Check out photos of opening night for Will Arbery's Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, making its New York premiere Off-Broadway at The Pershing Square Signature Center. The New Group season opener began previews October 26 in the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre for a run through December 14.
Set in Evanston, Illinois, where winters keep getting worse, salt truck drivers Peter and Basil battle the ice and snow and pass the time with jokes and stories. Their boss Maiworm has noble visions of new green technology that would make their jobs obsolete, but there may be a more terrifying warning calling out from under the roads.
Starring in the cast are Quincy Tyler Bernstine (Ruined, Mary Seacole), Jeb Kreager (Mare of Easttown, Heroes of the Fourth Turning), Ken Leung (Industry, Lost), and Rachel Sachnoff (Evanston Salt Costs Climbing at White Heron Theatre).
Danya Taymor directs the production, which features scenic design by Matt Saunders, costume design by Sarafina Bush, lighting design by Isabella Byrd, sound design by Mikaal Sulaiman, voice and text coaching by Gigi Buffington, and casting by Judy Henderson. The production stage manager is Rachel Denise April, and the assistant stage manager is Stephen Varnado.
Arbery previously penned Corsicana, which played at Playwrights Horizons earlier this year, and Heroes ofthe Fourth Turning, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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Mimi O'Donnell and Scott Elliott at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Sophie von Haselberg and Sarah Steele at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Will Arbery at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Danya Taymor and Will Arbery at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Jeb Kreager at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Rachel Sachnoff at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Danya Taymor at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Scott Elliott and Danya Taymor at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Quincy Tyler Bernstine at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Ken Leung at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Jeb Kreager, Rachel Sachnoff, Quincy Tyler Bernstine and Ken Leung at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Jeb Kreager, Rachel Sachnoff, Quincy Tyler Bernstine and Ken Leung at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Jeb Kreager, Rachel Sachnoff, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Ken Leung, Danya Taymor and Will Arbery at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Jeb Kreager, Rachel Sachnoff, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Ken Leung, Danya Taymor and Will Arbery at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Robert Nobel, Juliana Canfield, and Zoe Winters at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Zadie Smith, Jesse Armstrong, Robert Noble, Juliana Canfield, Tony Roche, Justine Lupe and Zoe Winters at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Edmund Donovan, Will Arbery, and Juliana Canfield at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Jeb Kreager and Scott Elliott at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Justine Lupe, Adam Rapp, Gayle Rankin and Sarah DeLappe at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Quincy Tyler Bernstine and Ayo Edebiri at opening night of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
