You Got Older

<p><i>Winner of the 2015 Obie Award for Playwriting, nominee for the 2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play, and a finalist for the 2015 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.</i><br><br>After losing both her job and her boyfriend, an unmoored and unsettled Mae returns to her small Washington hometown to take care of her ailing father. <br><br>When she 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. <br><br>Blending reality and fantasy, <i>You Got Older </i>is Obie Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Clare Barron''s tender and darkly comic play about family, illness, and cowboys — and how to remain standing when everything you know comes crashing down around you.<br><br>This revised edition was published to coincide with the off-Broadway revival at the Cherry Lane Theatre directed by Anne Kauffman and starring Alia Shawkat in February 2026.</p>