From the Hartford Courant, Newsday, New York Times Artsbeat blog, Associated Press:

Lisa Loomer’s new play “Distracted,” which opened off-Broadway this week, explores the quandary of a modern mother faced with the possibility that her son might have attention deficit  disorder (ADD).

Played by “Sex and the City”‘s Cynthia Nixon, “Mama” attempts to balance the conflicting advice she’s getting from all sides. Loomer says she felt compelled to write the play based on her own experience as a mother in Los Angeles.

“The play is basically the mother’s journey. She’s the one who does the changing in this play, not the child. She goes from someone who believes that if you ask the right questions, if you go to the right experts you can fix things. That position is eventually challenged in the play. This may not be something she can fix. It may not even be something that needs to be fixed. What she learns is to think less in terms of the problem child and be more present with the child, with who he is.”

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