Kindness
Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Written by
Adam Rapp
Directed by Adam Rapp
An ailing mother and her teenaged son flee Illinois and a crumbling marriage for the relative calm and safety of a midtown Manhattan hotel. Mom holds tickets to a popular musical about love and redemption. Her son, a gifted student currently enrolled at a prestigious military academy, isn’t interested. So Mom takes the kindly cabdriver instead, while the boy entertains a visitor from down the hall, an enigmatic young woman seeking solace after a tumultuous, potentially dangerous evening. KINDNESS is a play about the possibility for sympathy in a harsh world and the meaning of mercy in the face of devastating circumstances.
Photos of (1) Christopher Denham and Annette O'Toole; (2) Annette O'Toole; (3) Katherine Waterston; and (4) Annette O'Toole and Ray Anthony Thomas by Joan Marcus.
“Compelling. A well-crafted mini-thriller, which keeps you in suspense until the final blackout.”
— Joe Dziemianowicz, Daily News“Adam Rapp proves himself the definitive director of his own work. Christopher Denham has the sly wit and restless intelligence to play Dennis.”
— Marilyn Stasio, Variety
“FOUR STARS. A terrifically robust performance from Annette O’Toole.”
— Diane Snyder, Time Out New York