{"id":139814,"date":"2026-03-16T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139814\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:00:06","slug":"james-ijamess-wilderness-generation-to-have-world-premiere-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139814\/","title":{"rendered":"James Ijames\u2019s Wilderness Generation to Have World Premiere in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1827960\" title=\"James Ijames and Taibi Magar (\u00a9 Carolina Vargas)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/James-Ijames-Taibi-Magar-_-Photo-by-CarolinaVargas.jpg\" alt=\"James Ijames and Taibi Magar (\u00a9 Carolina Vargas)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"\/>James Ijames and Taibi Magar <br \/>(\u00a9 Carolina Vargas)<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Theatre Company (PTC) will present the world premiere of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatermania.com\/shows\/pennsylvania-theater\/philadelphia-theater\/wilderness-generation_1827996\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wilderness Generation<\/a>, a new play by James Ijames, whose play Fat Ham earned the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The production, directed by PTC co-artistic<br \/>director and Obie Award winner Taibi Magar, runs April 10-May 3, with an opening night on April 15, at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Wilderness Generation brings four cousins together at their grandmother\u2019s house in the Tidewater South to decide the future of the family home over the course of a weekend. Laughter, memories, and long-held tensions collide as the cousins grapple with questions of inheritance, legacy, and whether preservation means holding on or learning to let go.<\/p>\n<p>Ijames returns to PTC after receiving the company\u2019s 2015 Terrence McNally Award for his play White.<\/p>\n<p>The cast of Wilderness Generation includes Lindsay Smiling as Micah, Brenson Thomas as Smitty, Jessica Johnson as Nicole, Heather Alicia Simms as Ramona, and Abdul Sesay as Donovan.<\/p>\n<p>The creative team includes scenic designer Matt Saunders, costume designer Kara Harmon, lighting designer Thom Weaver, projections designer Taj Rauch, sound designer Christopher Darbassie, and wig designer Katherine Casalino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Ijames and Taibi Magar (\u00a9 Carolina Vargas) Philadelphia Theatre Company (PTC) will present the world premiere of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-139814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-philadelphia","9":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","10":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}