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Daniel Jenkins, Keith Reddin, Kathleen Chalfant and Lisa Emery; photo by Joan Marcus

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Full cast; photo by Joan Marcus

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Lisa Emery, Keith Reddin, David Chandler, Kathleen Chalfant, and Daniel Jenkins

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Kathleen Chalfant, Daniel Jenkins, Keith Reddin, and Lisa Emery; photo by Joan Marcus

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Full cast; photo by Joan Marcus

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Sarah Ruhl; photo by Zack DeZon

For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday


Mainstage Theater


Written by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Les Waters

New York premiere

Ann
I took off my green tights. But before I went home, I stayed in the theater for a little while longer. Where you don’t have to grow up.

Playing Peter Pan at her hometown children’s theater is one of Ann’s fondest, most formative memories. Now, 50 years later, Neverland calls again, casting her and her siblings back to this faraway dreamscape where the refusal to grow up confronts the inevitability of growing old. In her highly anticipated return to Playwrights, Sarah Ruhl conjures a tender, yearning tale that flies in the face of time, in the search for a second youth.

Featuring
Creative Team
David Zinn
Scenic Designer
Kristopher Castle
Costume Designer
Matt Frey
Lighting Designer
Charles Coes
Sound Design/Original Music
Bray Poor
Sound Design/Original Music
Ryan Bourque
Fight and Fly Director
William Berloni
Animal Trainer
ZFX Flying Effects
Flying Effects
Amanda Spooner
Production Stage Manager

Design Team Bios

Special thanks to the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater for its generous support of this production.

Reviews
  • “A sweet spot for Sarah Ruhl. Pairing philosophical daring and surreal tenderness.”

    — Jesse Green, The New York Times
  • “Another role for the legendary Kathleen Chalfant to inhabit with gusto and intelligence.”

    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker