White People, with Brooksher, Dossett and Shulman, Sets Off-Broadway Debut

White People, a play by J. T. Rogers The Overwhelming is set to have its New York premiere at Atlantic Stage 2. Performances will begin on January 28, with opening night set for February 3, directed by Gus Reyes. The play is being presented by Starry Night Entertainment and is not a production of Atlantic Theater Company.

The cast of White People is Rebecca Brooksher Lucille Lortel Award nominee for Dying City at Lincoln Center, John Dossett Tony nominee for Gypsy, Broadway productions of The Constant Wife, Mamma Mia! and Dinner at Eight and the recent off-Broadway musical Saved and Michael Shulman TV’s Party of Five, Les Miserables.

White People follows the lives of three ordinary Americans placed under a spotlight: Martin, a Brooklyn-born, high-powered attorney for a white-shoe law firm in St. Louis; Mara Lynn, a housewife and former homecoming queen in Fayetteville, NC; and Alan, a young professor struggling to find his way in New York. They each wrestle with guilt, prejudice and the price they and their children must pay for their actions.

White People received its world premiere in 2000 at the Philadelphia Theatre Company and was nominated for Best Play of the Year by the L.A. Drama Critics Circle, before subsequent productions were staged in Salt Lake City, Miami and Boston.