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About the Play
Stephen Karam's Tony Award-Winning play about a Thanksgiving dinner gone awry.
Story:
Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake has brought his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside the ramshackle pre-war duplex, eerie things start to go bump in the night and the heart and horrors of the Blake clan are exposed.
Fun Fact
The Pulitzer Prize committee said the play was "a profoundly affecting drama that sketches the psychological and emotional contours of an average American family."
Pulitzer Prize Website
Playwright
Stephen Karam
Broadway Premiere
- Theatre
- Helen Hayes Theatre, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
- Opening Night
- Feb 18, 2016
- Total Performances
- 365
- Original Cast
- Cassie Beck, Reed Birney, Jayne Houdyshell, Lauren Klein, Arian Moayed, Sarah Steele
- Director
- Joe Mantello
- Producer
- Scott Rudin, Barry Diller, Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes: Artistic Director; Harold Wolpert: Managing Director; Julia C. Levy: Executive Director; Sydney Beers, General Manager), Fox Theatricals, James L. Nederlander, Terry Allen Kramer, Roy Furman, Daryl Roth, Jon B. Platt, Eli Bush, Broadway Across America, Jack Lane, Barbara Whitman, Jay Alix & Una Jackman, Scott M. Delman, Sonia Friedman, Amanda Lipitz, Peter May, Stephanie P. McClelland, Lauren Stein and The Shubert Organization (Philip J. Smith: Chairman; Robert E. Wankel: President)
- Scenic Design
- David Zinn
- Costume Design
- Sarah Laux
- Lighting Design
- Justin Townsend
- Sound Design
- Fitz Patton
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2016 Tony Award Nominations
Best Play
Best Performance By An Actor In A Featured Role In A Play - Reed Birney
Best Performance By An Actress In A Featured Role In A Play - Jayne Houdyshell
Best Scenic Design Of A Play
Best Direction Of A Play
Best Lighting Design Of A Play
2016 Drama Desk Award Nominations
Outstanding Play
Outstanding Sound Design In A Play
Outstanding Lighting Design For A Play
Outstanding Ensemble Performance
Outstanding Director Of A Play
2016 Drama League Award Nominations
Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play
Distinguished Performance - Reed Birney
Distinguished Performance - Jayne Houdyshell
2016 Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations
Outstanding New Broadway Play
Outstanding Actor in a Play - Reed Birney
Outstanding Actress in a Play - Jayne Houdyshell
Outstanding Director of a Play
2016 Pulitzer Prize Nominations
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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