A Tenured Professor. A Talented Student. A Troubling Favor. The riveting and enthralling new play THE SOUND INSIDE is a stunningly suspenseful piece of theatre that proves: everyone has a story-the question is how it ends.
Tony, Golden Globe, Emmy winner Mary-Louise Parker will star in the Broadway premiere of THE SOUND INSIDE, written by Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter), directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer (The Band's Visit).
Ms. Parker will revisit her acclaimed performance as "Bella" in Rapp's new play following its world premiere last summer at Williamstown Theatre Festival (New York Times "Critic's Pick"). Will Hochman will make his Broadway debut reprising his role as "Christopher."
As played in this gorgeous piece of theater by Mary Louise Parker - and, heaven forfend, what a complete performance! - Bella is a fiftyish woman, a professor of creative writing who sacrificed her personal life to a climb up the academic tentpole to a position at Yale University. She's the maybe-unreliable narrator of her own story, self-critical and fiendishly intelligent, even if she never has been all that productive. Couple of minor things published. That's been it. Still, a life to fill the years.
David Cromer directs his two actors as if they were accomplices in a crime. (It helps that Bella and Christopher repeatedly discuss Dostoevsky and his murderous antihero Raskolnikov.) There's something bordering on the obscene about many of these chat fests. That the two never get intimate in the physical sense only adds to the overall discomfort. What Bella and Christopher write is far more revealing than anything they tell each other, or do. They can hide from everyone on campus, but not each other.
2018 | Williamstown, MA (Regional) |
World Premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival Williamstown, MA (Regional) |
2019 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2020 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play | Heather Gilbert |
2020 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Will Hochman |
2020 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Mary-Louise Parker |
2020 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | David Cromer |
2020 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Heather Gilbert |
2020 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Broadway Play | The Sound Inside |
2020 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Projection Design | Aaron Rhyne |
2020 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Sound Design | Daniel Kluger |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | David Cromer |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design of a Play | Heather Gilbert |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Original Score | Daniel Kluger |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Mary-Louise Parker |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Adam Rapp |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Play | Daniel Kluger |
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