Building The Wall Play NYC

Building The Wall Play NYC The American political thriller from the Pulitzer and Tony-winning playwright of 'All The Way'

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“TERRIFYINGLY PLAUSIBLE DYSTOPIAN FICTION.
‘BUILDING THE WALL’ IMAGINES THE UNIMAGINABLE. IT SHOULD BE SEEN!” - Los Angeles Times

By Robert Shenkkan

Starring Tamara Tunie ("Law & OrderL SVU")
and James Badge Dale (13 Hours, The Departed)
Directed by Ari Edelson (The Orchard Project)

From America’s most acclaimed political playwright, Pulitzer and Tony� winner Robert

Schenkkan (All The Way, Hacksaw Ridge – Academy Award� nom.), comes a provocative 90-minute theatrical event written in a white-hot fury. In a time when shocking campaign rhetoric turns into real policies, BUILDING THE WALL urgently reveals the power of theater to question who we are and where we might be going. Don’t miss the show The Hollywood Reporter calls, “A mesmerizing and shocking new play that simmers with of-the-moment urgency.”

"RIVETING! THE FINAL MOMENTS ARE UNFORGETTABLE." - The Wrap
06/03/2017

"RIVETING! THE FINAL MOMENTS ARE UNFORGETTABLE." - The Wrap

"INTIMATE, ABSORBING AND UNAPOLOGETIC." - amNewYork
06/03/2017

"INTIMATE, ABSORBING AND UNAPOLOGETIC." - amNewYork

President Donald Trump has been impeached and “exiled to Palm Beach.” Not in real life, but in Robert Schenkkan’s absorbing and unapologetically disturbing drama “Building

"A SCORCHER OF A PLAY WITH GRIPPING STORYTELLING AND POWERFUL PERFORMANCES" - Variety
06/02/2017

"A SCORCHER OF A PLAY WITH GRIPPING STORYTELLING AND POWERFUL PERFORMANCES" - Variety

There’s a hold-your-breath inevitability to what is finally disclosed in “Building the Wall,” the powerful dystopian drama about life in the Donald Trump era by Robert Schenkkan. You hear it …

Join us TOMORROW for a talk with our partners at AFSC Immigrant Rights Program and Enlace on immigrant detention & the r...
05/30/2017

Join us TOMORROW for a talk with our partners at AFSC Immigrant Rights Program and Enlace on immigrant detention & the role of private prisons.

Check out this interview on PIX11 Morning News with 's Tamara Tunie!
05/30/2017

Check out this interview on PIX11 Morning News with 's Tamara Tunie!

Tony Award-winning actress Tamara Tunie has had many memorable roles throughout her acting career, including "Law and Order: SVU" and "Blue Bloods," but she's returning to her theater roots in "Building The Wall," a 90-minute dystopian drama about Trump's America.

"Building The Wall" is showing a...

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05/30/2017

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Theatre Pizzazz called "superbly chilling." Read the full article here:
05/29/2017

Theatre Pizzazz called "superbly chilling." Read the full article here:

by Carole Di Tosti “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” begins the first line of Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall.” Robert Schenkkan (Pultizer/Tony Award winner) in his starkly chilling, mind-crashing play, Building The Wall, turns Frost’s concept about walls inside out. He examines...

05/28/2017

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Thank you for filling our with so much silver! It is a powerful illustration of our diversity, and we’re just getting ...
05/27/2017

Thank you for filling our with so much silver! It is a powerful illustration of our diversity, and we’re just getting started.

"URGENT AND POWERFUL POLITICAL THEATER" - The Hollywood Reporter
05/27/2017

"URGENT AND POWERFUL POLITICAL THEATER" - The Hollywood Reporter

James Badge Dale and Tamara Tunie star in this dystopian drama by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan, author of 'All the Way' and co-screenwriter of 'Hacksaw Ridge.'

“My experience has been in certain situations people tend to act in their own interests.” - Rick
05/26/2017

“My experience has been in certain situations people tend to act in their own interests.” - Rick

05/26/2017

**ALL TICKETS $35**. The Hollywood Reporter calls “URGENT AND POWERFUL POLITICAL THEATER.” Get tickets now for this "MUST-SEE SHOW. PERFECTLY CAST.” - The New York Times
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340 West 50th Street
New York, NY
10019

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Monday 8am - 6pm
Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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