(WESTFIELD, NJ) -- Westfield Community Players presents Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies across three weekends from January 10-24, 2026. The play focuses on Sarah and James, a photojournalist and a foreign correspondent trying to find happiness in a world that seems to have gone crazy.
After barely surviving a bomb blast in Iraq, photojournalist Sarah Goodwin finds herself caught in a tug of war between her career and the quiet of domestic life. Returning home into the care of her long-time lover, James, Sarah is caught off-guard by his desire for family and by the simple domestic life pursued by Richard, her editor, and his much younger girlfriend, Mandy.
This Broadway-hit play from Pulitizer Prize-winner Donald Margulies is a witty, intelligent look at what happens when ordinary life is refracted through the lens of war.
Directed by Ed Faver, the cast includes Alicia Harabin (Sarah Goodwin), Kirk White (James Dodd), Stephen Mennella (Richard Ehrlich), and Stephanie Bradli (Mandy Bloom). The show is produced by Cass Cochrane.
Performances take place January 10, 17, 23, 24 at 8:00pm; and 2:00pm matinees on January 11 & 18. Tickets are available for purchase online. Westfield Community Players is located at 1000 North Avenue West in Westfield, New Jersey. CONTENT ADVISORY: Mature themes & language.
“Mr. Margulies is gifted at creating complex characters through wholly natural interaction, allowing the emotional layers, the long histories, the hidden kernels of conflict to emerge organically. Throughout, his dialogue crackles with bright wit and intelligence. Although Time Stands Still is deceptively modest, consisting of a handful of conversations among just four characters, the range of feeling it explores is wide and deep.” —The New York Times.
“Can you be a dispassionate, uninvolved observer of horrific events, recording them for posterity and still keep a sense of right and wrong, not to mention your sanity? It’s one of several questions getting a workout in Time Stands Still…Insightful writing, the work is smart, stylish, timely and layered with an intriguing seriousness that inspires discussion after the curtain comes down—a rarity these days.” —Associated Press.
“Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still compellingly demonstrates what a master playwright can do with great economy and efficiency…A rare play that encompasses universal issues and personal problems with equal compassionate insight. A splendid theatrical experience culminates in the author’s taking no sides and providing no easy answers. What we get is the assiduously impartial, clarifying confrontation of the existential dilemmas that confront all of us.” —Bloomberg.
“A solid play—taut and well-constructed, with hardly a single detail extraneous.” —Time Out New York.
Westfield Community Players (WCP), founded in 1934, has brought more than 300 comedies, dramas, musicals and mysteries to life on our stage. All productions are presented in their own 150 seat theater on the corner of Edgewood Avenue and North Avenue West in Westfield. With their productions, they continue to be part of the active cultural scene in Westfield and surrounding communities.
