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Video: Go Inside Opening Night of THE THANKSGIVING PLAY

The Thanksgiving Play is running on Broadway at the Hayes Theatre.

By: Apr. 28, 2023
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Second Stage Theater's production of Larissa FastHorse's play, The Thanksgiving Play, directed by Tony Award-winner Rachel Chavkin, opened just last week at Second Stage's Hayes Theater (240 West 44th Street).

When a troupe of really, really well-meaning theater artists attempt to put on a culturally sensitive Thanksgiving school pageant, things get messy. Hilarious and poignant, this delicious play skewers everything right, wrong, and woke in America.

"It's been exhilarating," said Chavkin after the opening night curtain came down. "How the play asks us to sit together in shame and embarrassment and the importance in doing that and in growing more resilient in our embarrassment is so deep. It's been a huge part of being in the room and it's something that Larissa [FastHorse] has been extraordinary at helping to create a space for."

The production stars Emmy Award-nominee D'Arcy Carden ("The Good Place," "A League of Their Own"), Two-time Tony Award-winner Katie Finneran (Noises Off; Promises, Promises), Scott Foley ("Scandal," "The Unit"), and Two-time Emmy Award-nominee Chris Sullivan ("This Is Us," Hadestown).

watch as BroadwayWorld takes you inside the big night with the cast and creative team!

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