There hasn’t been such an unwanted, colossally boring houseguest since Richard Dreyfus showed up on Marsha Mason’s doorstep in Neil Simon’s 1977 comedy, “The Goodbye Girl.”
Lee Tergesen (“Oz”) plays the noisy, messy bad brother Billy in Donald Margulies new dramedy “Long Lost,” which opened Tuesday at Off Broadway’s Manhattan Theatre Club. Billy is long lost, indeed. After years of being elsewhere, including a stint in jail, Billy arrives unexpectedly in Manhattan to mooch off his younger brother, David (Kelly Aucoin, “Billions”), and sister-in-law, Molly (Annie Parisse, “Friends From College”), whose teenage son Jeremy (Alex Wolff, “Hereditary”) hasn’t seen his uncle since they spent a day together at an amusement park 10 years ago and Billy won his little nephew a stuffed panda bear.