(Neil Pepe directs.)
(For interested parties, a muscly Driver is in boxer briefs within 10 minutes of curtain.)
But she soon has a rival.

Adam Driver as Strings McCrane in Kenneth Lonergan’sHold On to Me Darling, on at New York’s Lucille Lortel Theatre through December 22.
At the funeral, McCrane runs into Essie, a cousin of indeterminate distance, and sparks fly.
(We are in Tennessee now, after all.)
They naturally have a drunken one-night stand.

Heather Burns (as Nancy) and Driver inHold On to Me Darling
(Adam Driver dealing with grief and existential dread does not immediately evoke comedy.)
One cant help but fall to pieces.

Driver and Adelaide Clemens (as Essie) inHold On to Me Darling

Keith Nobbs as Jimmy inHold On to Me Darling