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Bruce Norris's acclaimed play adds another week of performances to its New York premiere.
off-Broadway " Playwrights Horizons. Nov. 15, 2022-Jan. 7, 2023. Drama. Author: Bruce Norris. Director: Pam MacKinnon. 2 hrs, 30 min. Critic: David Sheward (Dec. 2022). **** Bruce Norris has…
Critics, including Texas Senator Ted Cruz, claim Marks' review praises pedophilia.
Hutchison will replace original cast member Tim Hopper in the role of Andy.
Bruce Norris has a knack for making people uncomfortable. His 2006 play The Pain and the Itch featured a 4-year-old with a genital rash, a metaphor for her family's dysfunction that call…
Bruce Norris's off-Broadway work is tough stuff, questioning how society treats those convicted of heinous acts.
Playing Off-Broadway, the drama explores the boundaries of justice and forgiveness through the lives of four men post-incarceration.
The playwright's latest examines society's need to identify collective villains that can be perpetually punished.
By: Samuel L. Leiter
November 18, 2022: In Downstate, Bruce Norris's invigoratingly provocative new play at Playwrights Horizons"previously seen at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre and Londo…
Playwrights Horizons presents the drama, set in a group home for convicted sex offenders.
Norris' smart and effective script is packed with controversy; its characters are stained by the trauma in which their lives have been steeped, and it's uncertain they will ever feel clean a…
A tough one, this. Bruce Norris's Downstate, now playing at Playwrights Horizons, plunks us down into a repellent environment, one we'd never choose to find ourselves in, and shakes our assu…
Playwrights Horizons will present the New York premiere of Bruce Norris's Downstate, directed by Pam MacKinnon, October 28"December 11 (opening November 15). This provocative work s…
At the beginning of "Downstate," an unsettling play by Bruce Norris, Andy (Tim Hopper) is confronting the man who sexually abused him thirty years earlier, reading with shaky breath from …
Clybourne Park author Bruce Norris returns to Playwrights Horizons with this controversial new play.
The deep, dark tragicomedy by Bruce Norris is set in a group home for sex offenders.
The brilliant and risky drama is set in a group home for sex offenders and pedophiles.
Bruce Norris, "a brilliant button-pusher", wades into murky moral water with his latest play. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Downstate by Bruce Norris and directed by Pam MacKinnon at Playwrights Horizons in New York City.
★★★★☆ Pam McKinnon directs the attitude-challenging Steppenwolf/National Theatre co-production
The post Downstate: Bruce Norris' Bold, Unflinching Look at Child…
By Stuart Miller . . . On a well-worn couch, Andy and Em are struggling to talk about the past but their halting, tense conversation with Fred is undermined as the older man charms and defle…
The play about four men living out their days post-incarceration in a group home takes the stage at Playwrights Horizons.
The play about four men living out their days post-incarceration in a group home takes the stage at Playwrights Horizons.
Downstate
October 28, 2022 " December 11, 2022
Written by Bruce Norris
Directed by Pam MacKinnon
New York Premiere
At a registered address in downstate Illinois, four men convicted of sex …
Plays by Bruce Norris and Mia Chung will open later this fall.
