From now through April 23rd, the Woolly Mammoth Theatre is hosting one of the most celebrated productions to emerge from the off-Broadway scene in years. The play is Pike St., a story about family, hope, community and precarity in Puerto Rican communities on the Lower East Side. Nilaja Sun, a New York City public school teacher and playwright wrote and stars in this one-woman show.

The narrative centers on Evelyn, a single mother struggling to care for her disabled teenage daughter, but Sun’s performance also evokes multiple characters, including Evelyn’s war-veteran brother, cranky father, and idiosyncratic elderly neighbor. This, critics say, provides, a real sense of a neighborhood, all filtered through Sun’s performance and stage veteran Ron Russell’s steady direction. Moving from laugh-out-loud humor to deep pathos and sudden poignancy, Pike St is a unique theater experience.

The show runs 85 minutes, with no intermission. Tickets start at $20.

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