A Bright Room Called Day

a play by Tony Kushner

Oct 8-30 2026

Doors at 6:30pm / Show at 7pm

After a sold-out run last year, Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day is coming back this October, this time in an artist’s townhouse in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

The play follows a group of artists and activists in 1930s Berlin as fascism takes hold around them, and they decide whether to wait or act, stay or go, fight or flee. Kushner originally wrote Bright Room in the 1980s as a direct response to Reagan’s America. Nearly 40 years later, the parallels between Hitler’s Germany and today feel even more eerily resonant.

The play’s questions about art, politics, friendship, fear, and what we do as the world disintegrates around us become very immediate when you’re sitting in someone’s kitchen, a few feet from the people living through it. Just like we’re all living through it, more and more each day.

We’re thrilled to bring this production back with the same incredible team, in a new home and for another small group of audiences.

Directed Rachel Gita Karp
Co-produced by Rebecca Friday and Portal Rose
This production stars Molly Rose Heller*, Aubyn Heglie*, Aja Downing*, Portal Rose, Jonathan Bock, Ivory Aquino, Toni Jenkins, Michael Cavadias, Gideon Thaler, and Tom Nelis*. Stage managed by Hunter McIlvain, set and costume design by Justin Caron, sound design by Sid Diamond, projection design by Evan Frank, and lighting design by Jordan Barnett. Theresa Buchheister is the production’s Fairy Godfather.

Equity Approved Showcase - an asterisk (*) designates AEA members.

The show will run for 2 hours with one intermission.
Concessions will be available for sale.

If you are interested in buy tickets to the exclusive Benefit Performance on 10/24: https://events.humanitix.com/a-bright-room-called-day-benefit-show

Ticketing Tiers:

General Admission: $40

1) Angel Investor: $1000

Dress rehearsal invite on Oct 7th, 7pm (if you want to see behind the scenes!)
Drinks with creative team
the 2 best seats in the house for a night of your choice
signed playbill
2 drink tickets
name listed in playbill

2) Bright Room VIP: $500

2 premium reserved seats for a night of your choice
Dress rehearsal invite on Oct 7th, 7pm (if you want to see behind the scenes!)
signed playbill
2 drink tickets
name listed in playbill

3) Bright Room Buddy: $250

2 reserved seats for a night of your choice,
signed playbill
name listed in playbill
1 drink ticket

4) Supporter: $100

1 reserved seat
name in playbill
1 drink ticket

Accessibility Information:
The home is accessed up one flight of stairs. All tickets are general admission first come first serve, (unless reserved in advance via higher ticket tier). Fog may be used in this performance.

Transportation:
The apartment is closest to the C train Kingston-Throop Avs stop and the 3 train Kingston Av stop, as well as off the B43, B65, B15, B45, B25, and B44 bus lines. It’s also within walking distance of the A train Nostrand Av and Utica Av stops and the 2, 3, 4, 5 Nostrand Av and Crown Hts-Utica Av stops, and the LIRR Nostrand Av stop.

Contact the host of A Bright Room Called Day