FAIRVIEW By Jackie Sibblies Drury To Begin This September
Capital Stage has announced that the Pulitzer Prize-winning play FAIRVIEW by Jackie Sibblies Drury will open its 20th anniversary season on September 4, 2024.
By: A.A. Cristi Aug. 29, 2024
Beverly is striving to make her mother's birthday party a success, but the relentless chaos of her sitcom family has other plans. The Sacramento Premiere of the Pulitzer Prize Winning play FAIRVIEW by Jackie Sibblies Drury inaugurates Capital Stage's 20th Anniversary Season and brings the return of Director Anthony D'Juan (CLYDE'S, PASS OVER, THE ROYALE).
The cast features Kathryn Smith-McGlynn (CLYDE'S, SWEAT), Adrian Roberts (CLYDE'S, HOW TO USE A KNIFE, JESUS HOPPED THE 'A TRAIN, FIRST PERSON SHOOTER), Brooklynn T. Solomon (MISS BENNET, THE ROYALE), Shannon Mahoney (GLORIA, Luna GALE, MAPLE & VINE, CLYBOURNE PARK, ENRON), Brandon Lancaster (MACBETH, GOOD PEOPLE), Alissa Doyle (PREDICTOR, THE BEHAVIOR OF BROADUS), Scott Coopwood (ARCHDUKE, ANNA KARENINA, A DOLL'S HOUSE, MACBETH, SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME), and features the Capital Stage debut of Kali Honeywood. Performances run September 4-29, 2024.
Tickets are available now at capstage.org.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Jackie Sibblies Drury is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Her critically acclaimed play FAIRVIEW premiered at Soho Rep. Other plays include WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT A PRESENTATION ABOUT THE HERERO OF NAMIBIA, FORMERLY KNOWN AS SOUTH WEST AFRICA, FROM THE GERMAN SUDWESTAFRIKA, BETWEEN THE YEARS 1884-1915, REALLY, and SOCIAL CREATURES. Drury's plays have been presented by New York City Players and Abrons Arts Center, Soho Rep, Victory Gardens, Trinity Rep, Woolly Mammoth, Undermain Theatre, InterAct Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Company One, and The Bush Theatre in London, among others. Her work has been developed at The Bellagio Center, Sundance, The Ground Floor, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ars Nova, A.C.T., The Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, NYTW, PRELUDE, The Bushwick Starr, and The MacDowell Colony. Drury is a NYTW Usual Suspect, a United States Artists Gracie Fellow, has received a Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists, a Jerome Fellowship at The LARK, a Windham-Campbell Literary Prize in Drama, and is a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Anthony D'Juan is a Sacramento based director-playwright who has been active since 1996. He was assistant & protégé to Ed Claudio from 1997-2005.
Playwriting credits include: THEORY OF THE DREAM, SAFE AT HOME, MEN IN RIFFS, POTENTIAL LITERATURE, 3:BLACK GIRL BLUES (with Danielle Mone' Truitt), THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED, DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE (with Carla Fleming & Joe Archie), BIRDMOCKING and ANY'PERSON.
Directing credits include SUBURBIA, OTHELLO, FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (THE MUSICAL), Jack Partington's ALICE IN WONDERLAND (world premier), ENDGAME (best drama 2004), BASH:LATTER DAY PLAYS, THE DISTANCE FROM HERE, OUR TOWN, THE SEAGULL, THE DUMB WAITER, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG (2007), Dan Fagan's A TIGER WITHOUT MERCY (world premier), Richard Hellesen's THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES (world premier), THE MOUNTAINTOP, BOOTYCANDY (nominated best director), SKELTON CREW, PASS OVER, THE ROYALE, DIRECT FROM DEATH ROW:THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS, 3:BLACK GIRL BLUES, FATSO (with Logan Heller - 2023 revival), PAPI ME AND CESAR CHAVEZ, Carla Fleming's DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE (world premier), CLYDE'S, Jerry Montoya's ROBIN HOOD (world premier), THE GOAT OR WHO IS SYLVIA?, and PROOF.
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