{"id":370970,"date":"2026-10-12T13:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370970\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T13:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:21:11","slug":"get-a-1st-look-at-ayn-rands-night-of-january-16th-macbeth-off-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370970\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a 1st Look at Ayn Rand&#8217;s Night of January 16th, Macbeth Off-Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get a first look at the Ruth Stage production of\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/ayn-rand-vault-0000012889\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ayn Rand<\/a>&#8216;s interactive courtroom drama Night of January 16th with the production photos in the gallery below.\u00a0Previews began\u00a0October 7 at Theatre Row ahead of an\u00a0October 11 opening night.\u00a0Performances will continue through October 18.<\/p>\n<p>The work, first performed in Los Angeles in 1934, casts audience members as the jury in the trial of Karen Andre, a former secretary accused of murdering her businessman lover.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Stage chairman and creative director Matt\u00a0De Rogatis plays\u00a0Faulkner and \u201cGuts\u201d Regan in the company\u2019s radical reimagining of Rand\u2019s courtroom drama, joined by\u00a0Christa B. Allen as Karen Andre,\u00a0Maryam Basir\u00a0as District Attorney Flint,\u00a0Hannah Beemer as Lady Justice,\u00a0Dylan Joseph Lee Catania as Siegurd Jungquist,\u00a0Nelson DePasquale as John Hutchin,\u00a0Milton Elliott as Elmer Sweeney,\u00a0Prince Hamadi as Dr. Kirkland and James Chandler,\u00a0Jim Kempner as John Graham Whitfield,\u00a0Bethany Lanza as Magda Svenson,\u00a0Joe Pandosh as Homer Van Fleet,\u00a0Emily Slass as Nancy Lee Faulkner,\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/gary-stevens-vault-0000058110\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Stevens<\/a> as Defense Attorney Stevens, and Theo Devaney as Judge Heath.<\/p>\n<p>Theo Devaney is also directing the production, which features scenic and lighting design by Christian Specht and sound design by Tomas Correa.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruthstage.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RuthStage.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get a first look at the Ruth Stage production of\u00a0Ayn Rand&#8216;s interactive courtroom drama Night of January 16th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-370970","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\/370970","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=370970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}