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With a nod to Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar has crafted a beautifully multi-layered play, simultaneously a loving domestic comedy and a serious, far-reaching story about faith, doubt, and the search for truth.
Sep 30, 2024 · Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar’s new play is a startling and wickedly smart examination of the inescapable humanity – and increasing inhumanity – of the stories we tell.
Sep 3, 2024 · The Lincoln Center Theater production of McNEAL, a new play by Ayad Akhtar, directed by Bartlett Sher opened last night at the Vivian Beaumont Theater! See photos of stars on the red carpet!
Oct 17, 2024 · Robert Downey Jr. stars in “McNeal,” the gripping new play by Ayad Akhtar currently running at the Lincoln Center Theater, produced by Susan Downey.
Sep 30, 2024 · In the new play from Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. makes his Broadway debut as Jacob McNeal, a celebrated novelist drinking himself toward liver failure as he desperately awaits the Nobel Prize in Literature he so cherishes.
2018 Tony Award Nomination for Best Play. “Akhtar has written a modern-day morality tale that scrupulously questions the possibility of moral choice in a world where money, the new might, now makes right.”. — Los Angeles Times. “…as close to reality as theater gets….riveting.”. — The New York Times. It’s 1985.
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Feb 22, 2018 · “Junk” — the sprawling, weighty drama by Ayad Akhtar exploring the underhanded world of junk bonds and Wall Street in the 1980s — is this year’s winner of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama...