Mother's Brief Affair premiered at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa in April 2009. Directed by Pam MacKinnon, the cast featured Jenny O'Hara, Matthew Arkin, Arye Gross and Marin Hinkle. This was a commission from the SCRT. The play opened on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club, on December 28, 2015 (previews), and officially on January 20, 2016, starring Linda Lavin. His play The Babylon Line premiered Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on November 10, 2016, in previews, and officially on December 5. Directed by Terry Kinney, the cast features Josh Radnor as a writing teacher and Elizabeth Reaser as his student. The play was first performed at New York Stage and Film & Vassar College's Powerhouse Theater in June and July 2014, starring Radnor. Style The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights describes Greenberg's "most prominent" interest as history "and (also) the past". He has a strong "tendency to draw on historical characters or events——the Lost Generation, the Collyer Brothers, the New York Yankees" as sources for his material. He is said to have a "witty use of language." Awards and nominations Tony Award, Best Play The Assembled Parties, 2013 - nominee Take Me Out, 2003 - winner New York Drama Critics Circle Award, Best American Play Take Me Out, 2003 Three Days of Rain, 1998 - Runner up Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play The Assembled Parties, 2013 - nominee Take Me Out, 2003 - winner Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play Take Me Out, 2003 - winner The Dazzle, 2002 - nominee Drama League Award, Best Play, Take Me Out, 2003 Outer Critics Circle Award The Dazzle, 2002 Outstanding Off-Broadway Play - winner John Gassner Award, The Dazzle, 2002 - nominee Oppenheimer Award, Best New Playwright (The Bloodletters, 1985) Molly Kazan Playwriting Award PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career (1998) Pulitzer Prize for Drama Three Days of Rain, 1998 - Finalist Take Me Out, 2003 - Finalist Works Theatre 1984: The Bloodletters, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York, NY, 1984. 1985: Life Under Water, Marathon '85 Series. Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York, NY, 1985. 1986: Vanishing Act, Marathon '86 Series. Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York, NY, 1986. 1987: The Author's Voice & Imagining Brad, Greenwich House, New York, NY, 1999. 1987: The Hunger Artist (based on stories and letters by Franz Kafka),