Nightlands
BY SYLVAN OSWALD
DIRECTED BY TAMILLA WOODARD
THESE ARE THE NIGHTLANDS.
ENORMOUS BLUEPURPLE SKY.
AND I’M
IN IT.
part of New Dramatists’ Full Stage New York
WITH
LINDA MARIE LARSON
POLLY LEE
RACHEL LESLIE
MICHAEL MILLIGAN
HUBERT POINT-DU JOUR
DESIGN
STEPHEN ARNOLD
HILLARY CHARNAS
EMILY DEANGELIS
JIM FINDLAY
From under her auburn beehive wig, Netta Klein dreams of a life beyond Northeast Philadelphia routine. Down on Columbia Avenue, the stars talk and we listen… Ivy Silver’s your host on community-access radio. It’s August, 1964. And the sparks that fly between two women are about to ignite an entire city.
“We are in history now,” one character says as the simmering tensions finally burst loose near the end. When “Nightlands” is at its strongest, it reminds us that that statement is always true.” — The New York Times
“A big beautiful play” – nytheatre.com
“An arresting tale of an unlikely love affair set against the roiling racism of the early 1960s” – backstage.com
