PhotosPhotos! First Look at Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ WarTake a look at War by award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins at Lincoln Center Theater.
By
Monica Simoes
May 28, 2016
The cast also includes Austin Durant, Reggie Gowland, Michele Shay, Lance Coadie Williams and Charlayne Woodard. The new comedy/drama from the Gloria playwright will officially open June 6.
According to production notes, War sees “tensions escalate between Tate (Myers) and Joanne (Nicks) after their mother has a stroke. As they attack each other in their mother’s hospital room, they are ambushed by two strangers who make a shocking claim about their grandfather during WWII.”
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.