Pulitzer Prize and Tony® Award winner Bruce Norris’s acclaimed play, Downstate, will have its much-anticipated Broadway premiere this fall. Directed by three-time Tony® Award winner Joe Mantello, Downstate will begin previews Saturday, October 17, at the Booth Theatre (222 W. 45th St.) for a limited 12-week engagement. Opening night is set for Sunday, November 15.
In downstate Illinois, four men convicted of sex crimes against minors live together in a group home, their every movement governed by restrictions that continue to close in around them. The house’s fragile order begins to fracture as an accuser arrives to confront his abuser, bringing with him a storm of unspoken memories. Shockingly funny, savage and furiously political, Bruce Norris’s play pulls audiences into a world where punishment is unending, compassion itself can feel like a transgression, and forgiveness is always out of reach.