FREEZE FRAME: Meet the Cast of Playwrights Horizons' BOOTYCANDY

Rehearsals just began for the Playwrights Horizons New York premiere production of Bootycandy, a new play written and directed by Obie Award winner Robert O'Hara (director of In the Continuum, author of Antebellum and Insurrection: Holding History). The production will begin previews Friday evening, August 22 at 8PM with an Opening Night set for Wednesday, September 10 at 7PM. The limited engagement will play through Sunday evening, October 12 at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street). BroadwayWorld was in the rehearsal room with the company today and you can check out a sneak peek from the special event below. Check back later for complete coverage!

Completing the cast is three-time Helen Hayes Award nominee Jessica Frances Dukes (including for Mr. O'Hara's Insurrection: Holding History), who joins previously-announced cast members Phillip James Brannon (The City of Conversation, Belleville, Love and Information), Jesse Pennington (Rodney's Wife and Franny's Way at PH; Richard II), Audelco Award winner Benja Kay Thomas (Insurrection: Holding History, Unspeakable, Pearl's Gone Blue) and Lance Coadie Williams (New York debut).

Sutter (Phillip James Brannon) is on an outrageous odyssey through his childhood home, his church, dive bars, motel rooms and even nursing homes. A kaleidoscope of sketches that interconnect to portray growing up gay and black, Robert O'Hara's subversive, uproarious satire crashes headlong into the murky terrain of pain and pleasure and... Bootycandy.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

Phillip James Brannon, Benja Kay Thomas, Jessica Frances Dukes, Lance Coadie Williams and Jesse Pennington attend the First Day of Rehearsals for the Playwrights Horizons New York premiere production of Bootycandy at Playwrights Horizons on August 1, 2014 in New York City.