Photo Coverage: Inside Opening Night of Playwrights Horizons's BOOTYCANDY

Playwrights Horizons presents the New York premiere 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). Bootycandy is the opening production of thePlaywrights Horizons 2014/2015 Season. The production opened last night, September 10, and will play a limited engagement through Sunday, October 12 at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street).

The cast of Bootycandy features Phillip James Brannon (The City of Conversation, Belleville, Love and Information), three-time Helen Hayes Award nominee Jessica Frances Dukes (including for Mr. O'Hara's Insurrection: Holding History), 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: Jennifer Broski

Benja Kay Thomas, Jesse Pennington, Phillip James Brannon, Lance Coadie Williams, Jessica Frances Dukes

Benja Kay Thomas, Jesse Pennington, Phillip James Brannon, Lance Coadie Williams, Jessica Frances Dukes

Benja Kay Thomas, Jesse Pennington, Phillip James Brannon, Lance Coadie Williams, Jessica Frances Dukes

Logan Vaughn, Phillip James Brannon, Rodney McKenzie

Jessica Frances Dukes

Benja Kay Thomas

Jessica Frances Dukes, Benja Kay Thomas

Lance Coadie Williams

Jesse Pennington, Jessica Frances Dukes, Phillip James Brannon, Robert O'Hara, Lance Coadie Williams, Benja Kay Thomas

Jesse Pennington, Tim Sanford, Jessica Frances Dukes, Phillip James Brannon, Robert O'Hara, Lance Coadie Williams, Benja Kay Thomas

Tim Sanford, Robert O'Hara

Jesse Pennington, Phillip James Brannon, Lance Coadie Williams