Yes, Virginia, Orlando Has Made It to the Off-Broadway Stage

A young nobleman finds adventure, has a romance with Queen Elizabeth I, travels the world, then wakes up one morning…as a she! That’s the intriguing storyline of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, which has been a favorite of generations of readers since it was published in the late 1920s. Acclaimed playwright Sarah Ruhl accepted a commission to bring the novel to the stage, and now Classic Stage Company is bringing her play to off-Broadway audiences in a production starring Francesca Faridany. After the show’s opening night performance on September 23, the company celebrated at Pangea, and Broadway.com stopped by to capture the happy scene.