
Appropriate Summary
- Show Status: Opening Soon
- Genre: Play
- Appropriate is 2 hours 10 minutes long, including an intermission of 15 minutes
- 8 Shows per week
- Previews Begin: November 29, 2023
- Show Opens: December 18, 2023
- Show Closes: February 11, 2024
Hidden secrets and buried resentments can’t be contained when this family has a long-awaited reunion and forced to face the ghosts of their past.
Appropriate on Broadway Background
Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Drama Desk Award winner Lila Neugebauer invite you to one hell of a reunion in this darkly comic American family drama.
Show Ran Off-Broadway in 2014 and In London in 2019
The show previously ran off-Broadway in 2014 for 2 months. Its performance dates were Previews: Feb 25, 2014 • Opening: Mar 16, 2014 • Closing: Apr 13, 2014.
Appropriate opened at the Donmar Warehouse in London August 22, 2019, following previews from August 16. It played a limited run to October 5, 2019.
What’s Appropriate Like?
It’s summer, the cicadas are singing, and the Lafayette family has returned to their late patriarch’s Arkansas home to deal with the remains of his estate. Toni, the eldest daughter, hopes they’ll spend the weekend remembering and reconnecting over their beloved father.
Bo, her brother, wants to recoup some of the funds he spent caring for Dad at the end of his life. But things take a turn when their estranged brother, Franz, appears late one night, and mysterious objects are discovered among the clutter.
Suddenly, long-hidden secrets and buried resentments can’t be contained, and the family is forced to face the ghosts of their past.
Is Appropriate Good for Kids?
The dark subject matter of this show indicates that it may only be appropriate for children over the age of 16 years.
Theatre Information
Helen Hayes Theatre
New York, NY 10019
Cast Members
- Toni Lafayette
- Sarah Paulson
- Franz Lafayette
- Performer
- Rachael Kramer-Lafayette
- Natalie Gold
- Cassidy Kramer-Lafayette
- Alyssa Emily Marvin
- River Rayner
- TBA
- Rhys Thurston
- TBA
- Ainsley Kramer-Lafayette
- TBA
- Oliver Savell
- TBA
- Bo Lafayette
- TBA
- The Stranger
- TBA
Producers
Second Stage Theater
Creative Team
- Playwright
- Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
- Director
- Lila Neugebauer