Off-Broadway NewsJesse Eisenberg, Michael Zegen, Kunal Nayyar, More Reunite for a Virtual Reading of The Spoils July 30The New Group presents Eisenberg's comedy online following its 2015 staging.
By
Dan Meyer
July 30, 2020
Oscar nominee and playwright Jesse Eisenberg, Michael Zegen, Kunal Nayyar, Erin Darke, and Annapurna Sriram reunite July 30 at 7 PM ET for a virtual live stream reading of The Spoils.
The comedy, written by Eisenberg, made its world premiere at The New Group in a 2015 production directed by Scott Elliott, who returns to direct the digital presentation.
In The Spoils, nobody likes Ben. Ben doesn’t even like Ben. He’s been kicked out of grad school, lives off his parents’ money, and bullies everyone in his life, including his roommate. When Ben discovers that his grade school crush is marrying a straight-laced banker, he sets out to destroy their relationship and win her back.
Click here for tickets to the reading. For The Spoils, 10 percent of proceeds will benefit the Immigrant Freelance Artists for Theatre Fund. The reading will be archived to watch on demand until August 2.
Following its debut Off-Broadway, the play was seen at Trafalgar Studios in London’s West End in 2016, again starring Eisenberg and directed by Elliott.
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.