Photo Flash: First Look at DISGRACED at Capital Stage

Capital Stage continues its 2015/16 Season with a Pulitzer Prize winner, Obie Award winner, Tony Award nominee and Sacramento premiere. DISGRACED by Ayad Akhtar will be directed by Capital Stage Producing Artistic Director Michael Stevenson. DISGRACED will run from May 4 through June 5, 2016 with a Press Opening on Saturday, May 7 at 8pm. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize-winning play centers around a dinner party between four people with very different backgrounds. Amir Kapoor is a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who is rapidly moving up the corporate ladder while distancing himself from his cultural roots. Emily, his wife, is white; she's an artist, and her work is influenced by Islamic imagery. When the couple hosts a dinner party, what starts out as a friendly conversation escalates into something far more damaging. As discussion turns to politics and religion, the mood quickly becomes heated. Focusing on sociopolitical themes such as Islamophobia and the self-identity of Muslim-American citizens, Disgraced is a powder keg of identity politics. The play exposes racial and ethnic prejudices that persist just below the surface of the everyday politically correct dinner conversation.

DISGRACED will be directed by Producing Artistic Director, Michael Stevenson (Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, Ideation, Clybourne Park, Mauritius, Erratica, Les Liaisons Dangereuses). The cast will feature Adam El-Sharkawi (Capital Stage debut), Benjamin T. Ismail (Tribes, Speech & Debate), Jennifer Le Blanc (Capital Stage debut), Atim Udoffia (Clybourne Park), and Michael Patrick Wiles (Uncanny Valley, The Real Thing, Hedda Gabler, Master Class, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Fat Pig). The production design team will include Stephen Decker (scenic design), Ron Madonia (lighting design), Rebecca Redmond (costume design), Thom Green (furniture/set dresser), Ed Lee (sound design) and Matt K. Miller (fight director).

General ticket prices range from$25-45. Tickets are currently available at the Capital Stage Box Office, by phone at 916-995-5464, or online at capstage.org.

Photo Credit: Charr Crail