"Visiting Mr. Green" stars veteran actor Don Edelman as Mr. Green, an elderly, grumpy, devoutly Jewish widower who wanders into New York City traffic, nearly being hit by the car of 29-year-old finance executive Ross Gardiner (played by Krystopher Perry). As a community service sentence, Gardiner is ordered to assist Mr. Green, visiting him weekly. What starts as a comedy about two men who do not want to be in the same room together becomes a gripping, moving drama as they get to know each other, opening old wounds they’ve been hiding and nursing for years.

Mr. Green is Baron’s best-known play, earning numerous awards around the world, including the KulturPreis Europa, of which Baron was the first playwright and the first American recipient.

“Families are the same everywhere,” explains the playwright. “Everyone knows someone like Mr. Green and everyone knows someone like Ross. Their specific characteristics make the story interesting, but their humanness and the struggles they’re each going through, make the play personal for almost everyone.”