Now Playing at Cherry Lane Theatre
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Now Playing at Cherry Lane Theatre 〰️
School Pictures
by Milo Cramer
NOW PLAYING AT THE CHERRY LANE THEATRE
Playwrights Horizons Fall 2023
The Wilma Theater Fall 2022
This playful collection of poem-songs, written and performed by Milo Cramer – a former tutor – paints intimate portraits of ten NYC students fighting to get into competitive schools. School Pictures is a charming musical journal of keen observations which builds to a sweeping meditation on inequality, learning, parenting, and the cruelty of puberty.
Set and costume- Jean Kim
Lighting design- Isabella Gill
Photo credit- Johanna Austin
Vulture / New York Magazine article 'best play of 2023'
Cramer has the students, tutors, and teachers rapt from basically their first sentence (“Charlotte is in seventh grade; she wants to be an actress”) and certainly from the fourth (“Charlotte has radical dramaturgical ideas”).
The setup, a pseudo musical, has Mr. Cramer wailing funny songs that tell the stories of individual, fictionalized students accompanied by a ukulele and, at one point, a toy piano.
This American Life episode, "The Question Trap, Chapter 4: Can I Help You?"
