The Lincoln Center Theater production of Sarah Ruhl's Becky Nurse of Salem officially opened December 4 at Off-Broadway's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.
Rebecca Taichman (Indecent) directs a cast led by Deirdre O'Connell, 2022 Tony winner for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for her performance in Dana H.
O'Connell is joined by Tina Benko, Candy Buckley, Alicia Crowder, Thomas Jay Ryan, Julian Sanchez, and Bernard White.
Check out photos from opening night below:
Tina Benko and Thomas Jay Ryan at opening night of Becky Nurse of Salem
Bernard White at opening night of Becky Nurse of Salem
Candy Buckley at opening night of Becky Nurse of Salem
Glori Dei Filippone, Timiki Salinas, Amy Warren, and Polly Noonan at opening night of Becky Nurse of Salem
Sarah Ruhl and Rebecca Taichman at opening night of Becky Nurse of Salem
Bernard White and Deirdre O'Connell at opening night of Becky Nurse of Salem
Alicia Crowder and Deirdre O'Connell at opening night of Becky Nurse of Salem
Deirdre O'Connell at opening night of Becky Nurse of Salem
Rebecca Taichman, Gloria Steinem, Christine Lahti, and Sarah Ruhl at opening night of Becky Nurse of Salem
Fran Lebowitz at opening night of Becky Nurse of Salem
Julian Sanchez, Bernard White, and Thomas Jay Ryan at opening night of Becky Nurse of Salem
The company with Sarah Ruhl and Rebecca Taichman at opening night of Becky Nurse of Salem
Sarah Ruhl, Deirdre O'Connell and Rebecca Taichman at opening night of Becky Nurse of Salem
The dark contemporary comedy follows Becky (O鈥機onnell), a modern-day descendent of accused witch Rebecca Nurse. Becky, who works at the local Salem witch museum, seems to be dogged by bad luck as she looks for love and redemption through spells, pills, and a bartender named Bob (White).
Becky Nurse of Salem has sets by Riccardo Hernandez, costumes by Emily Rebholz, lighting by Barbara Samuels, sound by Palmer Hefferan, and projections by Tal Yarden. Suzzy Roche is the composer, and Caroline Englander is the stage manager.
Ruhl is also the playwright of How to Transcend a Happy Marriage; The Oldest Boy; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist); The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday; Stage Kiss; Dear Elizabeth; Passion Play, a cycle; Dead Man鈥檚 Cell Phone (Helen Hayes Award); Melancholy Play; Eurydice; Orlando; and Late: a cowboy song.
