Disgraced 2014
Run Time:
One hour and 30 minutes
One hour and 30 minutes
Ages: 13+
Opened: October 23, 2014Closing: March 01, 2015
Disgraced - 2014 - Broadway History , Info & More
Lyceum Theatre (Broadway)
149 W. 45th St. New York, NY 10036
DISGRACED is the story of a successful Muslim-American attorney who has renounced his religion and secured a coveted piece of the American Dream. Living high above Manhattan's Upper East Side, he and his artist wife host an intimate dinner party that is about to explode. Witty banter turns to vicious debate, and with each cocktail comes a startling new confession, painting an unforgettable portrait of our perception of race and religion.
Reviewing DISGRACED at LCT3 for The New York Times, Charles Isherwood wrote:
"This rollicking new play by Ayad Akhtar is a continuously engaging, vitally engaged play about thorny questions of identity and religion in the contemporary world. The dialogue bristles with wit and intelligence. Mr. Akhtar puts contemporary attitudes toward religion under a microscope, revealing how tenuous self-image can be for people born into one way of being who have embraced another."
Disgraced - 2014 - Broadway Cast
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'Disgraced': Theater Review
8 / 10
First seen in New York in a lauded 2012 run as part of Lincoln Center Theater's emerging artists program, this Broadway transfer is smart, spiky entertainment...director Kimberly Senior's production deftly modulates its way through the play's seismic mood shifts -- from complacent banter through mounting prickliness and incendiary animosity to shattered aftermath. However, to get the quibbles out of the way first, any flaws are most likely to be noticed by that small handful of the audience returning to Disgraced after seeing its superior previous incarnation...Radnor (How I Met Your Mother) is a standout among the accomplished cast, walking a fine line between relaxed charm and smug condescension as a man unaccustomed to self-examination.
Josh Radnor plays a fine jerk, but ‘Disgraced’ remains a flawed play
5 / 10
'Disgraced' was far from perfect when it opened off-Broadway two years ago, but it worked up to a point...Now 'Disgraced' is back, with a new cast, on Broadway at that. But the bigger stage hasn't been kind to the show. Because the play seems like a PowerPoint lecture about current hot topics -- terrorism, Islam, Jews, religion, art -- it requires excellent acting. Pity the performances here are wildly uneven, and a couple of them are downright bad. Purists may look suspiciously at Josh Radnor...But Radnor's actually quite good as Isaac, a smarmy, smug Whitney Museum curator -- and Karen Pittman, the original cast's lone survivor, is even better as Isaac's no-nonsense wife, Jory. No, the problems are Hari Dhillon and Gretchen Mol. Inconveniently they play the leads, attorney Amir Kapoor and his wife, the WASP-y painter Emily. And they're never believable -- either as a couple or as, you know, people.
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Disgraced FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What productions of Disgraced have there been?
Disgraced has had 2 productions including Off-Broadway which opened in 2012 and Broadway which opened in 2014.
What Tony Awards has Disgraced been nominated for?
Disgraced has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play.
What awards has Disgraced been nominated for?
Disgraced has been nominated for the Theatre World Award (Theatre World Awards) for Karen Pittman.
What awards has Disgraced won?
Disgraced has won the Theatre World Award for Karen Pittman.
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