A timely and gripping Broadway premiere from Tony Award® nominee Dominique Morisseau (Ain’t Too Proud, Pipeline). In 2008 Detroit, a small automotive factory is on the brink of foreclosure, and a tight knit family of workers hangs in the balance. With uncertainty everywhere, the line between blue collar and white collar becomes blurred, and this working family must reckon with their personal loyalties, their instincts for survival and their ultimate hopes for humanity. The New York Times gives this astonishing work a Critic’s Pick and cheers, “A very fine new play… warm-blooded, astute, deeply moral and deeply American.” And The Amsterdam News hails it as “a prime example of how theatre imitates life… intense, touching and funny.” Directing is MTC’s Tony-winning Artistic Advisor Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Lackawanna Blues, August Wilson’s Jitney).
With the exception of casting, director Ruben Santiago-Hudson's production is virtually the same as the terrific one he helmed in 2016 at the Atlantic Theater Company. (Thankfully, he did bring back performer-choreographer Adesola Osakalumi, whose kinetic movement between scenes illustrates the constant, precision motion of the assembly line.) Rashad is fantastic as the 'tough as bricks' Faye, and Dirden-featured in Santiago-Hudson's gorgeous revivals of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson (2012) and Jitney (2016), not to mention in Detroit '67 (2013)-is simply spectacular as the buttoned-up Reggie.
In the most cramped of times - days as economically and emotionally pinched as the ones we're living through now, and the ones we survived (or didn't) in 2008 - theater can remind us of, or point the way to, some sense of emotional generosity, of expansive spirit, of connection. Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew does all that and more, finding hope in the unlikeliest of places, like a cluttered, ramshackle break room of a noisy, about-to-fail factory in an about-to-fail city like Detroit.
2022 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
West End |
West End |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2022 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Brandon J. Dirden |
2022 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Phylicia Rashad |
2022 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Joshua Boone |
2022 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Skeleton Crew |
2022 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Awards | Phylicia Rashad |
2022 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Skeleton Crew |
2022 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Ruben Santiago-Hudson |
2022 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Brandon J. Dirden |
2022 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Chanté Adams |
2022 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Phylicia Rashad |
2022 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Broadway Play | Skeleton Crew |
2022 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Phylicia Rashad |
2022 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Skeleton Crew |
2022 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Play | Michael Carnahan |
2022 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Play | Nicholas Hussong |
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