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The Roundabout Theatre Company presents:

The Overwhelming

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Opened on October 23, 2007
Closed on December 23, 2007

Location:
Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre
111 West 46th Street
New York, NY 10036
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Synopsis:
The Roundabout Theatre Company presents the American premiere of J.T. Rogers' London hit The Overwhelming. Max Stafford-Clark, who helmed the 2006 London production, directs.

The play concerns an American family, newly arrived in Rwanda in 1994, who come face-to-face with the understanding that nothing and no one around them is what they understood it to be.

The Roundabout will present a post-show talkback series "Rwanda: Past, Present and Future" at their American premiere production of The Overwhelming. The series will take place over a number of...

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Location:
Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre
111 West 46th Street
New York, NY 10036

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News and Reviews:

REVIEW
The Overwhelming
J.T. Rogers' somber drama about Americans in Rwanda turns out to be predictable and clunky.
Reviewed by: David Finkle »

THEATER NEWS
J.T. Rogers to Discuss The Overwhelming at Drama Book Shop
Playwright J.T. Rogers will do a reading, interview, Q&A, and signing of his play
By: Brian Scott Lipton »

New York Spotlight:
July 2008

Working Title

[title of show] transfers to Broadway, while Sean Hayes, Jane Krakowski, and Cheyenne Jackson headline Damn Yankees and Jonathan Groff, Will Swenson, and Caryn Lyn-Manuel star in Hair. Additional highlights include Alan Cumming in The Bacchae, Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes in Gate/Beckett, and Jamie Farr and Anita Gillette in Flamingo Court. Full Story

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