Photo Flash: First Look at Heidi Schreck's GRAND CONCOURSE at Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons' world premiere production of GRAND CONCOURSE, a new play by playwright and two-time Obie Award-winning actress Heidi Schreck (author of There Are No More Big Secrets, Creature, Showtime's "Nurse Jackie"), has an opening night set for Wednesday, November 12 at 7PM. The limited engagement will play through Sunday evening, November 30, at Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 West 42nd Street). Directed by Kip Fagan (The Revisionist, Asuncion), the play is the second production of the acclaimed theater company's 2014/2015 Season. It follows the critically-acclaimed Bootycandy, a new play written and directed by Robert O'Hara, which concludes its extended run this Sunday evening on the Mainstage.

Ms. Schreck is Playwrights Horizons' first Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence. She returns to the theater company as a writer, after having previously worked there as an award-winning original cast member of the hit production Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker.

The cast of GRAND CONCOURSE features Obie Award winner Quincy Tyler Bernstine (Mr. Burns and Far From Heaven at PH; In the Next Room...; Ruined), Ismenia Mendes (Your Mother's Copy of the Kama Sutra at PH; The Wayside Motor Inn), Bobby Moreno (Drama Desk nomination for Year of the Rooster) and Tony Award nominee and Obie Award winner Lee Wilkof (Assassins and Glance of a Landscape at PH; Breakfast at Tiffany's and Kiss Me, Kate on Broadway; the original Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors).

Called to a life of religious service, Shelley (Ms. Bernstine) is the devoted manager of a Bronx soup kitchen, but lately her heart's not quite in it. Enter Emma (Ms. Mendes): an idealistic but confused young volunteer with mixed intentions, whose recklessness pushes Shelley to the breaking point. With keen humor and startling compassion, Heidi Schreck's play navigates the mystery of faith, the limits of forgiveness, and the pursuit of something resembling joy.

The production features scenic design by Rachel Hauck, costume design by Jessica Pabst, lighting design by Matt Frey and sound design by Leah Gelpe. Production Stage Manager is Sunneva Stapleton.

Photos by Joan Marcus