A new production of Eric Bentley’s 1972 play, Are You Now or Have You Ever Been, will play a limited 15-week engagement at New York City Center Stage I beginning June 2.
A rotating all-star cast to be announced will be part of the docudrama that drops audiences into the tense world of the 1940s House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings. Using only the original transcripts, the play features the words of Arthur Miller, Jerome Robbins, Paul Robeson, Elia Kazan, Lillian Hellman, Abe Burrows, and Lionel Stander as they faced impossible choices: defend their integrity, protect their careers, or betray their peers.
