‘Mary Jane’ review: Rachel McAdams is a strong mom in teary Broadway play
nypost.comRachel McAdams brings an instantly heartbreaking quality to her performance in “Mary Jane”: Her steadfast optimism.Writer Amy Herzog’s affecting play, which opened Tuesday night on Broadway at the Samuel J.
Friedman Theatre, is about a single mother whose 2-year-old son Alex is chronically ill. The poor kid, who the audience never fully sees, spends most of the drama in another room in bed, attached to monitors and oxygen tanks that beep and hiss.
At this point in his young life, he can’t even control his head yet.His mom Mary Jane’s (McAdams) entire existence, with nary a break to relax, revolves around the boy’s care.
Nurses, friends and her superintendent stop by to talk and support her. And they help, of course, but they don’t change the hard reality of the situation.
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