Appropriate's Ella Beatty Feels the Impact of Family Legacy Both On and Off Stage
On March 25, Ella Beatty joined the Broadway cast of Appropriate"Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' dark comedy about a dead patriarch's messy family legacy. Her character isn't a member of the central Lafayette family per se. Rather, she plays River, the too-young fiancée to Franz Lafayette (played by Michael Esper) with an earnest belief in the power of sage and a bad habit of accidental cultural appropriation (River, as you…