” On stage, she has appeared in “Wonderful Town,” for which she received a Tony Award nomination. Oberman, known for a wide range of stage and screen roles, joins her in the lead company following recent work in “The Merchant of Venice 1936.”
The cast also features Daniel Abelson, Julia Kass, David Kennedy, Alexander Marks (in his professional stage debut) and Sam Marks, with Rex Bamber and Maxwell Rich sharing the role of Timmy. The creative team comprises James Cotterill (set and costumes), Malcolm Rippeth (lighting) and John Leonard (sound), with casting by Anna Cooper.
Set within a Central Park West apartment, the play observes two holiday gatherings separated by two decades. The first act introduces Julie, her husband Ben, their son, and his Harvard classmate Jeff; the second returns to the apartment twenty years later, tracing how earlier choices, loyalties and omissions have reshaped the household. Greenberg uses a single setting and a tight ensemble to examine aspiration, kinship and social inheritance in late-20th-century New York.
McIntyre approaches the production as an intimate study of language and time, treating the apartment itself as a dramatic engine—its rooms, thresholds and sightlines charting shifts in power and attachment—while allowing the dialogue’s quiet modulations to carry the play’s emotional turns. The Hampstead presentation marks the work’s first outing in Europe.
Tickets are available via Hampstead Theatre’s box office and website.
Venue and dates: Hampstead Theatre, Main Stage — 17 October to 22 November 2025; press night 23 October 2025.
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