NORTHVILLE, MI (September 4, 2024) – Tipping Point Theatre (TPT) opens its 17^th theatrical season on September 25, 2024, with the Michigan premiere production of Bess Wohl’s hilarious, Tony® Award nominated Grand Horizons. “This season we ask ‘what makes a family?’ Is it nature, circumstance, or something we create? How do we move forward when faced with exciting new choices, obstacles, happenstance, grief and inevitability?” asks TPT Producing Artistic Director, Julia Glander. Grand Horizons is this season’s first foray into answering this complicated question. Bess Wohl’s play is a hilarious and honest take on love and the wisdom that may or may not come with age. “Grand Horizons is a sweet, sweet delight … [it’s] extremely funny while also asking a few tart questions about comedy itself” (New York Magazine).

Bill and Nancy have recently marked fifty years of marriage and settled comfortably in their new home at Grand Horizons, a senior living community. Their lives are structured in marital unison until one evening, Nancy announces she wants a divorce. Bill says okay. Their two adult sons are shocked as they question everything they thought was true in their lives and struggle to make sense of this unexpected news.

“Playwright Bess Wohl has written a simultaneously fun and touching story about family—expectations, assumptions and surprises” states Grand Horizons Director, Karen Sheridan. “The characters are so truly written and human, that this feels like a look-in on anyone’s adult family. The humor in perceiving who is in charge makes this a light confection about rediscovering those we thought we knew. As we stride further into the 21st century, we learn more about the usefulness of speaking up and the value in listening.”

“In the fall of 2022, as I was just starting my first season as producing artistic director at TPT and reading a lot of new plays, one that stuck with me was Grand Horizons — a well-written, smart, family comedy” states Glander. “This play opened on Broadway in January of 2020 and closed in March of 2020. Of course, we all know what happened that month; tough times for theatre and the world. We survived and are now ready to thrive. Our 2024-25 Season 17 opener is about a family finding its way forward. It’s funny, insightful, honest, hopeful, and I’ll say it again…FUNNY.”

TPT’s production of vibrant, culturally-significant, captivating theatrical offerings rank among some of the best professional performances offered in the state of Michigan.