Sanctuary City Tickets

"Masterful portraiture! I have rarely seen a play that so effectively embodies the way external forces distort the inner lives of actual humans." –THE NEW YORK TIMES, CRITIC’S PICK

Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok brings us the powerful story of two young DREAMers who fight to establish a place for themselves in America, the only country they know as home. Poignant, timely, and highly theatrical, Sanctuary City illuminates the triumphs and challenges these lifelong friends face, and how much they are willing to risk for each other when they have everything to lose.

"If Martyna Majok’s talent weren’t so impressive and her subject so imperative, it would be easy to leave her in peace with her Pulitzer. But the American theatre needs her sensibility right now." –LOS ANGELES TIMES

"We understand these two characters because, at Majok’s urging, we’ve taken their timbres into our minds and put them in their rightful places: the unique person over and above the faceless crowd; the immediate and the real always more salient than a generalizing idea." –THE NEW YORKER

By Martyna Majok
Directed By David Mendizábal
In Association with Arena Stage