"The glittering Maggie Siff (“Mad Men,” “Billions”) stars in the superheated Southern drama at Brooklyn’s Theatre for a New Audience, where she scorched the boards as Beatrice in “Much Ado About Nothing,” in 2013."

― The New Yorker

"One of the most highly anticipated productions of the summer."

― New York Magazine

Overview

Running time: 2 hours and 20 minutes plus one intermission

Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending tells the story of the passion of two outcasts—Lady Torrance, a storekeeper’s wife and daughter of a murdered Sicilian bootlegger and Val, a wandering guitar player—and their attempt to escape from a Southern Hell.

Set in a small town dry-goods store in the Deep South, Orpheus Descending is a toxic brew of racist violence, bigotry, misogyny, sexual passion and longing for liberation.

Maggie Siff (Billions, Mad Men and Sons of Anarchy) plays Lady Torrance and Pico Alexander (Catch 22, Simon Stephens’ Punk Rock and A.R. Gurney’s What I Did Last Summer) is Valentine Xavier.

Erica Schmidt, who adapted and directed Shakespeare’s Macbeth for seven schoolgirls entitled Mac Beth (“raucously exuberant”) and this season’s Lucy which she wrote and directed (“seamlessly layered, extraordinarily entertaining and …cleverly detailed”), stages, in her TFANA debut, this seldom-seen Williams masterpiece.

Cast

Maggie Siff

Lady Torrance

Pico Alexander

Valentine Xavier

Molly Kate Babos

Michael Cullen

Matt DeAngelis

Mary Glen Fredrick

Gene Gillette

Laura Heisler

Prudence Wright Holmes

Brian Keane

Julia McDermott

Ana Reeder

Kate Skinner

Fiana Tóibín

James Waterston

Dathan B. Williams

Media

Theatre for a New Audience Presents Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending"