The Agony and the Agony

Terry Kinney directs Nicky Silver’s play The Agony and the Agony, with a cast that features the playwright himself, joined by Victoria Clark, winner of the Tony Award for The Light in the Piazza, and Cheyenne Jackson, who starred on Broadway in the musical All Shook Up. The production is presented at the Vineyard as one of the theatre’s Lab Productions — new works that are fully rehearsed and staged, with limited production values, and not open to the press for review.

In The Agony and the Agony, Ms. Clark plays an ambitious actress married to a desperate playwright, played by Mr. Silver, while Mr. Jackson plays an aspiring young actor whose arrival mixes things up even more.