Sweat
Two hours and 25 minutes, with one intermission
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
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'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.
Theater Review: Lynn Nottage’s Sweat Tells But Doesn’t Show
7 / 10
What I realized seeing the play again is that its central conflict - between Tracey, who is white, and Cynthia, who is black - is trumped-up. This is not to say that longtime friendships have not been shattered over work disputes, or that work disputes have not surfaced the subcutaneous racism of white people hanging on to their last scrap of privilege. But nothing in Sweat convinces us that these particular women, as established, could develop in the way the play forces them to. Tracey especially, despite Johanna Day's valiant performance, is bent so far out of shape by the dramatic agenda that she no longer makes any sense.
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Sweat History
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
| 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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