Mainstage Season opener Disgraced is making an impact on audiences and critics alike. Read what reviewers have to say about this “profound” Pulitzer Prize-winner.
Unscripted
On Ayad Aktar and Disgraced
Ayad Akhtar is a storyteller. By profession, he is an actor, a playwright, a novelist and a filmmaker…
Disgraced is a nuanced but dynamic journey through complex aspects of identity and heritage in America…
Nephelie Andonyadis knows what draws her to a project: a combination of intriguing, important material, an aesthetic challenge, exciting collaborators and the chance to work within the fabric of a community. With PlayMakers’ production of Disgraced, she’s “grateful to have the opportunity to explore this remarkably insightful, challenging, and chiseled play with gifted collaborators who are dear old colleagues and new found friends.”
“I wanted to direct Disgraced for a number of reasons, one being that it doesn’t shy away from the challenging and provocative questions of co-existence […]
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