BROADWAY REVIEW: Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Cost of Living’ explores the power struggles in unlikely relationships
I think that’s part of the meaning of “Cost of Living,” Martyna Majok’s resonant, prismatic, Pulitzer-Prize-winning play from 2018 which has now landed on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in a Manhattan Theatre Club production starring David Zayas, best known for playing Angel Batista on the long-running “Dexter.”
We accumulate pain as we go, Majok is saying. The day-to-day of life costs all of us. The more days we’ve lived, the bigger the price paid.
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