On October 7, 2013 at 7:00 pm Williams
Street Repertory launches a new initiative entitled Contemporary Voices. This playwright
reading series will feature the esteemed works of Lee Blessing, J.T. Rogers,
Daniel Stern and more.
Sandy Shinner, former associate
director of Victory Gardens has signed on to direct a staged reading of
J.T. Rogers’s “White People.” Talent for the evening will include James
Knight (I Am The Machine Gunner, Hartford Stage Company and recent filmwork in
Now You See Me), Alicia Regan (Sex and the City, Sopranos, Epic Rep) and Mark
Mahallak (The Rocky Horror Show, Company).
J.T. Rogers is the recent recipient of
the Pinter Review Prize for Drama, the American Theatre Critics Association’s
Osborne Award, and the William Inge Center for the Arts’ New Voices Award. His
highly acclaimed play, White People, is a controversial and darkly funny play
about the lives of three ordinary Americans placed under the spot-light:
Martin, a Brooklyn–born high powered attorney for a white-shoe law firm in St.
Louis, MO; Mara Lynn, a housewife and former home-coming queen in Fayetteville,
NC; and Alan, a young professor struggling to find his way in New York City.
Through heart-wrenching confessions, they wrestle with guilt, prejudice, and
the price they and their children must pay for their actions. White People is a
candid, brutally honest meditation on race and language in our culture.
The Chicago Daily Herald hails White
People as being “provocative, immediate and brilliant” while TimeOut New York
raves about the playwright saying, “Rogers is the rarest of creatures: an
American playwright with a social conscience and the desire to make damning
connections between human psychology and ideology.”
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