Manhattan Theatre Club presents the world premiere of Jeff Augustin's The New Englanders, directed by Saheem Ali, as part of its 2019-2020 off-Broadway season.
Performances are staged at New York City Center's Stage II.
(Photos by Joan Marcus)
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8 images Can you ever really live the life you envisioned? In a mixed race family, a teenaged daughter and her dads are all trying to find happiness. Eisa wants to be the next Lauryn Hill and is struggling to break free of her sleepy New England town where she feels hopelessly trapped. Her fathers are being pulled in different directions of their own, one trying to re-connect with an old love, the other clinging to the path he always believed would be their future.
Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of The New Englanders, written by Jeff Augustin and directed by Saheem Ali, begins performances at New York City Center tonight and to mark the occasion we caught up with cast member Javier Muñoz to find out a little more about this excitingly topical new play.
With Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere production of The New Englanders at New York City Center, playwright Jeff Augustin set out to write, in his own words, a “quiet, existential” story that reflected the full and complex reality of the life of a black man that wasn’t about race. Of course, it’s about race in the same way it’s about a couple of married gay men raising a girl, and it’s... Read more
