Initiative (Off-Broadway, Public Theater/LuEsther Hall, 2025) | Playbill

Initiative

Off-Broadway
Play
Original


SYNOPSIS:

A bittersweet reflection on adolescence at the dawn of the new millennium, Initiative charts the intertwined lives of seven teens from 2000-2004, as they become friends and more than friends, wrestle with their potential, face incalculable loss, and struggle to find their way in (and get out of) “Coastal Podunk, California.”



Directed by Emma Rose Went

Cast includes Olivia Rose Barresi, Greg Cuellar, Harrison Densmore, Carson Higgins, Andrea Lopez Alvarez, Jamie Sanders, Christopher Dylan White

  • Running Time: 5 hours, including intermissions (Saturday performances are 6 hours, including a 90-minute dinner break)
  • playwright: Else Went