Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo - 2011 Broadway History , Info & More
Richard Rodgers Theatre (Broadway)
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Oscar® and Emmy® Award winner Robin Williams makes his Broadway debut in the New York premiere of BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO.
In Rajiv Joseph's new American play, a tiger haunts the streets of present day Baghdad seeking the meaning of life. As he witnesses the puzzling absurdities of war, the tiger encounters Americans and Iraqis who are searching for friendship, redemption and a toilet seat made of gold.
The New York Times says, "This boldly imagined, harrowing and surprisingly funny drama is wonderfully daring." A finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, this groundbreaking play comes to Broadway for a strictly limited, sixteen-week engagement directed by Tony Award® nominee Moisés Kaufman.
The cast also features Glenn Davis, Brad Fleischer, Hrach Titizian, Sheila Vand, Necar Zadegan and Arian Moayed, with Hend Ayoub, Corey Brill, Daoud Heidami and Sherman Howard.
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Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
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Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, which is having its New York premiere at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, is certainly the most distinguished work to arrive on Broadway this season. This is true because of the across-the-board excellence of the artists who have contributed to this production, from the playwright to the director (Moises Kaufman), from the top-notch team of designers to the brilliant ensemble of actors on stage. Here is a play that's been crafted to entertain, to engage, to challenge, and to jolt its audience—and that succeeds in all of these endeavors, shatteringly. Joseph makes us confront the world we've made for ourselves in the past decade. By turns darkly comic, grotesque, horrifying, absurd, and deeply disturbing, Bengal Tiger demands to be seen by people who care about humanity and art and their troubling devolutions in the 21st century.
Robin Williams haunts 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo' on Broadway
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Depicting the philosophical tiger with grim humor, a gruff-voiced, soulful Williams submerges his bravura skills into the ensemble work of his fellow actors. Respectively playing the conflicted translator and increasingly cerebral Marine, Moayed and Fleischer unerringly chart their characters' evolutions. Titizian suavely portrays the amoral Uday's ghost - who totes his dead brother's head in a plastic bag - with a jaunty ferocity that's scary.
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Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo - 2011 Broadway Awards and Nominations
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Moises Kaufman |
| 2011 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | David Lander |
| 2011 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music in a Play | Kathryn Bostic |
| 2011 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Rajiv Joseph |
| 2011 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Derek McLane |
| 2011 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Cricket S. Myers |
| 2011 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | ACME Sound Partners |
| 2011 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | David Lander |
| 2011 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Broadway Play | 0 |
| 2011 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Derek McLane |
| 2011 | Theatre World Awards | Performance | Arian Moayed |
| 2011 | Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design of a Play | David Lander |
| 2011 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Arian Moayed |
| 2011 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Play | Cricket S. Myers |
| 2011 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Play | Acme Sound Partners |
| 2010 | The Pulitzer Prize | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Rajiv Joseph |
| 2010 | The Pulitzer Prize | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Rajiv Joseph |
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