Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize Winning BURIED CHILD Comes to Black Box PAC

The Black Box Performing Arts Center continues to emerge as the Tri-State area's premiere destination for both cutting-edge professional theater and collaborative performing arts education - in the heart of Teaneck, NJ- just a quick ride over the George Washington Bridge.

Sam Shepard's Buried Child, winter of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize, continues BBPAC's second full 2017-18 season of professional theater, which includes four more 'mainstage' productions, two ongoing immersive late-night rock musicals, two ongoing pop musicals for kids, and the development of at least three original works for the stage.

This new production of Buried Child - presented in special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., NY - is directed by BBPAC Artistic Director Matt Okin, produced byBlack Box Studios, and features a stellar cast of BBPAC mainstays and newcomers: Zach Abraham, Jason Felix, Michael Gardiner, Bishon Prushankin, Joseph Ramondino, Lisa Tiger and Laurence Wallace with Assistant Director/Production Designer Nachi Lederer.

Buried Child will play over three weekends only, from November 2 through November 19,Thursday through Sundays at 8:00pm, at Black Box Studios' new home, Teaneck's Black Box Performing Arts Center (200 Walraven Drive. (just off Palisade Ave., GPS: 290 Walraven Drive), Teaneck, NJ 07666.

In this winner of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Sam Shepard takes a hysterically comedic and macabre look at one American Midwestern family with a very dark secret. When Vince brings his girlfriend, Shelly, home to meet his family, she is at first charmed by the "normal" looking farm house which she compares to a "Norman Rockwell cover or something"--that's before she actually meets his crazy family-- his ranting, alcoholic grandparents (Dodge and Halie) and their two sons: Tilden, a hulking semi-idiot, and Bradley, who has lost one leg to a chain saw. Strangely, no one seems to remember Vince at first, and they treat him as an intruder. Eventually, however, they seem to accept him as a part of their uniquely dysfunctional American family...