About the Show
After a sold-out run last year, Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day is coming back this October, this time in an artist’s townhouse in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
If you saw the show last year, you know that this isn’t a conventional revival. The audience sits alongside the actors in an actual Brooklyn home that becomes, simultaneously, a 1930s Berlin apartment. The play’s questions about art, politics, friendship, fear, and what we do as the world disintegrates around us become very immediate when you’re sitting in someone’s kitchen, a few feet from the people living through it. Just like we’re all living through it, more and more each day.
A Bright Room Called Day follows a group of artists and activists in 1930s Berlin as fascism takes hold around them, and they decide whether to wait or act, fight or flee. Kushner originally wrote the play in the 1980s as a direct response to Reagan’s America. Nearly 40 years later, the parallels to today feel even more eerily relevant.
