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Pictures From Home

This slyly poignant and theatrically inventive Broadway play explores the family dynamic when photographer Larry Sultan decides to turn the lens on his parents, exposing darker truths beneath their sunny veneer.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: 1980s
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Playwright Sharr White transforms photographer Larry Sultan’s landmark photo memoir for the stage in this new three-character play. In the 1980s, Sultan spent a decade photographing and interviewing his parents and unearthing the memories beneath his family’s home movies. The result is a deeply intimate and comic portrait of a mother, a father and their son. Though set in the recent past, this poignant and theatrically inventive play is both of-the-moment and timeless.
REVIEWS:

"A sweet and wise Broadway play... a rare gift, to be wisely used."

 New York Daily News

"Humming with vibrant humor."

 The Wall Street Journal

"Thoughtful... [White] pulls at the threads of Irving’s vanity and petulance, unwinding them from his other qualities to provide the lurid outlines of a personality."

 The New York Times

"Sharr White’s comic drama... emerges as a moving and amusing portrait of an adult son desperately trying to connect with his parents... The universality of its themes and the power of its performances make it pack an emotional punch."

 New York Stage Review

"The gulf between image and reality is a central concern of the play... an examination of what it means to be successful, or appear successful, as a man in America."

 TimeOut New York

"Pictures From Home frequently pierces through its own nostalgia with an observation clear and crisp as a brand new Polaroid... the intimate and honest views of a family’s inner workings can’t help but touch our hearts at steadily paced moments."

 Deadline

"A sweet and wise Broadway play about just wanting your mom and dad to keep on going, to wish they could live for ever and to realize that any artist can complain and roar but some wise ones choose instead to render their loved ones immortal... A rare gift, to be wisely used."

 New York Daily News

Premiere Production: Pictures From Home premiered on Broadway at Studio 54 on February 9, 2023. Directed by Bartlett Sher, the production starred Danny Burstein, Nathan Lane and Zoë Wanamaker.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors

  • LARRY SULTAN
    IRVING SULTAN – Larry’s father
    JEAN SULTAN – Larry’s mother

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    Playwright Sharr White transforms photographer Larry Sultan’s landmark photo memoir for the stage in this new three-character play. In the 1980s, Sultan spent a decade photographing and interviewing his parents and unearthing the memories beneath his family’s home movies. The result is a deeply intimate and comic portrait of a mother, a father and their son. Though set in the recent past, this poignant and theatrically inventive play is both of-the-moment and timeless.

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