Photo Coverage: Inside PICNIC's Opening Night Curtain Call!

William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Picnic returns to Broadway in a striking new production helmed by acclaimed director Sam Gold (Roundabout's Look Back in Anger, Seminar). Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn stars alongside theatre veterans Reed Birney (The Dream of the Burning Boy) and Elizabeth Marvel (Other Desert Cities), rising stars Maggie Grace ("Lost") and Sebastian Stan ("Gossip Girl"), Emmy Award winner Mare Winningham (recently seen in Tribes), Madeleine Martin (August: Osage County) and Ben Rappaport (Hope Springs).

BroadwayWorld was there last night for all of the opening night festivities and you can check out full coverage from the first curtain call below!

It's a balmy Labor Day in the American Heartland, and a group of women are preparing for a Picnic... but they'll have to lay a lot on the line before they can lay out the checkered cloths. When a handsome young drifter named Hal (Stan) arrives, his combination of uncouth manners and titillating charm sends the women reeling, especially the beautiful Madge (Grace). When Hal is forced out of town, Madge must decide whether their fleeting encounter is worth changing the course of her life.

PICNIC will run through February 24, 2013 at the American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd Street).

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

Cast Board

Maggie Grace, Sebastian Stan, Mare Winningham, Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Marvel

Sebastian Stan

Chris Perfetti, Ben Rappaport & Madeleine Martin

Reed Birney

Reed Birney & Maddie Corma n

Ben Rappaport & Madeleine Martin

Maggie Grace, Sebastian Stan, Mare Winningham, Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Marvel

Ben Rappaport & Madeleine Martin

Mare Winningham & Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn & Elizabeth Marvel

Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Marvel

Maggie Grace & Sebastian Stan

Ellen Burstyn & Elizabeth Marvel

Ben Rappaport

Madeleine Martin

Sebastian Stan

Maggie Grace, Sebastian Stan

Maggie Grace

Mare Winningham, Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Marvel

Sebastian Stan

Ellen Burstyn

Madeleine Martin & Maggie Grace

Sebastian Stan & Mare Winningham

Ben Rappaport, Madeleine Martin, Maggie Grace, Sebastian Stan, Mare Winningham, Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Marvel, Reed Birney & Maddie Corma n

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As a 14 year old youth, Walter was transfixed by his first Broadway Show, the original production of 'GREASE'. His Journey to celebrity photojournalism began that fateful night. Meeting, photographing and getting to know the cast inspired him to spend his professional life doing what he loved. Walter moved to Manhattan and for a leading role as a Photographer & Photo Researcher. Currently headlining in New Jersey with his partner Richard and family members Dali (Jack Russell) & Gala (Schnoodle). Recently he made his Broadway debut sharing the stage with Hugh Jackman in 'Hugh Jackman on Broadway' as well as receiving the Actors' Equity Association Gypsy Spirit Award. Walter McBride Photography is syndicated worldwide by Corbis/AP.

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