Dying City

Christopher Shinn’s Pulitzer Prize-finalist drama 'Dying City' arrived Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in 2007, standing as an acclaimed, deeply moving masterwork of the New York season. The claustrophobic psychological narrative unfolds inside a sleek Manhattan apartment one year after the tragic military death of a young soldier in the Iraq War, tracking his grieving widow, Kelly, whose quiet isolation is disrupted one night by the uninvited arrival of his identical twin brother, a hyper-articulate actor fleeing a relationship crisis, unpeeling layers of shared trauma. Directed by Shinn himself, the intense two-person production starred Pablo Schreiber and Rebecca Brooksher.