Art is the great decoder of unintelligible worlds like old age. In psychology we call this decoding ‘sensemaking’ and the plays about aging in this splendid article are sensemaking at its finest. As important, they give old age a humanizing voice that is neither pathetic or grandiose. As their stories make clear, we are all just pilgrims on the bus trying to find our way home…
Aging Takes Center Stage On and Off Broadway: 4 plays explore unsettling truths about growing older