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subUrbia is an Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway

Off Broadway theater is an umbrella term for a defined set of Play , musical theater or revues performed in New York City. Originally referring to the location of a venue and its productions on a street intersecting Broadway in Manhattan's Theatre District, New York, the hub of the theater industry in the United States, the term later becam...
 stageplay by Eric Bogosian
Eric Bogosian

Eric Bogosian is an United States actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist....
 set against the nighttime activities of a group of aimless 20-somethings and a reunion with a former high school classmate who has become a successful musician. It's a slacker version of Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" with the musician Pony's return giving the lie to the excuses the rest use to remain stuck in their meaningless dead-end hometown existences.






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subUrbia is an Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway

Off Broadway theater is an umbrella term for a defined set of Play , musical theater or revues performed in New York City. Originally referring to the location of a venue and its productions on a street intersecting Broadway in Manhattan's Theatre District, New York, the hub of the theater industry in the United States, the term later becam...
 stageplay by Eric Bogosian
Eric Bogosian

Eric Bogosian is an United States actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist....
 set against the nighttime activities of a group of aimless 20-somethings and a reunion with a former high school classmate who has become a successful musician. It's a slacker version of Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" with the musician Pony's return giving the lie to the excuses the rest use to remain stuck in their meaningless dead-end hometown existences. A film version
Suburbia (film)

Suburbia, also known as Rebel Streets and The Wild Side, is a 1984 in film written and directed by Penelope Spheeris about suburban punks who run away from home....
 of the play was made in 1996 starring Steve Zahn
Steve Zahn

Steven James "Steve" Zahn is an United States comedian and actor of both film and theatre....
, Parker Posey
Parker Posey

Parker Christian Posey is an United States actor. She became known during the 1990s, after a series of roles in several well-received independent films....
 and Giovanni Ribisi
Giovanni Ribisi

'Antonino Giovanni Ribisi' is an United States actor. His film credits include Perfect Stranger , Heaven , Gone in Sixty Seconds , Saving Private Ryan, That Thing You Do!, Boiler Room , subUrbia , The Gift , Basic , Lost in Translation , Flight of the Phoenix, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow'...
. The play was recently done onstage at Second Stage Theatre
Second Stage Theatre

Second Stage Theatre is a contemporary American Off-Broadway theater company. It was founded by Carole Rothman and Robyn Goodman in 1979. The name refers to the intention to give 'second stagings' to contemporary American plays that originally failed to find an audience due to scheduling problems, inappropriate venues or limited performanc...
 with Kieran Culkin
Kieran Culkin

Kieran Kyle Culkin is an United States Golden Globe-nominated actor.Culkin was born in New York City, the son of Patricia Brentrup and Kit Culkin, a former stage actor with a long career on Broadway theatre....
, Gaby Hoffmann
Gaby Hoffmann

Gabriella Mary Hoffmann is an American actor. Hoffmann?s mother, Viva , is an actress and writer and appeared in many of Andy Warhol's movies during the 1960s....
 and Jessica Capshaw
Jessica Capshaw

Jessica Capshaw is an United States actress, perhaps best known for her role as attorney Jamie Stringer on the American Broadcasting Company legal drama The Practice....
.

Characters
Tim
Buff
Jeff
Sooze
Bee-Bee
Norman
Pakeeza
Pony
Erica

Setting
In front of a corner store

'"Audience'"
This show is not recommended for those weak of heart, easily offended, or easily distraught. There are copious amounts of sex, drug and alcohol usage, profanity, oftentimes cigarette smoke, and violence. Before attending a performance of this show, please take all this into consideration.