Performance and Q&A: The Body of an American

February 21, 2016
3:00 pm
Cherry Lane Theatre
38 Commerce Street
New York, NY, 10014, United States
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Winner of the 2014 Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play and the Inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Award (shared with Tony-winner All The Way). The Body of an American tells the true story of an extraordinary friendship as two men, a war photojournalist and playwright, journey from some of the most dangerous places on earth to the depths of the human soul. Winning rave reviews for its previous productions in London and elsewhere, The Body of an American by Guggenheim Fellow Dan O'Brien is "a play that tightens its grip as it probes where war lives, and discovers we each carry it inside ourselves." (The Guardian) Directed by Obie winner Jo Bonney (Father Comes Home from the Wars..., Lost Girls).

Featuring: Michael Crane (Gloria, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Tony nominee Michael Cumpsty ("Boardwalk Empire," End of the Rainbow).

The play runs from February 10 - March 20. On February 21, playwright Dan O'Brien and Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Paul Watson, whose lives are the subject of the play, will hold a Q&A with the audience. This talk is supported in part by The Kal and Lucille Rudman Institute at Drexel University.