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Three very different sisters reunite after a lengthy separation and discover humanity, respect, and love in this definitive serious comedy about sisterhood.
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OHIO STATE MURDERS- June 3, 2021
Ohio State Murders is an unusual look at the destructiveness of racism in the U.S. When Suzanne Alexander, a fictional African American writer, returns to Ohio State University to talk about the violence in her writing, a dark mystery unravels.
DEAR ELIZABETH- June 17, 2021
Based on the compiled letters between poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, Dear Elizabeth maps the relationship of the two poets from first meeting to an abbreviated affair-- and the turmoil of their lives in between.
*Dates subject to change
The Spring Series of “Spotlight” on Plays is produced by an award-winning team of producers including Good Productions/Patty Baker, Rebecca Gold, Jayne Baron Sherman, Iris Smith, Louise Gund, Willette Klausner, Myla Lerner, Judith Manocherian, Alix Ritchie, Jenna Segal, and The Shubert Organization with support from The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation. Associate Producers for the Spring Season include Rose Caiola, Barbara Freitag, Barbara Manocherian and Gabrielle Palitz.
“Spotlight on Plays” is created by Jeffrey Richards with Jacob Soroken Porter and Jim Glaub.
Meet the Company
Anna D. Shapiro
Anna D. Shapiro joined the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble in 2005 and became Artistic Director in 2015. She was awarded the 2008 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for August: Osage County (Steppenwolf, Broadway, London), and was nominated in 2011 in the same category for The Motherf**ker with the Hat (Public Theatre, Labyrinth Theater). Other directing credits at Steppenwolf include Visiting Edna, Mary Page Marlowe, Three Sisters, A Parallelogram, Up, The Crucible, The Unmentionables (also at Yale Repertory Theatre), The Pain and the Itch (also in New York), I Never Sang for My Father, Man from Nebraska, Purple Heart (also in Galway, Ireland), The Drawer Boy, Side Man (also in Ireland, Australia and Vail, Colorado), Three Days of Rain, The Infidel and This is Our Youth (which transferred to Broadway). Other Broadway credits include Of Mice and Men (with James Franco) and Fish in the Dark (with Larry David). Off-Broadway credits include Domesticated (Lincoln Center). Up next she will direct Pass Over on Broadway.
Wendy Wasserstein
(1950-2006) Wasserstein's first production of note was Uncommon Women and Others (her graduate thesis at Yale). A full version of the play was produced in 1977 Off-Broadway with Glenn Close, Jill Eikenberry, and Swoosie Kurtz playing the lead roles. In 1989, she won the Tony Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play The Heidi Chronicles. Her plays, which explore topics ranging from feminism to family to ethnicity to pop culture, include The Sisters Rosensweig, Isn't It Romantic, An American Daughter, Old Money, and her last work, which opened in 2005, Third. During her career, which spanned nearly four decades, Wasserstein wrote eleven plays, winning a Tony Award, a Pulitzer Prize, a New York Drama Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award
Jason Alexander
Alexander made his Broadway debut in the original cast of the Hal Prince/Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along. He continued starring on Broadway in the original casts of Kander and Ebb's The Rink, Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, Rupert Holmes' Accomplice and his Tony Award-winning performance in Jerome Robbin's Broadway. Alexander also authored the libretto for that show which went on to win the Tony Award for Best Musical. He is best known for his role as George Costanza in the television series Seinfeld (1989–1998), for which he was nominated for seven consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. Other well-known roles include Phillip Stuckey in the film Pretty Woman (1990), comic relief gargoyle Hugo in the Disney animated feature The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), and the title character in the animated series Duckman (1994–1997). He has also made guest appearances on shows such as Dream On (1994), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2001, 2009), and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2019). For his role in Dream On, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.
John Behlmann
Behlmann most recently appeared in Tootsie. Broadway: Significant Other, Journey's End (Tony for Best Revival). Off-Broadway: 1776 (Encores), Pretty Filthy(Civilians), Important Hats of the 20th Century (MTC), The 39 Steps (New World Stages), Significant Other (Roundabout), Eager to Lose (Ars Nova), Wild Animals... (MCC), This Is Not J.A.W.S. (Dixon Place). Regional: Created the role of Nuke LaLoosh in the musical of Bull Durham (Alliance). Film: Wolf of Wall Street, Revolutionary Road, Above All Things, Block Island, and the upcoming Billy Crystal film, We Are Unsatisfied. TV: Agent Adams in Season 2 of "Riverdale," "Good Behavior," "Instinct," "Odd Mom Out," "Blue Bloods," "The Good Wife." Training: Wesleyan University, Denver Center..
Lisa Edelstein
Edelstein is best known for playing Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the Fox medical drama series House. Between 2014 and 2018, she starred as Abby McCarthy in the Bravo series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce. In 2018, Edelstein joined the cast of ABC's The Good Doctor in season two as Dr. Blaize in a recurring role. Edelstein also plays a recurring character in The Kominsky Method, a Netflix series that debuted in November 2018. Her other television credits include Relativity, The West Wing, Ally McBeal, Felicity, ER, Frasier, Just Shoot Me!, Without a Trace, and Judging Amy.
Kathryn Hahn
As a lead actress in film, Hahn starred in the 2013 comedy-drama Afternoon Delight, directed by Joey Soloway, comedy film Bad Moms, and its sequel, A Bad Moms Christmas and the 2018 drama Private Life, directed by Tamara Jenkins. For the latter, she received critical acclaim and a Gotham Award nomination for Best Actress. She has appeared in a number of dramatic films, including Revolutionary Road, This Is Where I Leave You, Tomorrowland, The Visit, and Captain Fantastic, for which she received her first Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In television, Hahn was featured in a recurring guest role on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation (2012-2015), for which she received a Critics' Choice nomination for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series, she starred in the Amazon Prime Video comedy-drama series Transparent (2014–2019), for which she received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Hahn also starred in the Amazon Prime Video comedy series I Love Dick (2016–2017), the HBO comedy miniseries Mrs. Fletcher (2019), and the HBO drama miniseries I Know This Much Is True (2020). Since 2020, Hahn has voiced Paige Hunter in the Apple TV+ animated musical comedy series Central Park and starred as Agatha Harkness in the Disney+ television series WandaVision (2021), for which she received critical acclaim.
Kathryn Newton
Newton is known for her starring roles as Louise Brooks in the CBS comedy series Gary Unmarried, Abigail Carlson in the HBO mystery drama series Big Little Lies, and Allie Pressman in the Netflix teen drama series The Society. She is also known for portraying the older versions of Claire Novak in The CW dark fantasy series Supernatural and Joanie Clark in the AMC period drama series Halt and Catch Fire. Newton has starred in the comedy film Bad Teacher (2011), the supernatural horror film Paranormal Activity 4 (2012), for which she received the Young Artist Award for Best Leading Young Actress in a Feature Film, the crime drama film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), the sex comedy film Blockers (2018), the drama film Ben Is Back (2018), the sci-fi action mystery comedy film Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019), and the slasher comedy film Freaky (2020).
Tracee Chimo Pallero
Chimo starred on Broadway in Noises Off and Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles. She also starred opposite Jim Parsons in the Broadway production of Harvey, in addition to starring in Irena’s Vow opposite Tovah Feldschuh. She starred in the revival of Terrence McNally’s Lips Together Teeth Apart at The Second Stage and originated the role of “Daphna” in Bad Jews at Roundabout Theatre Company, for which she earned the 2014 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress as well as an Outer Critic’s Circle Award and Drama League Award nominations. Other Off?Broadway credits include “Reagan” in Bachelorette (Lucile Lortel nomination), and “Lauren” in Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation, for which she got the OBIE, Drama Desk Award and Lucille Lortel nominations for Best Actress. She won the 2011 Clarence Derwent Award for “Most Promising Actress in New York: and Rising Star Award from her Alma Mater, Salem State College. In television, Tracee had a recurring role on “Orange is the New Black” and the new Amy Poehler series “Difficult People” for Hulu. She has also appeared in “Black Box,” in David Milch’s pilot “The Money” for HBO, “Louie,” “Royal Pains,” “High Maintenance” and “The Good Wife.” She co-starred opposite Jason Segel in The Five Year Engagement and was recently seen in Black Hat opposite Viola Davis. Other film credits include Concussion, Take Care and Side Effects.
Chris Perfetti
Perfetti has appeared in Sons of the Prophet by playwright Stephen Karam, playing the role of Charlie. For his work as Charlie, he received a Theatre World Award for Best Debut Performance in an Off-Broadway play. Starting in December 2012, Perfetti played Bomber in the revival of Picnic by William Inge. Perfetti appeared as Ariel in The Tempest at the Delacorte Theater in the summer of 2015. Perfetti is also known for starring in Submissions Only (2010), Next Caller (2012), the NBC series Crossbones (2014) as series regular Tim Fletch, and as the character Brady in the second season of the HBO show Looking (2015), and its subsequent series finale television film, Looking: The Movie (2016).
James Urbaniak
is an American character actor. Best known for his roles as Simon Grim in Hal Hartley's three films: Henry Fool (1997), Fay Grim (2006) and Ned Rifle (2014), Robert Crumb in American Splendor (2003), Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture in the animated series The Venture Bros. (2003–2018), Grant Grunderschmidt in Review (2014–2017) and Arthur Tack in Difficult People (2015–2017).
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