Burning, Starring Hunter Foster, Ignites Off-Broadway

Thomas Bradshaw's Burning, starring Tony nominee Hunter Foster, will heat up off-Broadway when it officially opens at the Acorn Theatre on Theatre Row on November 14. The New Group production, helmed by artistic director Scott Elliott, will run through December 17.

Joining Foster on stage is Jeff Biehl, Reyna DeCourcy, Barrett Doss, Andrew Garman, Drew Hildebrand, Evan Johnson, Danny Mastrogiorgio, Andrew Polk, Larisa Polonsky, Adam Trese, Vladimir Versailles and Stephen Tyrone Williams.

The intersecting stories of Burning span two eras. A contemporary black painter, who depicts shocking racial violence in his art but hides his race from the press, goes to Berlin for a gallery show only to find that his work has been misinterpreted. In the mid-'80s an ambitious teenage boy, recently orphaned, comes to New York to become an actor and is taken in by a gay couple as they are preparing the debut of a new Broadway play.