Kennedy Center Events Byhalia Mississippi-a story of love, class, race, infidelity, forgiveness, and family:

Now playing at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.: 'Byhalia, Mississippi' - a story of love, class, race, infidelity, forgiveness, and family:

Byhalia, Mississippi
June 7–July 7 | Terrace Theater
SPECIAL OFFER: $39 & $49 Tickets for Select Performances*
Starring Jack Falahee of ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder!
Don’t miss this new Kennedy Center production of playwright Evan Linder’s timely and heartwarming comedy, which won Chicago’s prestigious Joseph Jefferson Award in 2016 for Best New Work.
'Byhalia, Mississippi' is a story of love, class, race and family

Don’t miss this new Kennedy Center production of playwright Evan Linder’s uncompromising exploration of race, infidelity, and family. Winner of Chicago’s prestigious Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work in 2016, the play centers on a white couple, Jim and Laurel—they are broke, young, and deeply in love. They are also about to become new parents. When Laurel gives birth to their overdue child, the black baby is a surprise to everyone, especially her husband Jim, igniting a firestorm in their small southern town.

Jack Falahee, star of ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder, plays the role of Jim in the heartfelt comedy. Joining Falahee are Black star Aimé Donna Kelly as Ayesha, Black star Blake Anthony Morris as Karl, Joseph Jefferson Award–winning Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Caroline Neff as Laurel, and Joseph Jefferson Award winner Cecelia Wingate as Celeste, Laurel's mother.

Chicago Tribune:
Set in the titular small town of Byhalia (pronounced "bye-HAIL-yah")— which is half an hour south of Memphis — this is the story of a struggling young working-class couple, Laurel and Jim. Laurel is pregnant with the couple's first child, and at the start of the play, we see her fending off the ministrations of a well-meaning but suffocating mother, Celeste (Cecelia Wingate). Jim seems like a good guy. That's the setup. Before long, though, it becomes clear that Jim might not be the father of this baby. Perchance Laurel has had a relationship with an African-American man.
What to do? Could any couple survive such a betrayal?
In part, the playwright is writing about love, error and forgiveness, but given that Jim not being the father of this child presumably will be obvious, he also is writing about race, even as he is not specifically writing about race. And he's writing about class, which doesn't always pivot along a racial axis.

Performance Timing: Act One - 58 min.; Intermission - 15 min.; Act Two - 53 min.

Get tickets at http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/TTTSK

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Byhalia, Mississippi
June 7–July 7 | Terrace Theater
SPECIAL OFFER: $39 & $49 Tickets for Select Performances*
Starring Jack Falahee of ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder!
Don’t miss this new Kennedy Center production of playwright Evan Linder’s timely and heartwarming comedy, which won Chicago’s prestigious Joseph Jefferson Award in 2016 for Best New Work.
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