Production History

LEO K. THEATRE
Blue Door
A Play with Original Songs
by Tanya Barfield
Directed by Leigh Silverman
February 1 – March 4, 2007

...a play of psychological power and haunting beauty that plumbs difficult issues of racial identity and assimilation with a sense of confidence and sophistication uncommon in a relatively young playwright.
— Seattle Weekly

The Actors and Stage Managers in this production are members of Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

Directed by Leigh Silverman, who also oversaw the play in New York, Blue Door is elevated to something just shy of divine by the combined performances of Cathey and Hubert Point-Du Jour–an absolute dynamo of an actor who plays all three of the ancestral ghosts come to take Lewis to task. These two fine actors invest their characters with a depth of feeling that is at once ponderous and playful. They perfectly embody the play's intellectual concerns, making it both timely and universal. — Seattle Weekly

SPONSORS

Leo K. Season Sponsor:
Mellon

Title Sponsor:
PONCHO

Producing Partners:
The Chisholm Foundation
Washington State Arts Commission
National Endowment for the Arts

Playwrights Horizons presented the New York Premiere of Blue Door in the fall of 2006.
It was commissioned by Playwrights Horizons with funds provided by
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Commissioning Program.
Blue Door was first produced by South Coast Repertory.
A workshop of Blue Door was presented by New York Stage and Film,
and The Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College.
Blue Door was developed, in part, with the assistance of the
Sundance Institute Theatre Laboratory.