The World Premiere
Of EXCEPTION TO THE RULE
By DAVE HARRIS
Directed by MIRANDA HAYMON
Starring MAYAA BOATENG, MALIK CHILDS, MISTER FITZGERALD, TONEY GOINS, AMANDLA JAHAVA, and CLAUDIA LOGAN
Previews begin April 28, 2022
Official Opening May 18, 2022
Limited engagement through June 26, 2022
Off-Broadway at the Black Box Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre
This production marks the 14th season of the critically acclaimed Roundabout Underground.
All tickets $30.
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO) is pleased to announce full casting for the Roundabout Underground world premiere of Exception to the Rule by Dave Harris, directed by Roundabout Resident Director Miranda Haymon.
The cast includes MaYaa Boateng as “Erika,” Malik Childs as “Tommy,” Mister Fitzgerald as “Abdul,” Toney Goins as “Dayrin,” Amandla Jahava as “Mikayla,” and Claudia Logan as “Dasani.”
Exception to the Rule begins preview performances on Thursday, April 28, 2022, and opens officially on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at the Black Box Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street). This is a limited engagement through Sunday, June 26, 2022. All tickets for Roundabout Underground productions are $30.
How do you make it through detention? In the worst high school in the city, six Black students are stuck in Room 111. They flirt. They fight. They tease. Should they follow the rules and stay put, or find an escape? Are the walls keeping them in, or are stronger forces at play? Dave Harris’s new work crackles with humor and suspense—confronting the tactics for surviving institutions that were not built for you.
This production of Exception to the Rule comes from a combination of several of Roundabout’s emerging-artist programs, including the New Play Initiative and the Roundabout Directing Fellowship.
Now in its 14th season, Roundabout Underground is part of Roundabout’s New Play Initiative, discovering new writers, producing their New York debuts, and providing them long-term development and production support. In addition to the Black Box production, every Underground playwright gets a commission for a future play. Roundabout’s Associate Artistic Director Jill Rafson serves as Artistic Producer.
Roundabout launched its Directing Fellowship in 2017, to create long-term relationships with a new generation of directors, and Miranda Haymon was its second Fellow, serving for the 2017-18 season. With Exception to the Rule, Haymon becomes the first participant to direct a full production—and is one of the youngest directors in the company’s history—for Roundabout. Haymon first directed this play for the 2019 Roundabout Underground Reading Series and is currently a Resident Director at Roundabout.
The playwrights who made their New York debuts at Roundabout Underground are Stephen Karam (Speech & Debate, 2007), Steven Levenson (The Language of Trees, 2008), Adam Gwon (Ordinary Days, 2009), Kim Rosenstock (Tigers Be Still, 2010), David West Read (The Dream of the Burning Boy, 2011), Andrew Hinderaker (Suicide, Incorporated, 2011), Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, 2012), Meghan Kennedy (Too Much, Too Much, Too Many, 2013), Jeff Augustin (Little Children Dream of God, 2015), Lindsey Ferrentino (Ugly Lies the Bone, 2015), Jenny Rachel Weiner (Kingdom Come, 2016), Mansa Ra (Too Heavy for Your Pocket, 2017), Martín Zimmerman (On the Exhale, 2017), Ming Peiffer (Usual Girls, 2018), Alex Lubischer (Bobbie Clearly, 2018), Selina Fillinger (Something Clean, 2019), Daniel Zaitchik (Darling Grenadine, 2020), Sanaz Toossi (English, 2022), Dave Harris (Exception to the Rule, 2022). Ra’s commission ….what the end will be will premiere at the Laura Pels Theater this spring, performances begin May 12 and opening is June 2, 2022.
The creative team for Exception to the Rule includes Reid Thompson and Kamil James (Sets), Sarita Fellows (Costumes), Cha See (Lighting), and Lee Kinney (Sound).
TICKET INFORMATION:
All tickets for Exception to the Rule are $30 General Admission tickets and are available by calling 212.719.1300, online at roundabouttheatre.org, in person at any Roundabout box office: American Airlines Theatre Box office (227 West 42nd Street); The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 W 46th Street) and Studio 54 (254 West 54th Street).
For groups of 10 or more please call 212-719-9393 x 365 or email groupsales@roundabouttheatre.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
Exception to the Rule plays Tuesday through Sunday evenings at 7:00PM with Saturday matinees at 1:30PM and Sunday matinees at 2:00PM.
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