Plays For The Plague Year Tickets

New York

5 Apr 2023 - 30 Apr 2023

See Pulitzer winner Suzan-Lori Parks's theatrical concert born of the pandemic.

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41 Reviews on Show-Score

Important information

Presented in Joe’s Pub with intimate cabaret seating. Scenes, music, poetry, and movement will fill the space. We encourage all to feel comfortable taking advantage of the food and beverage service available throughout the performance.

Plays For The Plague Year Information

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On March 13, 2020, as theaters shut their doors and so many of us went into lockdown, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and The Public’s Writer-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks picked up her pen and set out to write a play every day. What emerged is a breathtaking chronicle of our collective experience throughout the troubling days and nights that followed. Performing in the intimate Joe’s Pub, PLAYS FOR THE PLAGUE YEAR is at once a personal story of one family's daily lives, as well as a sweeping account of all we faced as a city, a nation, and a global community. Working in collaboration with Niegel Smith as director, Parks' groundbreaking new work is brimming with humanity, bears witness to what we’ve experienced, and offers inspiration as we look ahead.

Photo credit: Suzan-Lori Parks by Stephanie Diani

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Run time

3 hrs (incl. intermission)

Opening date

April 5th, 2023

Closing date

April 30th, 2023

Venue

Joe's Pub at The Public Theatre

Cast and creative

By: Suzan-Lori Parks
Producer: The Public Theater
Director: Niegel Smith
Cast list: Suzan-Lori Parks (as The Writer), Edward Astor Chin, Leland Fowler, Danyel Fulton, Greg Keller, Orville Mendoza, Lauren Molina, Martín Solá, Rona Figueroa, Joe Osheroff, Danea Osseni, Nathan M. Ramsey
Lighting: Ania Washington
Sound: Dan Moses Schrier
Costume: Montana Levi Blanco
Other info: Projection design by Peter Nigrini

Our review

Review of Plays For The Plague Year

'Plays for the Plague Year' review — a compassionate chronicle of the pandemic

4/5

The band came on stage first, setting up their instruments amid a chair and bookshelf and coffee table that turned the Joe's Pub stage into a cozy living room. They warmed up. They chatted with each other. They waved at their friends in the audience. At Suzan-Lori Parks's Plays for the Plague Year, a theatrical concert chronicling the early days of the pandemic, these ordinary actions were celebrations of community. Pulitzer Prize winner Parks assembled this three-hour production from a...

18 Apr 2023, 04:00

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'Plays for the Plague Year' sets Off-Broadway cast

The Public Theater has set the full cast for its production of Plays for the Plague Year by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks. The three-week run is from November 4-27 at Joe's Pub within the Public, with opening night on November 16.Parks stars in her own play as The Writer, making her stage acting debut. The rest of the cast includes Leland Fowler, Greg Keller, Orville Mendoza, 2022 Tony nominee Kenita Miller, Lauren Molina, Martín Solá, and Pearl Sun.The creative team has also been set....

14 Sep 2022, 00:00