Disgraced
One hour and 30 minutes
Disgraced - 2014 Broadway History , Info & More
Lyceum Theatre (Broadway)
149 W. 45th St. New York, NY 10036
DISGRACED is the story of a successful Muslim-American attorney who has renounced his religion and secured a coveted piece of the American Dream. Living high above Manhattan's Upper East Side, he and his artist wife host an intimate dinner party that is about to explode. Witty banter turns to vicious debate, and with each cocktail comes a startling new confession, painting an unforgettable portrait of our perception of race and religion.
Reviewing DISGRACED at LCT3 for The New York Times, Charles Isherwood wrote:
"This rollicking new play by Ayad Akhtar is a continuously engaging, vitally engaged play about thorny questions of identity and religion in the contemporary world. The dialogue bristles with wit and intelligence. Mr. Akhtar puts contemporary attitudes toward religion under a microscope, revealing how tenuous self-image can be for people born into one way of being who have embraced another."
Disgraced - 2014 - Broadway Cast
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Review: Broadway's 'Disgraced' Is Raw, Blistering
9 / 10
Akhtar's blistering 'Disgraced' opened Thursday on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre with a punch and power that won it a Pulitzer Prize. Few playwrights are examining what Akhtar does, certainly not with his insightfulness, and his play is breathtaking -- and not a little uncomfortable -- to watch. In the best of ways. An excellent five-person cast led by Hari Dhillon -- and beautifully directed by Kimberly Senior -- starts the play with swagger and confidence, building to horrific exchanges in which they are at each other's throats...Dhillon nails the master-of-the-universe strut and moves across the stage almost like a boxer when his anger is fueled, making his fall all the more painful, while Mol skillfully lets a silent gulf slowly emerge between her and her husband. But perhaps the best performances are turned in by Radnor (TV's 'How I Met Your Mother') and Pittman (Broadway's 'Good People'), two natural stage actors who get to be funny, outraged, needy, broken and feisty -- and manage to do it all in the 90-minute work.
‘Disgraced’ Theater Review: Josh Radnor, Gretchen Mol Join Hari Dhillon for a Broadway Brawl
8 / 10
The theater might not have entertained such a party gone bad since George and Martha invited Nick and Honey over for drinks in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'...Akhtar comes at every question with guns firing from all four corners. Two minutes into the dinner party, his ethnic construct doesn't seem contrived. It recedes, the Indian -- and African American characters turn out to be the foursomes' bona fide conservatives, and soon there's much more violence on stage than ever entered the heads of George, Martha, and guests. But, and this is a significant 'but,' there's another 30 minutes to 'Disgraced.' Akhtar brackets his dinner party from the Ninth Circle with scenes between Amir and his nephew (Danny Ashok)...It's baffling and more than a little unsatisfying to have a minor character undergo the play's greatest metamorphosis and to do so offstage when the major characters are fighting it out onstage.
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Disgraced History
Other Productions of Disgraced
| 2012 | Off-Broadway |
Lincoln Center Theater LCT3 Production Off-Broadway |
| 2014 | Broadway |
Broadway Premiere Production Broadway |
Disgraced - 2014 Broadway Awards and Nominations
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Theatre World Awards | Theatre World Award | Karen Pittman |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Greenleaf Productions |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Ayad Akhtar |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Rachel Weinstein |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Alden Bergson |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | The David Merrick Arts Foundation |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | The Shubert Organization |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Jere Harris |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Darren DeVerna |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | TNTDynaMite Productions |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Ashley DeSimone |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Carl Levin |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Jonathan Reinis |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Jessica Genick |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Tulchin/Bartner Productions |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Stephanie P. McClelland |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Rodger Hess |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Richard Winkler |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Amanda Watkins |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Jenifer Evans |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Lincoln Center Theater |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Play | The Araca Group |
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