The first production photographs of We'll See find the Apples where Richard Nelson has always found them: around a dinner table in Rhinebeck, talking. Joan Marcus shot the world premiere at The Public Theater, which opens on election night, Tuesday, November 3.
Nelson wrote and directed the play, the newest installment in The Rhinebeck Panorama, his 12-play cycle about three families in the Hudson Valley town. It is set on midterm election day, November 3, 2026, and The Public has timed its official opening for that same evening. Performances began in the Barbaralee Theater on Sunday, October 25, with a Joseph Papp Free Performance, and the run now continues through Sunday, November 29 after the one-week extension announced before previews.
The four Apple siblings are played by the actors reprising their roles: Jay O. Sanders as Richard, Maryann Plunkett as Barbara, Sally Murphy as Jane and Laila Robins as Marian. Yvonne Woods is the newcomer to the table, as Richard's partner, Yvonne. The family meets at Barbara's for supper on a night when nobody is calm, and between the stories, the jokes, the food and the songs, they circle a harder question: whether they now know themselves mainly by what they stand against.
It is the family's first time on The Public's stage since 2013. Their run there began in 2010 with That Hopey Changey Thing and continued through Sweet and Sad, Sorry and Regular Singing; during the pandemic, Nelson kept them going in three plays made for Zoom. "We last met the Apple Family on Zoom during the pandemic," he said. "Today we find them, like ourselves, in uncharted territory, confused, upset, lost, asking, as always, what have we become?"
The design team is Jason Ardizzone-West (sets), Susan Hilferty (costumes), Jennifer Tipton (lighting) and Scott Lehrer (sound design and music).
Performances run Tuesday through Sunday at 7:30 p.m., with 1:30 p.m. matinees on Saturdays and Sundays. There are no matinees on Saturday, October 31 or Sunday, November 1, and two extra matinees are added on Tuesday, November 24 and Wednesday, November 25 at 1:30 p.m.; there is no evening performance on November 25 and no performance on Thanksgiving, November 26. The 7:30 p.m. show on Friday, November 20 is ASL-interpreted, and the 1:30 p.m. matinee on Saturday, November 21 is both audio described and open captioned.
Tickets for We'll See are on sale now.
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