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‘Thanksgiving play’ sent to America. Now it’s coming to Broadway.


“The Thanksgiving Play,” Larissa FastHorse’s satire about an elementary school drama teacher trying to organize a culturally sensitive holiday contest, will take place on Broadway next spring.

Second Stage, a nonprofit theater that owns the Helen Hayes Theater on Broadway, said it will show the play there in a production by Rachel Chavkin, the Tony Award-winning director of “Hadestown.” The theater has not announced the date or casting information.

“Thanksgiving play” has been staged at Playwrights Horizons in 2018, and already widely produced across the country. A star-studded version, featuring Bobby Cannavale, Keanu Reeves, Heidi Schreck and Alia Shawkat, is streaming last year by producer Jeffrey Richards’ pandemic-era online game series.

FastHorse is a member of the Sicangu Lakota nation of South Dakota, and Second Stage says she will be the first Native American female playwright to be produced on Broadway. Last year she won the so-called genius sponsorship from the John D. Foundation and Catherine T. MacArthur.

“The Thanksgiving Play” will follow the production of Pulitzer Prize-winning Stephen Adly Guirgis “Between Riverside and Crazy” on the Hayes stage. The film, directed by Austin Pendleton, is scheduled to open in theaters this fall.

Second Stage also said Thursday that at the Off Broadway theater it will show “Camp Siegfried,” a play by Bess Wohl set at a German-American summer camp, where teenagers not only flirt with each other, but also flirt with Nazism. The fall production will be directed by David Cromer; the play had a previous run at the Old Vic in London last fall.



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