After the Revolution
- Written by Amy Herzog
- Directed by Carolyn Cantor
AMY HERZOG won the 2012 Obie Award for Best New American Play for 4000 Miles (Lincoln Center). Her other plays include After the Revolution (Williamstown Theater Festival; Playwrights Horizons; John Gassner Award Nomination; Lilly Award), Belleville (Yale Repertory Theater, upcoming at NYTW in Spring 2013), and The Wendy Play (ACT, San Francisco). She has had readings/workshops at Steppenwolf, Manhattan Theater Club, New York Stage and Film, Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and Lincoln Center, among others. She has received commissions from Playwrights Horizons, Yale Rep, and Steppenwolf. Amy is a recipient of the Whiting Writers Award and the Helen Merrill Award. She is an alumna of Youngblood, Play Group, and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. She has taught playwriting at Bryn Mawr and Yale. M.F.A., Yale School of Drama (As of October 2012)
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Playwrights Horizons: Fly By Night, The Great God Pan, After the Revolution (Callaway Award), and Essential Self-Defense. Other NY Theater: Regrets and Pumpgirl (Manhattan Theatre Club); In A Dark Dark House (MCC Theater); Arlington (Vineyard); Something You Did (Primary Stages); The Talls (Second Stage); Core Values (Ars Nova); Orange Flower Water, Now That's What I Call A Storm, Living Room in Africa, Stone Cold Dead Serious, and Life is a Dream (Edge Theater); EVE-olution (Cherry Lane); and Kitty Kitty Kitty (SPF). Regional: The Violet Hour (Old Globe); Rabbit Hole (Geffen, Garland Award); Diary of Anne Frank (Papermill); Not Waving and King Stag (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Vera Laughed and Get What You Need (NYS&F); After Ashley and Finer Noble Gases (Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference); and Nocturne (Ojai Playwrights Conference). Carolyn is the recipient of the Kanin-Seldes Award from the Theater Hal of Fame, both the Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller Fellowships from the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and a Drama League Directing Fellowship. She was the founding artistic director of the Obie Award—winning Edge Theater and is a graduate of Dartmouth College. (As of 2/2/15)
The brilliant, promising Emma Joseph proudly carries the torch of her family’s Marxist tradition, devoting her life to the memory of her blacklisted grandfather. But when history reveals a shocking truth about the man himself, the entire family is forced to confront questions of honesty and allegiance they thought had been resolved. After the Revolution is a bold and moving portrait of an American family, thrown into an intergenerational tailspin, forced to reconcile a thorny and delicate legacy.
Featuring
Mark Blum
Peter Friedman
Meredith Holzman
David Margulies
Katharine Powell
Lois Smith
Elliot Villar
Mare Winningham
Playwrights Horizons: After the Revolution; Little Footsteps; Gus and Al (Obie Award), Table Settings; Say Goodnight, Gracie. Broadway: The Assembled Parties, The Best Man, Twelve Angry Men, A Thousand Clowns, Lost in Youngers. Other Off-Broadway: The Model Apartment; The Good Mother; Lonely, I’m Not; We Live Here; Picked; Singing Forest; The Long Christmas Ride Home; The Waverly Gallery; Mizlanski Zilinski; It’s Only a Play; Key Exchange. Film: How We Fell in Love, Blumenthal, Shattered Glass, Desperately Seeking Susan, Crocodile Dundee, The Presidio, Blind Date, Worth Winning, Lovesick. TV: “Mozart in the Jungle” and many more.
Playwrights Horizons: After the Revolution, The Great God Pan (Amy Herzog); Circle Mirror Transformation (Annie Baker); The Shaggs (Gregory, Lang, Madsen); Fly By Night (Connolly, Mitnick, Rosenstock); The Heidi Chronicles (Wendy Wasserstein). Broadway: Ragtime (Ahrens, Flaherty, McNally), The Heidi Chronicles, Twelve Angry Men, The Tenth Man. Other Off-Broadway: Sundown, Yellow Moon (Bonds); Her Requiem (Pierce); The Nether (Haley); End Days (Laufer); Jacuzzi (The Debate Society); The Open House (Eno); The Hatmaker’s Wife (Yee); Body Awareness (Baker, and her adaptation of) Uncle Vanya; Hamlet (The Public, 2017). Film: The Savages, Safe, Single White Female. TV: “High Maintenance,” “The Muppet Show,” “The Affair,” “The Path.”
(as of 8/24/17)
Is thrilled to be making her Off-Broadway debut! Recent theater credits include After the Revolution (Williamstown Theatre Festival); As It is in Heaven (Stonington Opera House); Never the Sinner (Woodshed Collective); Los Angeles, Screenplay and Jabu (The Flea). She holds a B.F.A. from NYU where she attended Playwrights Horizons Theater School. Many thanks to Carolyn, Amy, Hannah and the cast for all their support. She would like to dedicate this performance to her parents, Jim and Jonnie. (As of October 2010)
Broadway credits include Conversations With My Father (in which he co-starred), Comedians, The West Side Waltz, Wonderful Town, 45 Seconds From Broadway, Angels In America (where he was the third and last of the Roy Cohns) and Brighton Beach Memoirs. Off-Broadway: All That I Will Ever Be, The Accomplices (Actors Equity’s Richard Seff Award 2007 for both). Playwrights Horizons: The Perfect Party. Regionally: Lil’s 90th, The Price, Rocket to the Moon, She Stoops To Conquer (Long Wharf), The Rivals (Hartford Stage), Hamlet (McCarter Theatre), Hysteria as Freud (Mark Taper Forum), The Happy Time (Arlington’s Signature Theatre, Helen Hayes Award 2008), The Chosen (Portland Center Stage, 2010 Drammy award). Films: the upcoming Roadie, Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2 (as the Mayor of New York), All That Jazz, Dressed To Kill, Ira and Abby, 9 1/2 Weeks, and more. He was Tony Soprano’s lawyer Neil Mink. (As of October 2010)
Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention; Off-Broadway: Election Day, The Water’s Edge (Second Stage); The Voysey Inheritance (Atlantic); Smashing (Play Company). Regional: After The Revolution (Williamstown), Happy Now? (Yale Rep), The Farnsworth Invention (La Jolla Playhouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (A.R.T.), Three Sisters (A.C.T.). Film: The Girl In The Park, Oranges, The Baxter. TV: “Guiding Light,” “Out Of Practice,” “Without A Trace.” Education: NYU: M.F.A.; Brown, B.A. Katharine would like to thank her mother and father, Donna, and Ben. She dedicates this performance to Sam. (As of October 2010)
Playwrights: Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime, Amy Herzog’s After the Revolution, Kate Fodor’s 100 Saints You Should Know. Other favorites: Broadway, Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending, and The Grapes of Wrath and Sam Shepard’s Buried Child (both from Steppenwolf); Off-Broadway, Horton Foote’s The Trip to the Bountiful and The Old Friends, Tony Kushner’s The Illusion, Sam Shepard’s Heartless, Annie Baker’s John (Signature) and Lily Thorne’s Peace for Mary Frances (New Group). Recent films: Marjorie Prime, Lady Bird.
(Updated 8/20/18)
Playwrights Horizons debut. Off-Broadway: The Age of Iron (CSC), Coraline (MCC), The Brothers Size (The Public), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NYSF). Regional: Williamstown, Huntington Theatre Company, The Studio, Yale Rep, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Theatre Company. Film: The Rebound, Two Lovers. TV: “Mercy,” “Law & Order,” “The Beautiful Life,” “The Return of Jezebel James.” Awards: The Oliver Thorndike Acting Award. Education: BA, Vassar College; MFA, Yale School of Drama. (As of October 2010)
Playwrights Horizons: After the Revolution. Broadway: Casa Valentina (MTC, Tony nomination), Picnic (Roundabout). Other Off-Broadway: Her Requiem (Lincoln Center), Tribes (Barrow Street, Lortel nomination), 10 Million Miles (Atlantic, Lortel Award). Film: Georgia (Academy Award nomination); Turner and Hooch; Wyatt Earp; St. Elmo's Fire; Mirror, Mirror; Philomena and upcoming The Seagull. TV: two Emmy Awards and eight total nominations, most recently for HBO's "Mildred Pierce" and History Channel's "Hatfields & McCoys." Recurring roles on "American Horror Story" and Showtime’s “The Affair.”
Creative Team
Clint Ramos
Scenic DesignerKaye Voyce
Costume DesignerBen Stanton
Lighting DesignerFitz Patton
Sound DesignerHannah Cohen
Production Stage ManagerPlaywrights Horizons: sets and/or costumes for Bella, After the Revolution, Bootycandy, Familiar. With Robert O’Hara: Barbecue, A Raisin in the Sun, Five Guys Named Moe, Wild With Happy. Broadway: sets and/or costumes for Once On This Island, Six Degrees…, Sunday in the Park…, In Transit, Eclipsed, The Elephant Man (also West End), Violet. Other Off-Broadway: Torch Song, Here Lies Love (also London), Sweet Charity, Kid Victory, Appropriate, many others. Over 200 regional/international credits. Encores! Off-Center series. Awards: Tony, Obie (Sustained Excellence), two ATW Henry Hewes, three Lortels, TDF Irene Sharraf Young Master, Helen Hayes. @clintramos
Kaye Voyce is a costume and set designer active in theater, opera, dance and performance. She received her BFA and MFA in theatrical design from New York University in 1994. She is represented by Rachel Viola at United Talent Agency.
Ben is a lighting designer for theater, concerts, dance, installations, and events. He is a five-time Tony Award nominee as well as an Obie, Lortel, IRNE, and Ovation Award winner. Ben is currently represented on Broadway by Maybe Happy Ending at the Belasco Theater. Recent Broadway credits include The Notebook at the Schoenfeld Theater; Mary Jane starring Rachel McAdams; Days of Wine and Roses Starring Kelli O'Hara & Brian Darcy James; Goodnight, Oscar starring Sean Hayes; The Collaboration Starring Paul Bettany & Jeremy Pope; Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Featuring Jefferson Mays; The Rose Tattoo starring Marisa Tomei; Derren Brown: SECRET at the James Earl Jones Theater; Regina Spektor: Live On Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater; Ayad Akhtar’s JUNK at the Vivian Beaumont; Six Degrees of Separation starring Allison Janney, Corey Hawkins, and John Benjamin Hickey; Deaf West Theater’s Spring Awakening at the Lena Horne Theater; Fully Committed starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson; and Fun Home (Broadway, Off-Broadway, 1st National Tour, London).
Photos of (1) Peter Friedman, Mark Blum, Mare Winningham, Katharine Powell, and Lois Smith; (2) Mare Winningham and Peter Friedman; (3) Katharine Powell and David Margulies; and (4) Katharine Powell and Elliot Villar by Joan Marcus.
CRITICS' PICK! Smart and engrossing. A fine and fiercely well-acted new play by Amy Herzog. Directed with finesse by Carolyn Cantor, the scenes crackle with lively, natural dialogue.
A terrific production. A dream ensemble. An extraordinary balance of humor, insight, and surprise.
Genuinely heartfelt. An expert cast. Peter Friedman, Mark Blum, Lois Smith and David Margulies shine.
