{"id":225800,"date":"2026-05-09T17:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/225800\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T17:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:16:27","slug":"benedict-lombes-shifters-to-play-cherry-lane-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/225800\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedict Lombe\u2019s Shifters to Play Cherry Lane Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatermania.com\/?attachment_id=1836210\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1836210 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1836210 size-large\" title=\"1 Heather Agyepong Des C Marc Brenner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-Heather-Agyepong-Des-C-Marc-Brenner.webp.webp\" alt=\"1 Heather Agyepong Des C Marc Brenner\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/><\/a>Heather Agyepong in the West End production of Shifters <br \/>(\u00a9 Marc Brenner)<\/p>\n<p>Cherry Lane Theatre will host the North American premiere of Benedict Lombe\u2019s Shifters, which is set to begin previews July 6 ahead of an official opening July 15. Performances are scheduled through August 30.<\/p>\n<p>Heather Agyepong and Daniel Ezra will star as Des and Dre, old friends with a deep connection. She got out, and he stayed, but she has returned for his grandmother\u2019s wake, temporarily causing their past to come flooding back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WhatsOnStage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsonstage.com\/news\/shifters-at-the-bush-theatre-review_1578048\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">described<\/a> it as \u201ca play unafraid to take its time, unfolding with careful tenderness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Agyepong reprises her Olivier-nominated performance, which she originated at London\u2019s Bush Theatre, where the play performed in 2024 before transferring to the West End\u2019s Duke of York Theatre later that year. Lynette Linton, who helmed those production, once again directs here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Agyepong has been seen in School Girls; or The African Mean Girls Play. Ezra has appeared on Netflix\u2019s All American.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This New York transfer is being produced by Eleanor Lloyd Productions and Chuchu Nwagu Productions, in association with Sonia Friedman Productions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heather Agyepong in the West End production of Shifters (\u00a9 Marc Brenner) Cherry Lane Theatre will host the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-225800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}