Pictures From Home

In 1981 Photographer Larry Sultan set out to create a portrait of his parents, Jean and Irv, tracing his family’s journey from postwar Brooklyn to California’s San Fernando Valley. A decade later, the resulting work, Pictures From Home, combined home movie stills, interviews, and Sultan’s own photographs — both candid and staged — of his often aggrieved, but always complicit parents, and had grown to become an epic exploration of twentieth-century American optimism, deceptively banal, deeply personal. As adapted by Sharr White, Pictures From Home adds another layer to Sultan’s exploration: that of a volatile and loving relationship between parent and son who employ image as their proxy for an Oedipal struggle over dominance.

Cast

STUDIO 54 BROADWAY
FIRST PREVIEW 10 Jan, 2023
OPENING NIGHT 09 Feb, 2023

Production Crew

Produced by Jeffrey Richards, Hunter Arnold, Rebecca Gold, Jayne Baron Sherman, Kayla Greenspan and Jacob Soroken Porter
Written by Sharr White
Adapted from the Photo Memoir by Larry Sultan
Directed by Bartlett Sher

Dad on Bed / 1984

Sharr White Sharr White is anAmerican playwright and screenwriter. His plays have appeared on Broadway and Off-Broadway. His plays have also been produced at several regional venues, including at South Coast Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center Theatre’s Directors Lab and Key West Theatre Festival.

Plays by Sharr White

PICTURES FROM HOME
THE TRUE
STUPID KID
THE SNOW GEESE
ANNAPURNA
THE OTHER PLACE
SUNLIGHT
SIX YEARS
ACHILLES IN SPARTA

Studio 54

Studio 54 was a popular and world renowned nightclub from 1977 until 1981 when it was sold by founders and creators Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager. It was called the most famous nightclub of all time and was a sophisticated, groundbreaking multi-media visual extravaganza.

It continued to operate as a nightclub until 1991 by other owners. Located at 254 West 54th Street in Manhattan, New York City, the space was originally the Gallo Opera House, opening in 1927, after which it changed names several times, eventually becoming CBS radio and television Studio 52. Since November 1998 it has been a venue for the Roundabout Theatre Company and is still called Studio 54, but is no longer a nightclub. A separate restaurant and nightclub, called 54 Below, operates in the basement of the famed venue.