THE SOUND INSIDE

Adam Rapp

directed by

K. Lorrel Manning

An Ivy League writing professor, Bella Baird hasn’t published anything in years and has become used to being alone until she develops an unexpected relationship with a peculiar, but promising student. With every new encounter, revelations are brought to light until a shocking question leaves the other with an impossible choice. A love letter to the art of writing a story, THE SOUND INSIDE was lauded on Broadway by The New York Times as “90 uninterrupted minutes of tension.”

CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of self-harm

SPECIAL THANKS

Award-winning theatre artist and filmmaker K. Lorrel Manning joins us from NYC thanks to the generous donation of Sheri C. Henriksen.

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Special Performance Dates:

January 19 - Preview
January 20 - Opening Night
February 5 - Open-Captioned
- Talkback with cast led by Dr. Robert Shimko from the University of Houston
February 6 - Pay-What-You-Will Night
February 11 - Closing Night

About the Play

Kim Tobin-Lehl as Bella Lee Baird
Christian Tannous as Christopher Dunn
Set Design | Ryan McGettigan
Lighting | Christina Giannelli
Sound | Robert Leslie Meek
Costumes | Paige A. Willson
Props | Corey Nance
Stage Manager | Kalin Menzel
Scenic Production | Santiago Sepeda
Crew | Lauren Ayala, David E. Brandt, J.R. Marshall
Adam Rapp is the author of numerous plays, which include Nocturne (American Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop), Finer Noble Gases (26th Humana Festival), Stone Cold Dead Serious (A.R.T.), Blackbird (The Bush, London), Essential Self-Defense (Playwrights Horizons/Edge Theatre), Kindness (Playwrights Horizons), The Metal Children (The Vineyard), The Hallway Trilogy (Rattlestick), The Edge of Our Bodies (36th Humana Festival), Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling (The Atlantic), Through the Yellow Hour (Rattlestick), Wolf in the River (The Flea), The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois (The Atlantic) and Red Light Winter (Steppenwolf, Barrow Street Theatre), for which he won Chicago’s Jeff Award for Best New Work, an Obie, and was named a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. He made his Broadway debut with The Sound Inside (Studio 54), which received a 2020 Outer Critics Circle Honor for Outstanding New Broadway Play. The Sound Inside was commissioned by Lincoln Center and received its world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

His playwriting honors include Boston’s Elliot Norton Award, The Helen Merrill Prize, The 2006 Princess Grace Statue, a Lucille Lortel Playwright’s Fellowship, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Award, and The Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.