Sweat 2017 - Articles Page 1.8
Run Time:
Two hours and 25 minutes, with one intermission
Two hours and 25 minutes, with one intermission
Ages: 14+
Opened: March 26, 2017Closing: June 25, 2017
Sweat - 2017 - Broadway History , Info & More
Studio 54 (Broadway)
254 West 54th St. New York, NY
With warm humor and tremendous heart, Lynn Nottage's Sweat tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets and laughs while working together on the line of a factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in the hard fight to stay afloat.
Kate Whoriskey directs this stunning new play about the collision of race, class, family and friendship, and the tragic, unintended costs of community without opportunity.
Sweat - 2017 - Broadway Cast
PREVIEW Sweat - 2017 - Broadway
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Sweat
8 / 10
Director Kate Whoriskey's fluid and propulsive staging benefits from an excellent cast led by the fearless triad of JohAnna Day, Michelle Wilson and Alison Wright, who play plant drones and tight friends destabilized when one of them moves into management. James Colby adds sensible notes as a kindhearted but ineffectual bartender, and the vibrant Khris Davis and Will Pullen are young buddies whose hope curdles into anger and violence. Sweat communicates its points with minimal fuss and maximum grit. Along with the rage, despair and violence, there's humor and abundant humanity.
'Sweat' is Lynn Nottage's new Broadway play about working-class frustrations
8 / 10
'Sweat' is inarguably a schematic socialist drama - and hardly the first to play at Broadway prices to mostly upper-middle-class urbanites - that clearly decided in advance what it wanted to say about the state of the nation. Its conclusion is not a surprise. But - and, along with a mordent wit, this is its mitigating strength and greatest asset - 'Sweat' also is a moral, passionate and richly articulated cri de coeur from one of America's leading African-American Playwrights aimed squarely at the ongoing inability of her hate-spewing white Brothers and Sisters to accurately locate the cause of their problems and to quit trying to drown the next worker trying to snag a spot in the lifeboat speeding away from the wreck of industrial America.
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Other Productions of Sweat
| 2016 | Off-Broadway |
New York Premiere at the Public Theater Off-Broadway |
| 2017 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
| 2019 | West End |
West End Transfer Production West End |
Sweat - 2017 Broadway Awards and Nominations
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| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Fight Choreography | U. Jonathan Toppo |
| 2017 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Lynn Nottage |
| 2017 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Johanna Day |
| 2017 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Michelle Wilson |
| 2017 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play | Sweat |
| 2017 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Kate Whoriskey |
| 2017 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Johanna Day |
| 2017 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Broadway Play | Sweat |
| 2017 | The Pulitzer Prize | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Lynn Nottage |
| 2017 | Theatre World Awards | Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performance | Carlo Albán |
| 2017 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Johanna Day |
| 2017 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Michelle Wilson |
| 2017 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Lynn Nottage |
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