Off Broadway
The year is 2020 and the American theater is shut down… but it is not shut off.
Off Broadway follows the staff of a nonprofit New York theater as they gather on Zoom and scramble to stave off extinction. The company's artistic director, staggeringly underqualified and convinced of his own brilliance, has a plan: reopen the theater with Al Pacino starring in Othello... in blackface.
What follows is a blistering and hilarious satire of the American theater industry and its blind spots around race, power, and institutional self-preservation.
Press
“a lacerating, wickedly funny portrait of a struggling New York company whose leaders are willfully oblivious of their racial and gender biases.”
— Elisabeth Vincentelli
Blistering and hilarious satire… Off Broadway entreats us to notice whose voices, perspectives and experiences are dismissed, talked over, ignored. It asks who in the theatrical establishment is willing to listen, and who is willing to act -- and act differently -- based on what they hear.”
— Laura Collins-Hughes
