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A new play from Tony® and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Bruce Norris and three-time Tony Award® winner Joe Mantello.

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Critics’ Reviews (3)

A collection of our favorite reviews from professional news sources.
Chicago Tribune

"One of the more incendiary and thus important plays in history. You will have to see it for yourself."

Chicago Tribune

Chris Jones

The Washington Post

"Downstate is proof that you can love a play that turns you inside out."

The Washington Post

Peter Marks

New York Post

"How can you miss the play that will thoroughly piss off half of America?"

New York Post

Johnny Oleksinski

About Downstate

Winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, Bruce Norris’s profane, disruptive, and heartbreaking Downstate finally arrives on Broadway in a strictly limited 12-week engagement, directed by three-time Tony Award® winner Joe Mantello.

Four men, living together uneasily in the pressure-cooker of a state-sanctioned group home, have been convicted of sex crimes against minors. They have served their prison sentences, but enjoying the freedom they believe they have earned proves both elusive and treacherous. When a survivor unexpectedly arrives and demands to confront his abuser, the encounter triggers a catastrophic chain reaction that cannot be contained.

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