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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

How I Learned to Drive

April 27, 2022
261 W 47th St, New York, NY 10036

When it was originally produced in 1997, by the Vineyard Theater, Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive received a review in The New York Times titled “A Pedophile Even Mother Could Love.” The show starred Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse, and it told the story of a family in which seduction is moving stealthily beneath the surface. The Times critic Ben Brantley called it “angry and compassionate; light-handed and devastating.” The play won that year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama. More than two decades later, How I Learned to Drive is finally receiving its Broadway premiere. Its two superb original stars are back in their roles as Li’L Bit and Uncle Peck, and getting rave reviews all over again. —Laura Jacobs