Photo Flash: First Look at Sheri Rene Scott in WHORL INSIDE A LOOP at Second Stage

A first look at the highly anticipated world premiere Whorl Inside a Loop have just been released! The production, starring Sherie Renee Scott, is now in performances at Second Stage Theatre (43rd Street and 8th Avenue) and officially opens on Thursday, August 27. Check out photos below!

WHORL INSIDE A LOOP is a new play by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott and co-directed by Michael Mayer and Mr. Scanlan, the creative team behind the Tony-nominated, critically acclaimed hit, Everyday Rapture, which had its world premiere at Second Stage Theatre in 2009. Sherie Rene Scott is joined by Derrick Baskin (...Spelling Bee), Nicholas Christopher (Motown), Chris Myers (An Octoroon), Ryan Quinn (King Lear), Daniel J. Watts (In the Heights), and Donald Webber, Jr. (Motown).

A well-regarded actress agrees to teach six inmates how to tell their stories behind the bars of a men's maximum security prison. Sharing intimate and sometimes hilarious details of their former lives, this unlikely group forms a bond -- even as the actress' life outside spins out of control. And when what happens in prison doesn't stay there, no one is sure who to trust. From the team that brought you Everyday Rapture, this new play features Sherie Rene Scott and six men playing two dozen characters in a constant shifting of scenes, ages, genders and races. Whorl Inside a Loop explores the fine line between convicted felons and the criminal inside each of us, the viability of forgiveness and the unreliability of redemption.

Photos by Joan Marcus