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Written and set during the rise of Hitler’s Germany, Watch on the Rhine is a play about an American family, suddenly awakened to the danger threatening its liberty. Lillian Hellman’s powerful drama won the 1941 New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
What's Next?
THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG- May 20, 2021
Three very different sisters reunite after a lengthy separation and discover humanity, respect, and love in this definitive serious comedy about sisterhood.
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
Sarna Lapine
In 2017, Ms. Lapine directed the Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George to critical acclaim, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford. Her National Tours include theatrical staples such as The National Theatre's War Horse and Lincoln Center's South Pacific. She has worked on numerous Bartlett Sher productions such as Light in the Piazza, Awake and Sing! and South Pacific.
Lillian Hellman
Hellman (1905 – 1984) was an American playwright, author, and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway, as well as her communist sympathies and political activism. As a playwright, Hellman had many successes on Broadway, including Watch on the Rhine, The Autumn Garden, Toys in the Attic, Another Part of the Forest, The Children's Hour and The Little Foxes. She adapted her semi-autobiographical play The Little Foxes into a screenplay, which starred Bette Davis. Hellman became the first female screenwriter to receive an individual Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1943. Three years prior, Joan Harrison had been nominated alongside Charles Bennett.
Ellen Burstyn
Burstyn's sixty-year acting career encompasses film, stage, and television. In 1975 she became the third woman in history to win both a Tony Award and an Academy Award in the same year, for her work in Same Time, Next Year on Broadway and the film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. She has received five other Academy Award nominations. She has been nominated for seven Golden Globe awards, winning in 1979 for Same Time, Next Year. She became a "triple crown winner" when she received her first Emmy for a guest appearance in Law & Order: SVU (2009), and won again in 2013 for her role in the miniseries Political Animals. She has been nominated for an Emmy six additional times. In 2014 she was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. Early films include The Last Picture Show (1971 - Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations) and The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), among others.
Alan Cox
Alan Cox played Uncle Vanya at the Hampstead Theatre in London and Claudius in Hamlet for the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. He played David Frost in the national tour of Frost/Nixon, for which he received a Helen Hayes Award nomination. He made his Broadway debut in Translations, which transferred from McCarter Theatre Center in New Jersey. He made his motion picture debut as Watson in Young Sherlock Holmes. His film work includes Contagion, The Dictator, Mrs. Dalloway, and An Awfully Big Adventure. Alan’s television credits include The Good Wife, John Adams, and The Odyssey.
Sasha Diamond
Sasha Diamond made her Broadway debut with Significant Other. Off-Broadway: Teenage Dick, Kentucky (EST), Double Suicide at Ueno Park! (EST), The Wong Kids (Ma-Yi Theatre Company, Off-Broadway Alliance Award). Regional: Peerless (Barrington Stage Company), The Winners (HotCity Theatre). Tv: NCIS: New Orleans, Tommy, Blindspot, Murphy Brown, High Maintenance.
Alfred Enoch
Enoch's theatre work includes Red, King Lear (Royal Exchange Manchester), Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse), Timon of Athens, Antigone (National Theatre). For television, his credits include Troy, How To Get Away with Murder, Sherlock and Broadchurch; and for film, Enoch played Dean Thomas across seven of the eight Harry Potter films.
Carla Gugino
Carla has received recognition for her starring roles as Ingrid Cortez in the Spy Kids trilogy (2001–2003), Rebecca Hutman in Night At The Museum (2006), Laurie Roberts in American Gangster (2007), Sally Jupiter in Watchmen (2009), Dr. Vera Gorski in Sucker Punch (2011), Emma Gaines in San Andreas (2015), and Jessie Burlingame in Gerald's Game (2017). Gugino also starred as the lead character in the crime drama series Karen Sisco (2003), the science fiction series Threshold (2005–2006), the supernatural horror series The Haunting of Hill House (2018), and the crime drama series Jett (2019), and also appeared in The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020).
Luca Padovan
Luca Padovan has appeared on Broadway in Marvin's Room, School of Rock, and Newsies. His television appearances include Super Wings!, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and You.
Mary Beth Peil
Broadway: Anastasia, Les Liaisons Dangereuses; The Visit; Follies; Women on the Verge...; Sunday in the Park...; Nine; The King and I (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway: many productions with Atlantic Theater (ensemble member and Obie winner); Cheever Evening, Later Life (Playwrights Horizon); First Ladies Suite (Transport Group); Sylvia (MTC); Hedda Gabler (NYTW). Regional: Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, About Face, Long Wharf, Yale Rep, Kennedy Center. TV: "The Good Wife" (Jackie); "Dawson's Creek" (Grams); "Law & Order: SVU"; "The Fringe." Film: The Contest, Mirrors, Plagues of Our Fathers, The Reagans, Stepford Wives II, Odd Couple II.
Gabriella Pizzolo
Pizzolo has starred on Broadway as Small Alison in Fun Home and was previously seen as Matilda in Matilda the Musical.
Neel Sethi
Sethi is best known for his performance as Mowgli in John Favreau's 2016 live-action version of the classic tale 'The Jungle Book'.
Jeremy Shamos
Shamos received a Tony Award nomination for his performance in Clybourne Park, for which he also received Drama League Award and Lucille Lortel Award nominations. Other Broadway credits include Meteor Shower, Noises Off, The Assembled Parties, Glengarry Glen Ross, Elling, Reckless, and The Rivals. Off-Broadway: The Qualms, Engaged (Obie Award), Animals Out of Paper(Drama Desk Award nomination), We Live Here, Corpus Christi, The New York Idea, 100 Saints You Should Know, Miss Witherspoon, Gutenberg!, Observe the Sons of Ulster..., Shakespeare (Abridged), Race, The Alchemist, Hamlet, Cymbeline, Dinner With Friends (Lortel Award), If I Forget (Drama Desk nomination). Television: recurring roles on "Better Call Saul" and "Nurse Jackie," guest appearances on "The Affair," "Chicago P.D.," "Limitless," "Happyish," "Elementary," "The Good Wife," "Unforgettable," "Fringe," "Law & Order: SVU" and "Criminal Intent." Film: Alejandro Gonzalez's Birdman, Woody Allen's Magic in the Moonlight, Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock, and The Big Sick.
About Broadway's Best Shows:
Broadway’s Best Shows is a new home for entertaining, engaging content, long form features and exclusive access to Broadway's Best The play series launched in May 2020 with David Mamet’s November; Joshua Harmon’s Significant Other; and A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters. In Fall 2020, seven plays were presented including Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth, David Mamet’s RACE, David Mamet’s Boston Marriage, a new adaptation of Uncle Vanya, a reunion with the original Broadway cast of Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still and Robert’s O’Hara’s Barbecue.
Proceeds:
Proceeds from the Spotlight on Plays series benefit The Actors Fund- a national human services organization that fosters stability and resiliency and provides a safety net for performing arts and entertainment professionals over their lifespan. Through offices in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, The Fund serves everyone in film, theater, television, music, opera, radio and dance with programs including social services and emergency financial assistance, health care and insurance counseling, housing, and secondary employment and training services. Visit www.actorsfund.org.