{"id":228680,"date":"2026-05-12T16:14:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/228680\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:14:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:14:49","slug":"huac-drama-are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-to-be-revived-off-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/228680\/","title":{"rendered":"HUAC Drama Are You Now or Have You Ever Been to Be Revived Off-Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1836564 size-large\" title=\"Anna D Shapiro\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Anna-D-Shapiro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/>Anna D. Shapiro will direct the off-Broadway revival of Are You Now or Have You Ever Been.<br \/>(\u00a9 David Gordon)<\/p>\n<p>Eric Bentley\u2019s docudrama Are You Now or Have You Ever Been\u00a0will play a 15-week engagement this summer at New York City Center Stage I, beginning June 2.<\/p>\n<p>The play uses transcripts of the testimony given by cultural figures like Arthur Miller, Jerome Robbins, Paul Robeson, Elia Kazan, Lillian Hellman, and Abe Burrows before the 1940s House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The title references the primary question posed to witnesses before that committee: \u201cAre you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?\u201d It explores how these figures responded under pressure from a congressional committee\u2013by defending their integrity, protecting their careers, and sometimes by ratting out their peers.<\/p>\n<p>Tony winner Anna D, Shapiro (August: Osage County) directs the production. Casting will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The design team includes Andrew Boyce (scenic designer), Johanna Pan (costume designer), Donald Holder (lighting designer), Milbo Music (sound designer), and Brittany Bland (projections designer).<\/p>\n<p>Eric Bentley was one of the great theater critics of the 20th century, largely credited with championing the work of Bertolt Brecht in the United States. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatermania.com\/news\/esteemed-critic-translator-and-playwright-eric-bentley-dies-at-103_91287\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died in 2020<\/a>, at the age of 103.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anna D. Shapiro will direct the off-Broadway revival of Are You Now or Have You Ever Been.(\u00a9 David&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-228680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228680","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=228680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}