Playwrights Horizons and Breaking the Binary Theatre's world premiere of Sarah Mantell's In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot officially opened Off-Broadway on the company's mainstage October 28, and the reviews are in. Performances will continue through November 17, with Sivan Battat directing.
The cast features Barsha (formerly known as Debra Barsha) as Horowitz, Sandra Caldwell (Sophisticated Ladies) as El, Donnetta Lavinia Grays (The Skin of Our Teeth) as Jen, Ianne Fields Stewart (Pose) as Sara, Deirdre Lovejoy (Lucky Guy) as Ani, Tulis McCall (What Everywoman Knows) as Ash, and Pooya Mohseni (Madam Secretary) as Maribel.
A work of speculative fiction, the play follows a band of queer warehouse workers traveling from job to job as oceans rise and coastlines recede.
Read the reviews below.
New York Magazine/Vulture (Sara Holdren)*
New York Stage Review (Michael Sommers)
TheaterMania (Zachary Stewart)
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Playbill will continue to update this list as reviews come in.
The production features scenic design by Emmie Finckel, costume design by Mel Ng, lighting design by Cha See, and sound design by Sinan Refik Zafar. The creative team also includes voice, text, and dialect coach Gigi Buffington, dramaturg Zeina Salame, intimacy coordinator Alex Might, production stage manager Ryan Gohsman, and assistant stage manager Holly Adam.
Tickets are available at PlaywrightsHorizons.org.
