A love letter to rural life in West Virginia Brandon McCoy admits that he has written a love letter to his home state of West Virginia. McCoy has created a work that is both personal and heartachingly relatable to anyone who has pulled up roots and moved away from home. And yet, his home of
“West By God” is a new play by Brandon McCoy, a West Virginia native transplanted to the DC metro area, who is Keegan Theatre’s current Playwright in Residence. I mention that McCoy is a West Virginia native because West “By God” Virginia happens to be central to the theme of his play about roots, family,
Brandon McCoy’s WEST BY GOD stands tall at the divide of rural and urban America Snowshoe Mountain, Morgantown and the New River Gorge Bridge all co-star in Brandon McCoy’s “West By God,” a West Virginia love letter punctuated with postcard scenery. Seeing those images projected across the Keegan Theatre set should entice audiences to schedule
The economic and social plight of America’s white rural working class has been the subject of recent blockbuster books from J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy to Educated, by Tara Westover. Now this disheartened population has become the focus of DC-area playwright Brandon McCoy, a native of West Virginia, who looks homeward in his new and well-intentioned
Brandon McCoy play debuts September 27 August 22, 2019: The Keegan Theatre announces the cast and creative team of Brandon McCoy’s heartwarming new play WEST BY GOD, making its world premiere on September 27, 2019 at The Andrew Keegan Theatre in Washington, DC. Following its premiere in DC, WEST BY GOD will travel to West
April 24, 2018: The Keegan Theatre presents the Washington, DC premiere of Laura Eason’s hilarious and heartbreaking play THE UNDENIABLE SOUND OF RIGHT NOW on May 5, 2018. Directed by Brandon McCoy, the play features a stellar cast with Chris Stezin, Susan Marie Rhea, Jessie Power, Josh Sticklin, Kevin Hasser, and Ryan Sellers. It’s 1992. Chicago. Hank is
…there is a deeply satisfying core of truth running through Ackerman’s writing, making this entertaining play far more than a superficial farce.
Keegan’s new play asks us to take a look at our most secret desires, and, as it spills out intimate details about bedroom mores, it keeps us in stitches – sometimes screamingly so.
Be prepared for your gut to hurt after watching Keegan Theatre’s Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight because you’ll have been laughing for the last 85 minutes.
The Keegan Theatre’s Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight is a funny, brutally honest, and surprisingly deep look at relationships and identity.
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