A moving look at life, loyalty and America's pastime, this touching drama unfolds during a season of baseball with the New York Mammoths, focusing on the friendship between a world-wise star pitcher and a country boy catcher struggling to cope with devastating news.
Selected Audio Clip from Bang the Drum Slowly
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"Eric Simonson's beautifully imagined adaptation of Mark Harris' novel is in many ways the stage equivalent of a lusciously layered and moving work of prose literature, a marvel of simplicity in the depth of its feeling, while at the same time a profound reverie on the losing human contest against mortality…confronts death with complexity, never settling for easy sentiment, and is all the more stirring as a result."
—Chicago Tribune.
"There's no denying the humor and power of the work, nor the audience's three-hankie response…a fascinating textural portrait of our national image."
—Boston Herald.
"Bang the Drum Slowly has its heart in the right place... a quiet meditation on the preciousness of life... a genuine and heartfelt piece."
—Talkin Broadway