Off-Broadway’s
Atlantic Theater Company celebrated the opening of Rolin Jones’ roller derby play,
The Jammer, on Tuesday, January 22. Following the performance at Atlantic Stage 2, the company and guests gathered at Jake’s Saloon to mark the occasion.
Jackson Gay, who previously collaborated with Jones and the Atlantic on the Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, helms the fast-rolling comedy, which stars Patch Darragh (The Glass Menagerie) as Jack Lovington, a 1950s-era Brooklynite who finds his life’s purpose when he joins a traveling roller derby team. But he just can’t seem to shake the memories of the longtime fiancée that he left, Aurora (Keira Naughton), despite the advances of the hard-boiled, foul-mouthed Lindy (Jeanine Serralles). The company also includes Dan Domingues (The Cherry Orchard), Christopher Jackson (In the Heights), Billy Eugene Jones (The Mountaintop), Kate Rigg (The Dogeaters), Greg Stuhr (Offices), and Todd Weeks (Bluebird).
Guests at the festivities included actors Michael Chernus (In the Wake), Peter Maloney (The New York Idea), Chandler Williams (In the Next Room…), and playwright Lucy Thurber (Scarcity).
Check out our gallery of opening night photos below.
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The cast of The Jammer take their opening night curtain call on Wilson Chin’s set at Atlantic Stage 2.
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Atlantic Theater artistic director Neil Pepe and his wife, Atlantic Acting School executive director Mary McCann, flank the show’s jammin’ leading man, Patch Darragh.
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Playwright Rolin Jones and director Jackson Gay previously collaborated on his 2006 Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow.
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Cast members Kate Rigg (derby player Cindy Gums) and Jeanine Serralles (the foul-mouthed player Lindy) celebrate their opening night at Jake’s Saloon.
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Keira Naughton (Hunting and Gathering) and Christopher Jackson (In the Heights) appear in the drama as Beth Nutterman/Aurora and Charlie Heartbreak.
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Dan Domingues (The Cherry Orchard) and Billy Eugene Jones (The Mountaintop) co-star as Father Domingo and Derby team manager Lenny Ringle.
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Greg Stuhr (Offices) and Todd Weeks (Blackbird) round-out the company as game announcer Bert Feinberg and Father Kosciusko.
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Atlantic family members Todd Weeks, Mary McCann, Peter Maloney (The New York Idea), and Neil Pepe celebrate The Jammer at Jake’s Saloon.
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Director Jackson Gay gets close with her friend and collaborator, playwright Lucy Thurber (Scarcity).
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New York theater veterans Michael Chernus (In the Wake) and Chandler Williams (In the Next Room…) are glad to be out of the cold New York night to roll with The Jammer.
(© David Gordon)
