Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (An Octoroon) and Drama Desk Award winner Lila Neugebauer (The Waverly Gallery, 2ST’s Mary Page Marlowe) invite you to one helluva reunion in the darkly comic American family drama, APPROPRIATE.
It’s summer, the cicadas are singing, and the Lafayette family has returned to their late patriarch’s Arkansas home to deal with the remains of his estate. Toni (Paulson), the eldest daughter, hopes they’ll spend the weekend remembering and reconnecting over their beloved father. Bo, her brother, wants to recoup some of the funds he spent caring for Dad at the end of his life. But things take a turn when their estranged brother, Franz, appears late one night, and mysterious objects are discovered among the clutter. Suddenly, long-hidden secrets and buried resentments can’t be contained, and the family is forced to face the ghosts of their past.
Appropriate is a masterwork the likes of which crop up a handful of times per generation. Jacobs-Jenkins has crafted parallel statements on our relationships to ourselves and our families, convenient narratives and difficult truths, and ownership and entitlement, tied together by a profound clarity regarding the self-cannibalizing exploitation engendered by a pathological need to profit at all costs. Saluting the greatest works of modern theatre and the darkest lessons of human history, it deftly ties together the disparate strands of a country beholden to a state of perpetual haunting.
If you grew up with it, there’s something inherently nostalgic about the sound of cicadas. The incessant chorus, once every 17 years, conjures something primordial, unsettling, country, past. Appropriate, the excellent production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s play at the Helen Hayes Theater, plunges its audience into that portal at the show’s onset – all darkness and trilling racket. The sound design, lush and unnerving, is controlled by Bray Poor and Will Pickens.
General Rush:
Price: $45
Where: Belasco Theatre box office
When: When the box office opens on the day of the performance.
Limit: Two per customer.
Information: Subject to daily availability. The box office opens Tuesday through Saturday at 10 AM ET and Sunday at 12 PM ET.
Digital Lottery:
Price: $45
Where: rush.telecharge.com
When: 12 AM ET, one day before the performance.
Limit: Two per customer
Information: Tickets are subject to availability. Seats may be partial view. Winners will be drawn that same morning at 10 AM ET and then later that afternoon at 3 PM ET.
2014 | Off-Broadway |
Signature Theatre Company Production Off-Broadway |
2023 | Broadway |
Second Stage Original Broadway Production Broadway |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Direction of a Play | Lila Neugebauer |
2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play | Michael Esper |
2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play | Sarah Paulson |
2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design of a Play | Jane Cox |
2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Appropriate |
2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play | dots |
2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Sound Design of a Play | Bray Poor |
2024 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance | Sarah Paulson |
2024 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance | Corey Stoll |
2024 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Direction of a Play | Lila Neugebauer |
2024 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Appropriate |
2024 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Direction of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Lila Neugebauer |
2024 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play | Sarah Paulson |
2024 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Appropriate |
2024 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Scenic Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | dots |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Play | Dede Ayite |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Lila Neugebauer |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design of a Play | Jane Cox |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Corey Stoll |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Sarah Paulson |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Appropriate |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Play | dots |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Play | Bray Poor |
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