Richard Nelson’s four-play cycle centers around a liberal American family living in Rhinebeck, New York. Each installment premiered on the night of a significant moment in American politics – That Hopey Changey Thing on the eve of the 2010 midterm elections; Sweet and Sad on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks; Sorry on election night in 2012 and Regular Singing on the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Theater-goers witness the Apple family parsing the political landscape around each event in real time, against the backdrop of what they quickly realize is an extraordinarily complicated family dynamic.