Photo Flash: Tamara Tunie, Roslyn Ruff and More Lead FAMILIAR, Opening Tonight at Playwrights Horizons
By: BWW News Desk Mar. 03, 2016
Playwrights Horizons presents the New York premiere production of FAMILIAR, a new play by Obie Award-winner Danai Gurira, directed by Rebecca Taichman. FAMILIAR will have its Opening Night this evening, March 3 at 7PM at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street). The limited engagement plays through Sunday, March 27. BroadwayWorld has a look at the cast in action below!
The cast features Ito Aghayere, Melanie Nicholls-King, Obie Award winner Roslyn Ruff, Harold Surratt, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Joe Tippett and Tony Award winner Tamara Tunie.
It's winter in Minnesota and a Zimbabwean family is preparing for the wedding of their eldest daughter (Ms. Ruff), a first-generation American. But when the bride insists on observing a traditional African custom, it opens a deep rift in the household. Rowdy and affectionate, FAMILIAR pitches tradition against assimilation, drawing a loving portrait of a family: the customs they keep, and the secrets they bury.
Photo Credit: Joan Marcus
Ito Aghayere and Melanie Nicholls-King
Harold Surratt, Tamara Tunie and Roslyn Ruff
Harold Surratt, Ito Aghayere, Roslyn Ruff and Tamara Tunie
Myra Lucretia Taylor and Tamara Tunie
Myra Lucretia Taylor, Harold Surratt, Roslyn Ruff and Tamara Tunie
Joby Earle, Roslyn Ruff, Myra Lucretia Taylor and Melanie Nicholls-King
Joby Earle, Joe Tippett and Myra Lucretia Taylor
Joe Tippett, Ito Aghayere, Joby Earle and Tamara Tunie
Melanie Nicholls-King, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Tamara Tunie and Roslyn Ruff
Joe Tippett and Ito Aghayere (background); Myra Lucretia Taylor, Roslyn Ruff and Tamara Tunie (foreground)
Harold Surratt, Joe Tippett, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Ito Aghayere, Tamara Tunie and Roslyn Ruff
Myra Lucretia Taylor and Tamara Tunie
The full cast of FAMILIAR on designer Clint Ramos' set.
Harold Surratt, Ito Aghayere, Joe Tippett and Tamara Tunie
Roslyn Ruff, Tamara Tunie, Harold Surratt and Ito Aghayere
Myra Lucretia Taylor and Roslyn Ruff
Melanie Nicholls-King, Joby Earle and Roslyn Ruff
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