‘Mary Jane’ Broadway Review: Rachel McAdams Goes From Mom to Hero to Saint

The actor makes her Broadway debut in Amy Herzog’s play about a parent who cares for a child with severe challenges

"Mary Jane" on Broadway
"Mary Jane" on Broadway

Amy Herzog is best known on Broadway for paring-down plays written by Henrik Ibsen. Her version of “An Enemy of the People,” starring Jeremy Strong, now runs on Broadway, and last season her version of “A Doll’s House” starred Jessica Chastain.

Herzog also writes totally original plays not based on Scandinavian classics, and one of those, “Mary Jane,” won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 2018. On Tuesday, that play had its Broadway premiere at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, and stars Rachel McAdams in her Broadway debut.

There are plays that move you because they strike so close to your own life experience.

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