Photo Coverage: PICNIC's Opening Night Theatre Arrivals

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 star-studded arrivals 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 from through February 24, 2013 at the American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd Street).

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

Jane Alexander

Jane Alexander with her Grandchildren

Carolyn McCormick & Byron Jennings

Carolyn McCormick

Byron Jennings

Carolyn McCormick & Byron Jennings

Neil Simon

Josh Hamilton, Callie Thorne, Sam Rockwell

Josh Hamilton

Sam Rockwell

Josh Hamilton, Callie Thorne, Sam Rockwell

Katherine Waterston & Ari Graynor

Michael Mayer

Adam Chandler -Berat

Stephen Karam

Adam Chanler-Barat, Stephen Karam

Walter Bobbie

Blythe Danner

Hamish Linklater

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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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