About the Show

A father and a son take road trips at two different points in history, but still find one another.

A Haitian immigrant embarks on a journey from Miami to California on a unique road trip. Years later, his son makes the same trip, but in reverse. On the road, the lines of time blur, and they both finally find common ground and establish a connection that they hadn't found for decades.

Written by acclaimed playwright Jeff Augustin, and with folk music by The Bengsons, Where the Mountain Meets the Sea tells a story of longing, family and legacy.

Critic Reviews (10)

" 'Where the Mountain Meets the Sea' feels like a kind of formal experiment, combining spoken text, live music and, occasionally, freestyle movement to capture the nomadic experience of building a life without a homeland."
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"You might walk out of 'Where the Mountain Meets the Sea' wanting to take a road trip, or call your dad, or listen to more folk music. One guarantee is that you won't leave this show feeling nothing."
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"Simple and heartfelt, Where the Mountain Meets the Sea is likely to resonate deeply with some audience members...I could feel this play's expression of grief and regret in my bones."
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"With its low-key retelling of two unremarkable lives, and its haphazard monologue-song-monologue format, 'Where the Mountain Meets the Sea'–a title, by the way, that's never explained–resolutely fails to stick to the bones."
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A touching portrait of a father and his alienated son unfolds in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s "Where the Mountain Meets the Sea" by Jeff Augustin, directed by Joshua Kahan Brody. ... "When the Mountain Meets the Sea" is not only about two different people, but two different time periods. Jean exists in memory while Jonah’s journey is to cross the country, retrieve Jean’s ashes and spread them over Haiti.
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Once again this season, a writer with a gift for language has crafted a play that is essentially a work of literature, gussied up for the stage with creative design, music, and direction. Dialogue and conflict are replaced by first-person monologue and reflection, and, except momentarily, there’s no actual character interaction.
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"As the mountains of America meet the deep blue Haitian sea, we are reminded that sometimes we need to turn around, hold ourselves open, and look back in order to understand more clearly who we truly are."
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"If 'Where the Mountain Meets the Sea' starts slow and meanders a bit, and if the score could use just one or two more upbeat numbers, a devastatingly gorgeous finish more than makes up for these minor errors in this glowing gem of a show."
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