Broadway vet Steven Pasquale has made many a theater audience swoon with his golden singing voice. Now, he's making them lean forward in their seats for a different reason: a juicy leadi…
Director Doug Hughes moves the action along at rapid pace to match the nature of the activities of radical takeovers, inside trading and federal investigation.
A scene from the Lincoln Center Theater production of JUNK by Ayad Akhtar.Photo: T. Charles EricksonJunkBy Ayad AkhtarDirected by Douglas HughesLincoln Center TheaterThrough Jan. 7By Lauren …
A fascinating experiment is underway on Broadway. A substandard comedy that received, let's just say, mixed reviews out of town has been recast with fashionably hip actors in a new productio…
Ayad Akhtar's play portrays the financial excesses of the 1980s " part of what he calls "a collapse of a collective vision" of America " in ways that evoke unsettling new thoughts.
The protagonist of "Junk" is one Robert Merkin (Steven Pasquale), whose name alone is reminiscent of the real-life person he represents, Michael Robert Milken, the "Junk Bond King" of the mi…
Today, JUNK's Ito Aghayere speaks with BWW about her Broadway debut and explains why she remains a pragmatic optimist, despite the play's bleak depiction of the financialization of America.
A junk bond is a high-yield, high-risk maturity in the financial markets, and a greedy group of investors bought them and enjoyed the 10-12 percent interest that was sent out semi-annually, …
On the latest episode of the Maxamoo podcast, Diep, PennyMaria, and Lindsay talk about what they've seen on the stage lately, including Solstice Party, The Elephant in Every Room I Enter, Ve…
Diep, PennyMaria, and Lindsay what we've seen on the stage lately: Solstice Party! by Susan Soon He Stanton from Live Source Theatre Group at A.R.T/New York Theatres (0:50) The Elephant in E…
When Ayad Akhtar won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, he thought: “Well, very little good can come of this.” Akhtar, who won the award for his play “Disgraced,” tal…
Unless you are a math whiz or a business major, you may be bewildered by the financial concepts that are the underpinnings of Junk, the new play at Lincoln Center by Pulitzer-winning play…
If Shakespeare were still with us and writing history plays about kings and those seeking to usurp them, he'd not be looking to Holinshed's Chronicles for plot ideas. Instead, like Ayad Akhtar, he'd subscribe to the Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times< to find his dramatic personae
Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center is hosting the play titled "Junk" that will be running through January 7, 2018. The play written by Ayad Akhtar and directed by Doug Hughes deals wi…
He has stolen hearts in Madison county, robbed settlers on the Natchez Trace, and now he's thieving on Wall Street. Or at least the characters he's played have...
"When did money become the thing – the only thing?" a character asks at the beginning of "Junk," a play by Ayad Akhtar, who seems to answer: In the 1980s. Akhtar, the playwright of "Di…
by Carol Rocamora "This is a story of kings, or what passes for kings these days…" So goes the opening line of Junk, Ayad Akhtar's riveting morality tale of money …
In 2013, playwright Ayad Akhtar won the Pulitzer Prize for "Disgraced," which went on to bow on Broadway in 2014 and earn a Best Play nomination at the 2015 Tony Awards. His follow-up play, …
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