Photo Flash: First Look at GRAND CONCOURSE at Artists Rep

Artists Repertory Theatre is delighted to bring the West Coast premiere of the comedic and touching GRAND CONCOURSE to Portland audiences. This tragicomedy is written by Pacific Northwest native Heidi Schreck, a graduate of the University of Oregon, who is now an award-winning playwright and acclaimed TV writer. With GRAND CONCOURSE, Schreck was a 2015 finalist for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and a nominee for the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

GRAND CONCOURSE takes place in an industrial soup kitchen in the Bronx, where we meet Shelley, a nun struggling to pray and questioning her life's work. Her world in service to the needy, alongside a Dominican immigrant security guard and joke-writing "regular," is rocked when a rainbow-haired college drop-out comes to volunteer. The girl's enthusiasm and erratic behavior will change the course of their lives. With touching humor this motley group unravels the intricacies of need, the vagaries of compassion and limits of forgiveness.

An Artists Rep Resident Artist, Director Joann Johnson has appeared in or directed dozens of productions at the theatre over the past 25years. To bring this play's compelling characters to life, JoAnn has cast the talented Artists Rep Resident Artists Ayanna Berkshire, Allen Nause, John San Nicolas and, making her Artists Rep debut, Jahnavi Alyssa.

For tickets and more information, visit www.artistsrep.org.

Photo Credit: Owen Carey