Overview
- New images by photographer Marc J. Franklin offer a first look at the company in rehearsal for the world premiere.
- The production plays The Shed’s Griffin Theater with an official opening set for November 18 and tickets on sale now.
- Tom Hanks co-wrote the play with James Glossman, adapting stories from his 2017 collection Uncommon Type.
- Hanks stars as Bert Allenberry, a scientist from the future who travels to the 1939 World’s Fair in Queens in search of love.
- Tony winner Kenny Leon directs a cast that includes Kelli O’Hara, Kerry Bishé, Kayli Carter, Jay O. Sanders, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Donald Webber Jr., Michelle Wilson, Paul Murphy and Jamie Ann Romero, marking Hanks’s first New York stage role in more than a decade.