When the stock market crashes in October 1929, the Roaring Twenties come to a screeching halt, and the lives of people everywhere will never be the same.

Dot, the secretary for the VP of the New York Stock Exchange, skips town with a rag-tag band of misfits and embarks on a decades-spanning journey involving financiers, lounge singers, crime novelists, cops, hobos, vigilantes, beekeepers, and even the French. Try as they might, they can’t outrun alternate history in this chaotic reimagining of the Great Crash. 

A dark screwball comedy with memorable characters, toe-tapping tunes, and featuring… the total collapse of the US of A!

PRESS

Authority Magazine: DIRECTOR AND DESIGNER MAX FRIEDMAN… (AUG 22, 2022)
Brooklyn Daily Eagle: ROSEN’S REVIEW - GRAHAM TECHLER IS ONE OF BROOKLYN’S BEST YOUNG COMEDIC MINDS (Aug 22, 2022)
Hi! Drama: MARK SAVITT AND EVA HEINEMANN REVIEW (Aug 15, 2022)
Playbill: CHECKING IN WITH… THE PANIC OF ‘29 STAR OLIVIA PUCKETT (Aug 5, 2022)
Broadway World: REVIEW: GET READY TO EXPERIENCE THE PANIC OF ‘29 AT 59E59 THEATERS (Aug 3, 2022)
Theatermania: REVIEW: A STOCK MARKET CRASH GETS A SCREWBALL TAKE IN THE PANIC OF ‘29 (Aug 3, 2022)
DC Theater Arts: A MADCAP REIMAGINING OF THE GREAT CRASH IN THE PANIC OF ‘29 AT NYC’S 59E59 (Aug 3, 2022)
Talking Broadway: OFF BROADWAY REVIEWS: THE PANIC OF ‘29 (July 31, 2022)
Front Row Center: REVIEW: THE PANIC OF ‘29 (July 31, 2022)
Theatermania: INTERVIEW: WILL ROLAND AND MAX FRIEDMAN BRING THE PANIC OF ‘29 TO 59 (July 29, 2022)
DC Theater Arts: BROADWAY’S WILL ROLAND GIVES A SNEAK PEEK AT THE WORLD-PREMIERE PLAY… (July 14, 2022)
American Theatre: 59E59 THEATERS ANNOUNCE 5 COVID RELIEF GRANTS (Feb 18, 2021)

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THE PANIC OF ‘29

BY GRAHAM TECHLER
DIRECTED BY MAX FRIEDMAN

JULY 23 - AUGUST 20, 2022
59 E 59 - THEATER B

CAST

OLIVIA PUCKETT DOT
BRIAN MORABITO RICHARD WHITNEY
WILL ROLAND JIMMY ARMSTRONG
JULIA KNITEL LADY GENEROSITY
JOYELLE NICOLE JOHNSON EVA
JAELA CHEEKS-LOMAX INGRID & OTHERS
WILL TURNER OFFICER KENT & OTHERS
JARED LOFTIN GRONTON & MANY OTHERS
RJ VAILLANCOURT OSWALD & MANY OTHERS
RACHEL B. JOYCE TOMMY GUN TOMMY & MANY OTHERS
DEVIN KESSLER UNDERSTUDY: EVA, INGRID
PJ ADZIMA UNDERSTUDY: RICHARD WHITNEY, OSWALD
JACOB PRESSON UNDERSTUDY: JIMMY, GRONTON
RACHEL RAVEL UNDERSTUDY: DOT, LADY GENEROSITY, TOMMY GUN TOMMY
AMBER AVANT UNDERSTUDY: EVA, INGRID

CREATIVE TEAM

PLAYWRIGHT GRAHAM TECHLER
DIRECTOR & SCENIC DESIGN MAX FRIEDMAN
ORCHESTRATIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS BARRETT RIGGINS
COSTUME DESIGN CORINA CHASE
LIGHT DESIGN JAMIE RODERICK
SOUND DESIGN MARGARET MONTAGNA
PROPERTIES BRANDY HOANG COLLIER
FIGHT & INTIMACY DIRECTOR LEXI ORPHANOS
DRAMATURG NORA BRIGID MONAHAN
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER KAREN SCHLEIFER
STAGE MANAGER KATE HOLLAND
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER MCKENNA QUIGLEY HARRINGTON
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR EDDIE POWERS
ASSOCIATE SCENIC DESIGN WILLIAM ANDERSON
WARDROBE SUPERVISOR ALEX WOLF
WRITERS ASSISTANT DARIA KENT
SOCIAL MEDIA ASSISTANT SYLVIE TAMAR
COVID SAFETY MANAGER SABINA FRIEDMAN-SEITZ
PRESS REPRESENTATIVE MATT ROSS