Meet Ben. Ben is a 26-year-old investment banker. Ben likes beer, sports, and Emily. And Chris. Ben is a 26-year investment banker. Funny, sad, sexy, and surprising, this three-character drama meditates on fidelity, identity, and the moral complex of a generation that prides itself on the pretense of acceptance.
Straight Cast Members: Jake Epstein, Jenna Gavigan, Thomas E. Sullivan
Straight Creative Team
Author: Scott Elmegreen & Drew Fornarola
Director: Andy Sandberg
Producer: Baseline Theatrical
Press Agent: Matt Ross PR
Running Time: 90 minutes with no intermission. Box office opens daily at noon.
Straight the Play is nominated for a BroadwayWorld.com Award for BEST OFF-BROADWAY PLAY! This is an audience choice award, so please CAST YOUR VOTE in support of STRAIGHT with the link below!
Voting has now opened for the 2016 BroadwayWorld.com Awards!
Want to produce STRAIGHT at your theater? Contact Dramatic Publishing at www.DramaticPublishing.com for more information!
101 performances and our final show! Thank you to everyone involved and everyone who came to support our show! #LivingALabel
Our final bow!
OUR FINAL 4 PERFORMANCES! Join us today and tomorrow to see #STRAIGHTthePlay with Jake Epstein, Jenna Gavigan, and Thomas E. Sullivan. Get your tickets to The New York Times CRITIC'S PICK at www.StraightThePlay.com!
Meet Ben. Ben likes beer, sports and Emily. And Chris.
We had such a blast at the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition this year! Check out some of our highlights from the event which raised a record-shattering $5,528,568!
Our audiences have only 4 days left to experience #LivingALabel! Last performance is on Sunday! 🔥
OUR FINAL PERFORMANCE IS ON MAY 8th! Our cast looks back on the beginning of #STRAIGHTthePlay and their time together on stage. Join us for our final 6 performances by getting tickets to The New York Times CRITICS' PICK today at www.StraightThePlay.com!
Director Andy Sandberg sat with Off Script with Dan Dwyer on Playbill for an interesting take on the sexuality play and not-so-typical-coming-out-story #STRAIGHTthePlay!
Director Andy Sandberg talks his latest play, Straight, and how we define sexuality in 2016.
In case you missed it, check out what #LivingALabel means to our team here at #STRAIGHTthePlay. What does it mean to you?
Jake Epstein, Jenna Gavigan & Thomas E. Sullivan discuss #STRAIGHTthePlay, labels, identity, pre-show routine and how they all became the closest of friends. Read more on Stage Door Dish!
What happens when an average guy who likes being an average guy discovers something within himself that he does not consider average? How does he choose between the life he…
An interview with director of #STRAIGHTthePlay, Andy Sandberg on The Pickwyck! Read about Andy's career and time on STRAIGHT!
Let's start off with some fun facts! Where are you from? Do you come from an artistic family? "I grew up right here in Manhattan. Though my mother isn't from New York, she was an actor earlier in...
The cast and team of #STRAIGHTthePlay talk about sexuality, identity, and #LivingALabel. What does #LivingALabel mean to you? Tell us in the comments below!
Look who Jake Epstein ran into at the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition! Rod from Avenue Q is also a closeted investment banker! #BroadwayBonnets #TBT
Check out the cast of #STRAIGHTthePlay at the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition on Playbill! We shared a stage with the one and only Stevie Nicks!
10 days of performances left for #STRAIGHTthePlay! See the limited engagement by May 8th! Get tickets to The New York Times CRITICS' PICK at www.StraightThePlay.com!
WANT TO WIN MERCH FROM #STRAIGHTthePlay? Win a STRAIGHT t-shirt and autographed Playbill by finishing this sentence in the comments below! "I Label Myself..."
The winner will be announced next week!
LESS THAN 2 WEEKS! See the limited engagement of #STRAIGHTthePLay by May 8th! Get tickets to The New York Times CRITICS' PICK at www.StraightThePlay.com!
Yesterday, the #STRAIGHTthePlay cast and team performed at the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition! You can catch them today at 2pm at the Minskoff Theatre! #BroadwayBonnets
#STRAIGHTthePlay's Jake Epstein, Jenna Gavigan, and Thomas E. Sullivan went out with Playbill to Bar Nine after a weekend of shows! Check out the photo shoot!
Take an exclusive look at our photo shoot with Thomas Sullivan, Jake Epstein and Jenna Gavigan while they unwind and have fun at Bar Nine!
#STRAIGHTthePlay is proud to join Dramatic Publishing! We look forward to working with Dramatic Publishing and are excited for Straight to reach new audiences and spark new conversations in the years to come.
Dramatic Publishing Company has acquired the professional, stock and amateur theatrical performance rights to the hit Off-Broadway play STRAIGHT, co-authored by Scott Elmegreen & Drew Fornarola, and directed by Andy Sandberg.
What is #STRAIGHTthePlay? Our director, authors, and cast discuss sexuality, identity, and STRAIGHT's journey to the Off-Broadway stage.
Get your tickets to the limited engagement of The New York Times CRITICS' PICK by May 8th at www.StraightThePlay.com!
Introduce YourSELFIE with Jenna Gavigan! Jenna answers 10 quick questions with BroadwayBox about her cast members, her inspirations, favorite films, and more!
Jenna Gavigan on how Straight ends like The Sopranos, her Nora Ephron obsession, and her powerful Gypsy memories.
Jake Epstein, Jenna Gavigan and Thomas E. Sullivan are onstage at the Acorn Theatre! Watch the trio on Playbill chat about the first shows they ever saw. Then, the competition begins as they go all out for a round of theatre trivia!
Straight Backstage Games - Trivia
Thomas E. Sullivan with BroadwaySelect talks about making his off-Broadway debut in #STRAIGHTthePlay and the most important parts about conveying Chris' story on stage.
An interview with Thomas Sullivan who has recently made his Off-Broadway debut in Scott Elmegreen and Drew Fornarola’s play STRAIGHT....Continue Reading
Jake Epstein was on NY1 On Stage with Donna Karger and Frank DiLella to talk more about #STRAIGHTthePlay!
FINAL WEEKS! Only 3 weeks left of #STRAIGHTthePlay! See the limited engagement by May 8th! Get tickets to The New York Times CRITICS' PICK at www.StraightThePlay.com!
“I have my degree in writing, so I told the writers in the room, very much like Emily would flaunting her diploma, that I really think it’s very good writing."
Jenna Gavigan discusses her character Emily and #STRAIGHTthePlay with Hollywood Soapbox!
Straight, the new play by Scott Elmegreen and Drew Fornarola, looks closely at the struggles of a man caught between two competing people in his life. One the one hand, Ben (Jake Epstein), a 26-year-old investment banker, loves Emily (Jenna Gavigan), a woman he’s been in a long-term relationship wit…
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Backstage at #STRAIGHTthePlay, cast members Jenna Gavigan, Jake Epstein and Thomas E. Sullivan play a round of “Never Have I Ever.” As the trio reveals personal details, the talk turns to the drinking age in the U.S. vs. Canada, tattoos, wisdom teeth and the dangers of belting your favorite WICKED The Musical tune while driving. See more on Playbill!
Straight Backstage Games - Never Have I
"Why is it that a straight guy is just a guy, but a gay guy is a 'gay guy?'"
Our cast speaks with Theatre Development Fund (TDF) Stages about #STRAIGHTthePlay and the audience reactions throughout the show!
'Straight''s unflinching questions about sexuality
Jake Epstein's Degrassi friend Nina Dobrev stopped by to see #STRAIGHTthePlay! Thanks for coming, Nina! 😘 #DegrassiForever
Playbill features our next #STRAIGHTthePlay vlog! Watch Jake Epstein, Jenna Gavigan, and Thomas E. Sullivan play Ellen DeGeneres hit game Heads Up App!
Ellen, come see STRAIGHT before May 8th! www.StraightThePlay.com
Keith Price's Curtain Call interviewed cast members Jake Epstein, Jenna Gavigan, and Thomas E. Sullivan for a fun and thoughtful chat about The New York Times CRITICS PICK, their lives, and even some thoughts on relationships.
From the new play, STRAIGHT, actors Jake Epstein, Jenna Gavigan, and Thomas Sullivan, stop by for a fun and thoughtful chat about their hit play, their lives, and even some thoughts on relationships.
#STRAIGHTthePlay co-playwright, Scott Elmegreen discovered the new subway posters with our The New York Times quote! Let us know where you spot them!
410 W 42nd St
New York, NY
10036
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