Building The Wall, the new play by Pulitzer and Tony winner Robert Schenkkan (All The Way), will make its New York premiere beginning performances on Friday, May 12th at 8:00 pm and opening on Sunday, May 21st at 7:30 pm at New World Stages (340 West 50th St.) for a strictly limited engagement through July 9, 2017.
The two-person political suspense thriller will feature two stars of the screen and stage:
James Badge Dale (Small Engine Repair, The Pacific, "Rubicon", The Departed) and
Tamara Tunie (Julius Caesar, "Law & Order: SVU", The Devil's Advocate) and will be directed by
Ari Edelson (Artistic Director of the Exchange; Little Black Dress, Expats).
From Pulitzer & Tony winner and Academy Award nominee
Robert Schenkkan, comes a provocative theatrical event written in a white-hot fury. In a time when shocking campaign rhetoric turns into real policies,
Building the Wall urgently reveals the power of theater to question who we are and where we might be going.