Pictures From Home

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Pictures From Home

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  1w, 2m

Based on the Photo Memoir Pictures From Home by Larry Sultan

This slyly poignant and theatrically inventive Broadway play explores the family dynamic when photographer Larry Sultan decides to turn the lens on his parents, exposing darker truths beneath their sunny veneer.

Image: 2023 Broadway Production (Julieta Cervantes)

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 2m
  • Duration
    Duration
    105 Minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Docudrama/History
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary
Playwright Sharr White transforms photographer Larry Sultan’s landmark photo memoir for the stage in this new three-character play. In the 1980s, Sultan spent a decade photographing and interviewing his parents and unearthing the memories beneath his family’s home movies. The result is a deeply intimate and comic portrait of a mother, a father and their son. Though set in the recent past, this poignant and theatrically inventive play is both of-the-moment and timeless.
History
Pictures From Home premiered on Broadway at Studio 54 on 9 February 2023. Directed by Bartlett Sher, the production starred Danny Burstein, Nathan Lane and Zoë Wanamaker.
Cast Attributes
LARRY SULTAN
IRVING SULTAN – Larry’s father
JEAN SULTAN – Larry’s mother
  • Time Period 1980s
  • Setting The Sultan’s tract home in California’s San Fernando Valley, circa 1981.
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Additional Features No Intermission
  • Duration 105 Minutes
  • Cautions
    • Strong Language

Media

“A sweet and wise Broadway play... a rare gift, to be wisely used.” – New York Daily News

“Humming with vibrant humor.” – The Wall Street Journal

“Thoughtful... [White] pulls at the threads of Irving’s vanity and petulance, unwinding them from his other qualities to provide the lurid outlines of a personality.” – The New York Times

“Sharr White’s comic drama... emerges as a moving and amusing portrait of an adult son desperately trying to connect with his parents... The universality of its themes and the power of its performances make it pack an emotional punch.” – New York Stage Review

“The gulf between image and reality is a central concern of the play... an examination of what it means to be successful, or appear successful, as a man in America.” – TimeOut New York

Pictures From Home frequently pierces through its own nostalgia with an observation clear and crisp as a brand new Polaroid... the intimate and honest views of a family’s inner workings can’t help but touch our hearts at steadily paced moments.” – Deadline

“A sweet and wise Broadway play about just wanting your mom and dad to keep on going, to wish they could live for ever and to realize that any artist can complain and roar but some wise ones choose instead to render their loved ones immortal... A rare gift, to be wisely used.” – New York Daily News

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    Pictures from Home – Broadway Reviews Trailer

Photos

  • Pictures From Home

    Image: 2023 Broadway Production (Julieta Cervantes)

  • Pictures From Home

    Image: 2023 Broadway Production (Julieta Cervantes)

Licensing & Materials

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Authors

Sharr White

Sharr White’s Pictures From Home premiered on Broadway at Studio 54 in 2023, with Bartlett Sher directing Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein and Zoe Wannamaker. Other Broadway credits include The Other Place at Manhattan Theatre Club (Joe Mantello, dir., Laurie Metcalf, Tony nom.); ...
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