Theater News: Lupita Nyong'o-Led Eclipsed Extends Run
Liesl Tommy directs Danai Gurira's drama at the Public Theater.
Liesl Tommy directs Danai Gurira's drama at the Public Theater.
Unsurprisingly, Lupita Nyong’o is proving to be a hot ticket! The New York premiere of Eclipsed, headlined by the Oscar winner, will extend through November 15; the off-Broadway limite…
Nyong'o makes her New York stage debut in the upcoming Public Theater production of Danai Gurira's work.
The Public Theaterannounced complete casting today for the New York premiere of ECLIPSED, written by Danai Gurira. Directed by Obie Award winner Liesl Tommy and featuring Academy Award winne…
Saycon Sengbloh, Pascale Armand, Akosua Busia and Zainab Jah will join the previously announced Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o in the New York premiere of Eclipsed. Directed by Liesl Tomm…
The Public Theater has announced complete casting for the Off-Broadway premiere of Danai Gurira's Eclipsed, starring "12 Years a Slave" Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’…
Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave) comes to The Public in the New York premiere of ECLIPSED, the stunning, deeply moving play by award-winning Zimbabwean-American Playwri…
The Oscar winning actress (12 Years A Slave) will play “The Girl” in the NYC premiere of Danai Gurira’s drama, which “looks at the terrible conflicts in post-colonial…
The Oscar winner will star in the Public Theater's war drama this fall.read more
The Academy Award-winning actress will star in a play by the Obie Award-winning playwright Danai Gurira.
BroadwayWorld has just learned that Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o will make her New York stage debut this fall in the NYC premiere of Danai Gurira's new dramaECLIPSED, just added to The Public…
Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o will headline the New York premiere of Eclipsed. Directed by Liesl Tommy and penned by Danai Gurira, the production, which has just been added to the Public…
Playwright Danai Gurira says the inspiration for her new play, Eclipsed, came from a photograph one of her professors showed her when she was in graduate school.
It's a gut-wrenching saga told with poignancy and wit, precisely the kind of niche today's cutting-edge theater strives to fill.
It's a surprisingly vivacious portrait of helplessness, of the entirely human impulse to adapt, to get by even when there's little hope life will get better.
"Eclipsed" can best be classified as a kind of theatrical sociology. And interestingly, if not paradoxically, this is the source of both its artistic weakness and its cultural strength.
Acting and design rich with the genuine breath of life more than compensate for a dearth of action.