How long is the lyons on broadway

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Expand the sub menu More Coverage. Expand the sub menu More Variety. Switch edition between U. Asia Global. People Linda Lavin. Rita Lyons Original. Dick Latessa. Ben Lyons Original. Michael Esper. Curtis Lyons Original. Kate Jennings Grant. Lisa Lyons Original. Brenda Pressley.

Nurse Original. View All Cast. Nicky Silver. Mark Brokaw. Allen Moyer. Scenic Design. Michael Krass. Costume Design. As an actor, he lets the characters speak through the page and tell him where they want to go. The play is centered on a funeral, but there are multiple intersecting storylines. That last character was closer to home to Lyons, who is gay. He also hopes that for Black audiences in particular, the play encourages them to have frank conversations with their own families.

Due to a long history of medical discrimination and abuse, many Black people are suspicious of therapy. Why do I need therapy? The play is about Black joy, but it is also about Black healing and Black release. And I think this play allows Black people to say, sometimes we are not OK, and we are broken, and we have gone through some nasty things.

But if we talk about them, we can heal through them and shine brighter on the outside. Another rule of show business: It takes some talent and a fair bit of luck. Last year, the pandemic shut down the play during its off-Broadway run as well as theaters nationwide. Then a year later, New York City allowed Broadway theaters to reopen. But many shows were unable to return, leaving a number of theaters empty.

And the shows that have filled those empty theaters have been penned by Black playwrights. This fall, eight Black playwrights are getting their work produced on Broadway, a record considering that the average theater season, on average, only features two works by Black creators and one of them is often August Wilson.

During a time when Broadway is reckoning with its own history of exclusion and lack of diversity, these creators are imagining a new kind of Broadway. And if these artists and their teams are successful, Broadway will start to look different, onstage as well as in the audience.

Lyons is not as worried about box office revenue as he is about the audience. Lately, Lyons has been thinking a lot about legacy. He started writing because of boredom. Then he realized that through writing, he could make a wider direct impact.