The Obie Award-winning play You Got Older by Pulitzer Prize finalist Clare Barron will return Off-Broadway this winter starring Alia Shawkat (“Search Party,” Blink Twice) in a new production by Tony Award nominee and Obie Award winner Anne Kauffman, who also directed the play’s premiere. 

 

Joining Shawkat are Tony Award nominee Peter Friedman (Job) as Dad, Misha Brooks (The Best You Can) as Matthew, Caleb Joshua Eberhardt (Eurydice) as Mac, Spenser Granese (Marty Supreme) as Cowboy, Nadine Malouf (Queens) as Hannah, and Nina White (Kimberly Akimbo) as Jenny.

 

Produced by Cherry Lane Theatre and Matt Ross, performances of You Got Older will begin Thursday February 12, 2026, at the newly reopened Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street, NY), with an official opening set for Monday February 23, for a limited run through Sunday March 29, 2026.

After losing both her job and her boyfriend (comes with the territory when you're dating your boss), an unmoored and unsettled Mae (Alia Shawkat) returns to her small Washington hometown to take care of her ailing father. When she unexpectedly meets a mysterious stranger, she has the startling realization that maybe the intimacy she’s been craving is easier with the unknown, rather than with her own family. Blending reality and fantasy, You Got Older reunites Obie Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Clare Barron with Obie Award winner and Tony Award nominee Anne Kauffman for this tender and darkly comic play about family, illness, and cowboys — and how to remain standing when everything you know comes crashing down around you.