Aasif Mandvi: A Work in Progress · Primary Stages (key art)
Kimberly Senior directs Aasif Mandvi’s new solo show, the inaugural project of the Primary Stages Studio Series at 59E59 Theaters in New York.
A funny, furious, and deeply personal solo show about the stories we tell ourselves, how long they hold, and what’s left when they finally don’t. Part immigrant epic, part celebrity confession, part 3am parental spiral, Mandvi traces the journey of an immigrant boy who crossed an ocean to chase the American dream, mastered every room he was never supposed to be in, and perfected the art of making the right people comfortable — only to realize that all along, the joke was on him.
The Studio Series gives artists a professional space to test their boldest ideas: audiences are invited into the living process of making theater, watching the work evolve over a limited run where no two nights are the same.
