59E59 Theaters

59E59's second annual Amplify Festival, devoted to the work of playwright Chisa Hutchinson (Somebody's Daughter), concludes with the NYC premiere of this fraught drama about a rural Marylander whose desire to join a white supremacist group is at odds with the results of his ancestry test. Jade King Carroll directs the production for Primary Stages, which helped develop the play and featured it in the 2018 edition of its Fresh Ink Reading Series. Daniel Abeles, Molly Carden, Luke Robertson, Tobias Segal, Andrea Syglowski, Amber Reauchean Williams and Victor Williams form the cast.

Dublin's acclaimed Fishamble: The New Play Company, a frequent visitor to New York stages, returns with a solo play by Gavin Kostick, directed by Bryan Burroughs. Aonghus Og McAnally—who won an award for this performance at the Dublin Fringe back in 2010—plays an unsuccessful boxer from a long line of pugilists who is hoping to turn his luck around. (The actor knows a bit about family businesses himself; he's the grandson of the Irish stage and screen great Ray McAnally.) The production kicks off the 2025 edition of Origin's 1st Irish festival, in which Fishamble is also represented by In Two Minds.

Fishamble: The New Play Company visits Origin's 1st Irish festival with two productions at 59E59. One is the boxing-themed solo Fight Night; the other is this 2023 two-hander by Joanne Ryan, directed by Sarah Jane Scaife. Pom Boyd and Karen McCartney play, respectively, a retiree with bipolar disorder and the adult daughter whose studio apartment she temporarily shares.