by Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter
directed by Robert O’Hara
presented by Primary Stages, Martin Platt & David Elliott, Cheryl Weisenfeld, Patrick Blake
and Richard Jordan

We teamed up with Primary Stages on this one and brought on some great producing partners, including Cheryl Weisenfeld, my old business partner, Patrick Blake, and the English producer, Richard Jordan, with whom we partnered with on our first show at the Perry Street Theatre, Shylock.

The play, by Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter, is an absolutely brilliant piece of theater about the impact of AIDS in Africa and America on the lives of two unforgettably courageous women. Living worlds apart, one in South Central, L.A. and the other in Zimbabwe, each experience a kaleidoscopic weekend of life changing revelations in this story of parallel denials and self-discoveries.

it was brilliantly directed by Robert O’Hara and we were thrilled to co-produce it. We would later take the show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it played The Traverse Theatre and then on to Africa where it played the Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe; the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town, and the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa.

A U.S. Tour followed, with stops at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, in DC; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Center Theatre Group, in L.A., at Yale Repertory, Philadelphia Theatre Company, and the Goodman Theatre, in Chicago.

The show garnered raves from critics across the board:

“One of the highlights of the fall Off-Broadway season! Moving, smart, spirited, and powerfully funny! The fiercely talented cast is flawless! In The Continuum leaves behind a warm afterglow of human struggles explores, illumined, and embraced. It pulses with life from start to finish!” — The New York Times

“Unforgettable Theater!” In The Continuum resounds in that space between the unique and the universal, insisting the onstage world can quickly become its own. Altogether engrossing!” — Variety

“a must-see event! Earthy and startlingly funny! Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter are stars in the making and I expect it won’t be long before you’ll have to fork out a lot more money to see them in a much larger theater. Don’t wait to see In The Continuum.” — The Wall Street Journal