Off-Broadway NewsClare Barron’s Dance Nation ExtendsAgain Off-BroadwayThe play takes an unabashed look at preteen girlhood.
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Andrew Gans, Olivia Clement
May 16, 2018
Dance Nation at Playwrights Horizons
Joan Marcus
Playwrights Horizons’ production of Dance Nation, which officially openedMay 8, has extended its Off-Broadway run for a third and final time. The Relentless Award- and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning play by Clare Barron, directed and choreographed by Lee Sunday Evans, will now continue through July 1.
Clare Barron
Marc J. Franklin
In Dance Nation, which began previews April 13 in Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater, an “army” of pre-teen dancers compete for the top prize at the Boogie Down Grand Prix in Tampa Bay. What follows is a celebration of female ambition, ferocity, and unabashed preteen girlhood.
The cast is made up of Purva Bedi, Eboni Booth, Camila Canó-Flaviá, Ellen Maddow, Christina Rouner, Thomas Jay Ryan, Dina Shihabi, Lucy Taylor, and Ikechukwu Ufomadu.
The production features scenic design by Arnulfo Maldonado, costume design by Ásta Bennie Hostetter, lighting design by Barbara Samuels, and sound design by Brandon Wolcott. Production stage manager is Erin Gioia Albrecht.
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The new play from writer Clare Barron is a display of powerful female energy onstage.
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Eboni Booth, Purva Bedi, Lucy Taylor, Ellen Maddow, Dina Shihabi, Ikechukwu Ufomadu, Camila Canó-Flaviá, and Thomas Jay Ryan
Dance Nation at Playwrights Horizons
Joan Marcus
Purva Bedi, Eboni Booth, Dina Shihabi, Ellen Maddow, Lucy Taylor, Ikechukwu Ufomadu, and Camila Canó-Flaviá
Joan Marcus
Ikechukwu Ufomadu and Christina Rouner
Lucy Taylor, Camila Canó-Flaviá, Purva Bedi, Ellen Maddow, Eboni Booth, Dina Shihabi, and Ikechukwu Ufomadu
The play centers on an explosive family gathering where four estranged Korean American sisters reunite to perform a ritual honoring their father's passing.
