Theresa Rebeck Doubles Down With Two New Plays On and Off Broadway

Observer: In 2007, in The New York Times, Theresa Rebeck revealed the secret ingredients of all her plays: “Betrayal and treason and poor behavior. A lot of poor behavior.” Sixteen years later, those elements are present and accounted for, boiling and bubbling, in both of the new plays that Rebeck has just brought to New York. I Need That—Rebeck’s Broadway entry, which opens Nov. 2 at Roundabout’s American Airlines Theater—concerns an obsessive pack rat lost in his own possessions. And in Dig, which Primary Stages is presenting at Off-Broadway’s 59 East 59 Theaters, the poor behavior centers around the anguished fallout that follows the death of a young child left by a forgetful parent in the backseat of an overheated car.