Appropriate on Broadway Tickets

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Director: Lila Neugebauer
Producer: Second Stage Theater
Cast list: Sarah Paulson (as Toni), Corey Stoll (as Bo), Ella Beatty (as River), Natalie Gold (as Rachael), Alyssa Emily Marvin (as Cassie), Graham Campbell (as Rhys), Michael Esper (as Franz), Everett Sobers and Lincoln Cohen (alternating as Ainsley)
Design: dots
Costumes: Dede Ayite
Lighting: Jane Cox
Sound: Will Pickens and Bray Poor

Premiering in 2013 at Signature Theatre, Appropriate in New York was celebrated as a blazing play that overturns the classic family drama. The New York Times raved, that Appropriate is "piercingly clear, with carefully drawn characters who speak in crisp and fluid dialogue. It’s a remarkable and devious play.”

Now, the play comes to Broadway starring Sarah Paulson, now known for her Emmy-winning onscreen career. Appropriate is directed by new-play maverick Lila Neugebauer, who has staged similar ensemble works such as The Wolves (for which she won the Obie Award), Miles for Mary (Drama Desk Award nomination), and Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (Lucille Lortel Award nomination).

What to watch for

• Sarah Paulson leads the cast. The American Horror Story star returns to Broadway for the first time in 13 years as Toni, the divorced eldest daughter in the play.
• Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ plays explore race and legacy. In his play Gloria, Jacobs-Jenkins exposed how surviving magazine executives, in the wake of an office shooting, look to use the story for their own competitive gain. In An Octoroon, he employs blackface to dissect identity. Now, in Appropriate on Broadway, the playwright looks at how one family chooses to manipulate and — per the title — appropriate the disturbing findings on their father’s plantation.
• Jacobs-Jenkins is one of today’s most celebrated writers. The playwright has won the Paula Vogel Award, was named a MacArthur Fellow, and has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
• Second Stage gives acclaimed works a new production. The company was founded in 1979 to produce “second stagings” of American plays by living writers that deserved to reach a wider audience. That mission expanded to producing new plays by a emerging writers, which has helped launch countless careers.