Prodigal Son: Someone Saw Me

Performances begin January 19, 2016 off-Broadway at NY City Center Stage I. Prodigal Son World premiere play written and directed by John Patrick Shanley with Annika Boras, Timothée Chalamet, Robert Sean Leonard, Chris McGarry, David Potters Prodigal Son is a passionate, explosive portrait of a young man on the verge of salvation or destruction, written and directed by John Patrick Shanley (of Tony, Academy Award, and Pulitzer Prize fame). A 17-year-old boy (Timothée Chalamet) from The Bronx finds himself suddenly in a private school in New Hampshire. He’s violent, gifted, alienated, on fire with a ferocious loneliness. Two faculty members (Tony Award winner Robert Sean Leonard and Chris McGarry) wrestle with the dilemma: Is the kid a star or a disaster? The world premiere of Prodigal Son marks another exciting step forward in the collaboration between Manhattan Theatre Club and this visceral New York playwright (Doubt, Outside Mullinga