Adam Rapp

The Hallway Trilogy

Adam Rapp

"Rapp remains a true man of the theater and a potent writer."—Time Out «To watch The Hallway Trilogy by Adam Rapp is to enter an alternate universe . . . a carnival of the desperate, the grotesque, the outrageous.»—The New York Times «I knew in a single sentence that Adam was a writer the world was going to listen to for as long as he felt like writing. . . . Adam writes like nobody else, his fierce poetic power as inescapable as the doom that waits for his characters. The work is bleak and true, his touch that of a master in the making.»—Marsha Norman Multi-talented artist and provocateur Adam Rapp shocks and disturbs, weaving themes of love, suffering, and redemption throughout this alarming yet heartening critical examination of societal change. Spanning one hundred years in one Lower East Side tenement hallway, this series of connected plays—Rose, Paraffin, and Nursing—is a dark and compelling exploration of what binds people together and drives them apart. Packed with searing dialogue and harrowing narratives, The Hallway Trilogy «bristles with humor» and «contains some of Rapp's most sensitive and mature writing» (The New York Times). Adam Rapp is a novelist, filmmaker, and an OBIE Award–winning playwright and director. His plays include the Pulitzer Prize finalist Red Light Winter, Nocturne, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Finer Noble Gases, Essential Self-Defense, and more. He is the author of many young adult novels such as Punkzilla, The Buffalo Tree, and Under the Dog, and the writer and director of the film Winter Passing, starring Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell, and Ed Harris.

The Sound Inside

Adam Rapp

The Sound Inside received its world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the summer of 2018. The production starred Mary-Louise Parker and was directed by David Cromer. The Williamstown production will transfer to Broadway in the fall of 2019 at Studio 54, with the same cast. The play was commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater. The Sound Inside was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. NYT critic Jesse Green named the play one of his top 10 shows of 2018. Rapp’s play Red Light Winter was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2006. The play also earned him an Obie Award as well as Outer Critics Circle and Lortel nominations. Rapp’s other plays include The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois, Wolf in the River , The Metal Children. His playwriting honors include Boston’s Elliot Norton Award, The Helen Merrill Prize, The 2006 Princess Grace Statue, a Lucille Lortel Playwright’s Fellowship, The Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Award. In addition to writing plays, Rapp is also a director. He directed the world premiere of Karen O’s psycho opera, Stop The Virgens , for The Creators Project at St. Ann’s Warehouse, which was then selected for The Vivid Live Festival, where it sold out the Sydney Opera House for six performances. He also directed Sam Shepard’s True West at Actors Theatre of Louisville, which went on to be named one of the 2012 Best Moments in Culture by Louisville’s N.P.R. Affiliate, WFPL. His production of Finer Noble Gases garnered a Fringe First Award at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where he received The List’s Best Newcomer Prize. Rapp has taught at the Yale School of Drama.