FINAL PERFORMANCE WAS December 7th, 2014

World premiere play by Sharyn Rothstein
Directed by Hal Brooks

with Cassie Beck, Quincy Dunn-Baker, Charlotte Maier, Deirdre O’Connell, Tom Pelphrey, Ethan Phillips, Vyto Ruginis   

MTC’s The Studio at Stage II, in association with Ars Nova, presents Sharyn Rothstein’s BY THE WATER, the first world premiere production to come out of their unique partnership.

Hurricane Sandy has just ravaged the lifelong home of Marty and Mary Murphy. But the storm has ripped apart more than just the walls: with their neighbors too devastated to stay, the couple’s beloved Staten Island community is in danger of disappearing forever. Determined to rebuild, Marty wages a campaign to save his neighborhood and his home, but when the Murphys’ sons arrive to help their parents dig out, past betrayals come rushing to the surface.

With fierce compassion and poignant humor, BY THE WATER reminds us that the very powers that tear us apart can also bring us together.

BY THE WATER was commissioned by The Writer’s Room (Manhattan Theatre Club, Ars Nova). The Writer’s Room is a program to commission, develop and support playwrights in the process of creating new work for the stage.