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BREAKING NEWS: Lincoln Center Theater is set to release another one of its incredible previous Award winning productions part of its all new PRIVATE REELS series. The next show set to be streamed will be Sarah DeLappe‘s critically acclaimed Soccer female empowerment play THE WOLVES.
Filmed from the stage of LCT’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, the play will be available to watch for a limited time on Broadway On Demand from July 22nd, 2021 through August 15th, 2021.
In case anyone may not know, THE WOLVES follows a group of young girls on an indoor youth soccer team in their pre-game ritual. This coming of age story follows the girls as they navigate big questions and wage tiny battles from the safety of their suburban stretch circle.
The play originally was developed through a workshop lab at the Playwrights Horizons Theater School and Clubbed Theatre back in 2015. It officially had its world premiere production Off Broadway in 2016 at the Duke on 42nd Street for a strictly limited Summer engagement. The original run was well received, the production played an encore run in the Duke that same year for the holiday season. The following year, it transferred to Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.
Under the direction of Obie Award winner Lila Neugebauer, this team consists of…..
Paola Sanchez Abreu as player # 25,
Mia Barron as “The Soccer Mom”,
Brenna Coates as player # 7,
Jenna Dioguardi as player # 13,
Samia Finnerty as player # 14,
Midori Francis as player # 8,
Lizzy Jutila as playerr # 00,
Sarah Mezzanotte as player # 2,
Tedra Millan as player # 46,
and
Susannah Perkins as player # 11.
THE WOLVES was well received by Theater critics and audiences. It went on to win the The American Playwriting Foundation‘s inaugural Relentless Award in 2015. It was a finalist in consideration to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2017. It also received an Ensemble Award at the Obie Awards, a special Drama Desk Award for its acting ensemble, and was nominated for The Lucille Lortel and The Drama League Awards for BEST PLAY,
GO TEAM!!!
Who is excited to see this powerful play on film?!!!
Mike Haber
Author: Mike Haber