Marjan Neshat returns to the cast of Selling Kabul at Playwrights Horizons, a new play by Sylvia Khoury that premiered at Williamstown in 2019. The play, which charts the human cost of the U.S. military involvement in (and withdrawal from) Afghanistan, started previews November 17 and runs through December 23.
Lizan Mitchell plays ‘Big Ma’ in the world premiere of Cullud Wattah, a new Afro-surrealist play by Erika Dickerson-Despenza at The Public Theater, directed by Candis C. Jones. The play, which follows three generations of Black women living in Flint, Michigan, during the water crisis, arrives Off-Broadway after earning the playwright the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize earlier this year. Cullud Wattah runs through December 12 with a cast including Crystal Dickinson, Andrea Patterson, Alicia Pilgrim, and Lauren F. Walker.
As a recent guest on “Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast,” Marjan Neshat says, “I don’t think I’ve ever done a play that has been as necessary in the sense that now I feel like Afghanistan is in the human psyche in a totally different way….These are incredibly good people in impossible circumstances. Sometimes, living in America, we can distance [ourselves],” she says. “I would like [the audience] to look at these people and go, ‘That could be my brother or my sister’ … And the impossible situation that they’re in is not removed from our country’s decisions.”
In memoriam of playwright and performer Jean-Claude van Itallie’s recent passing in September, company member Rosemary Quinn wrote a moving tribute to his life and work for American Theatre magazine.
LaTonya Borsay recently played the role of Grace in The Cincinnati Playhouse’s production and world premiere of The West End by Keith Josef Adkins and directed by Nicole A. Watson.
Caroline, or Change returns to Broadway with Roundabout Theatre Company and a cast led by London’s three-time Olivier Award winner Sharon D Clarke. Company member, John Cariani, plays the role of Stuart Gellman. A story of a Black woman working as a maid for a Jewish family in 1963 Louisiana, the celebrated show was created by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner and Tony Award winner Jeanine Tesori and this production is directed by Michael Longhurst. Performances run through January 9, 2022.
Alma’s Way, the new series is now streaming free on PBS KIDS. The show was created by actor and writer Sonia Manzano (beloved by generations as ‘Maria’ Sesame Street) and inspired by her childhood growing up in the Bronx. Company member, Annie Henk, voices the character of Alma’s mom, ‘Mami.’
Cindy Cheung joins season 4 of The Sinner as a series regular in the role of Stephanie Lam. Shot this past summer in Nova Scotia, new episodes of the police psychological thriller are being released weekly and will continue to air every Wednesday on USA Network and Hulu+.
Company member, Stephen McKinley Henderson, talks to The Hollywood Reporter about playing Thufir Hawat, a human computer, in Dune and a signature prop that made it to the screen after Denis Villeneuve happened to see it between takes.
Coal Country—By Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen; Music by Steve Earle. The cast includes company members Mary Bacon and Linda Powell.
Deep Fake—By Sharyn Rothstein, Directed by Rachel Chavkin. The cast includes company member Sanjit DeSilva.