Photo Coverage: Opening Night of WHAT DID YOU EXPECT at The Public Theater

By: Linda Lenzi Sep. 17, 2016

Tony-winning writer and director Richard Nelson returns to The Public with the next play in his new three-play cycle, THE GABRIELS: Election Year in the Life of One Family. The second play, WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?, brings us back to the kitchen of the Gabriel family, with the country now in the midst of the general election for president. In the course of one evening in the house they grew up in, history (both theirs and our country's), money, politics, family, art and culture are chopped up and mixed together, while a meal is made around the kitchen table. WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE, will track the lives of the Gabriels throughout the coming presidential election year with the final play opening in real time on Election Night, November 8, 2016.

The company of What Did You Expect includes Meg Gibson, Lynn Hawley, Roberta Maxwell, Maryann Plunkett, Jay O. Sanders, and Amy Warren.

For more information, visit The Public's website at publictheater.org.

Photo Credit: Linda Lenzi

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Meg Gibson, Jay O. Sanders, Lynn Hawley, Roberta Maxwell, Maryann Plunkett and Amy Warren

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Jay O. Sanders, Meg Gibson, Lynn Hawley, Amy Warren, Maryann Plunkett, Roberta Maxwell and Richard Nelson

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