The Basketball Diaries at 59E59's Theater B

Godlight Theatre Company present The Basketball Diaries, adapted by Matt Pelfrey from Jim Carroll's Basketball Diaries, at 59E59 Theaters / Theatre B from 15 - 27 Jul 2008.

The Basketball Diaries: In 1963 at age 12 - in the middle of the Cold War, the war in Vietnam, the race riots in New York City, and at a turning point in American Culture - Jim Carroll began writing his Basketball Diaries. Jim is an all-star basketball player at an Ivy League catholic school leading a double life, experimenting with drugs and getting hooked, hustling gay men to support a heroin addiction, and becoming a poet and future rock singer.

Directed by Joe Tantalo, The Basketball Diaries features Katherine Boynton, Deanna McGovern, Nick Paglino, Alex Pappas, Aaron Paternoster, John Porto, Mike Roche, Michael Shimkin, Arthur Solomon and Sam Whitten..

The creative team includes Maruti Evans (sets & costumes) and Andrew Recinos (sound).