Babbitt (Regional, La Jolla Playhouse - Mandell Weiss Center, 2023) | Playbill

Babbitt

Regional
Play


SYNOPSIS:

Multi-award-winning star of stage and screen Matthew Broderick and Tony Award-winning playwright Joe DiPietro (Diana, Memphis) join forces with our own Christopher Ashley and a stellar cast for this remarkable theatrical event.

Babbitt entered the zeitgeist in 1922 as a novel by white-hot satirist Sinclair Lewis, the first American Nobel Laureate. An instant literary classic, Babbitt has been a stalwart on ‘best ever’ lists for over 100 years, and is now adapted for the stage.

George F. Babbitt is a middle-aged real estate broker in the Midwestern city of Zenith. By day, he has a prosperous, respectable middle-class existence. By night, he’s plagued by the thought that he has amounted to nothing. Searching for more to life than his top-of-the-line toaster and hickory golf club ― more meaning ― Babbitt leaps with abandon into the most spectacular rebellion of his life ― one that could end up costing him everything.



Directed by Christopher Ashley

Featuring Matthew Broderick, Anna Chlumsky, Ann Harada, Julie Halston, Genevieve Angelson, Francis Jue, Matt McGrath, Chris Myers, Jalen Davidson, Iris (Liting) Feng, Victor Flores, Kya Lee, Linda Libby

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