Pictures from Home on Broadway Starring Nathan Lane Tickets

By: Sharr White, adapted from the book by Larry Sultan
Director: Bartlett Sher
Cast list: Danny Burstein (as Larry Sultan), Nathan Lane (as Irving Sultan), Zoë Wanamaker (as Jean Sultan)
Design: Michael Yeargan
Costumes: Jennifer Moeller
Lighting: Jennifer Tipton
Sound: Scott Lehrer and Peter John Still
Other info: Projection design by Ben Pearcy at 59 Productions

Pictures from Home follows Sultan’s (Burstein) parents, Irving (Lane) and Jean (Wanamaker), who lived a seemingly perfect American life in a gorgeous house. What began as a celebration and immortalization of his parents also uncovered hidden family secrets and cracks in their facade.

Playwright Sharr White has been on Broadway with The Other Place and The Snow Geese. The Snow Geese also featured Burstein, who won a 2020 Tony Award for playing Harold Zidler in Moulin Rouge! The Musical.

Lane’s numerous theatrical outings earned him a spot in the Theater Hall of Fame. He's a three-time Tony winner for The Producers, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Angels in America, and a 2022 Emmy Award winner for Only Murders in the Building.

Wanamaker returns to Broadway for the first time since 2006. She has received Tony nominations for all four of her previous Broadway credits: Piaf, Electra, Loot, and Awake and Sing! Screen audiences know her from My Week with Marilyn and David Copperfield, and as Madame Hooch in the first Harry Potter movie.

Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher (South Pacific, My Fair Lady, To Kill a Mockingbird) directs Pictures From Home in New York. This season, he also directs Camelot at Lincoln Center Theater.

What to Watch For

• In addition to text from the Pictures From Home book, White uses content from interviews with Sultan's wife in the play. However, most of the script is fully original.
• Many of the photographs from Sultan's memoir appear in Pictures From Home.
• White grew interested in Sultan after seeing an exhibition of his photographs in Los Angeles. For him, the story behind the pictures was about “ownership of image, ownership of family, who gets to keep the family narrative,” he said in an interview with New York Theatre Guide.
• Sultan is known for photographing houses, primarily in the San Fernando Valley, so his Pictures From Home project is a personal take on his trademark genre.
• New York Stage and Film, Houston's Alley Theater, and the Cape Cod Theater Project all held readings of Pictures From Home, but the show hasn't been staged with a full production design — set, costumes, the whole shebang — until now.