Bakersfield Mist

Inspired by a true story, the play follows Maude, a blunt, funny, down-on-her-luck bartender living in a Bakersfield, California trailer park, who is convinced the painting she bought at a thrift store for a few dollars is a lost Jackson Pollock. When Lionel, a renowned and thoroughly buttoned-up New York art authenticator, arrives to examine it, a simple yes-or-no verdict becomes a sharp, often hilarious, and unexpectedly moving argument about class, expertise, art, and who gets to decide what's real. Equal parts comedy and drama, it is a trash versus-treasure yarn for an age when it is harder than ever to know what's genuine.

Content Disclosures:

Mature language, depictions of suicide