Playwright Sarah Burgess (Dry Powder) and Tony-winning director Thomas Kail (Hamilton, Tiny Beautiful Things, Dry Powder) team up again for KINGS, a hilariously blistering new play about money, politics and the state of the American republic.

Kate is a whip-smart lobbyist who doesn’t waste her time on anyone who can’t get elected, stay elected and help her clients get what they want. Kate thinks Representative Sydney Millsap is a political neophyte whose staunch ideals are going to cost her a burgeoning political career.

But Representative Millsap and her high-minded principles turn out to be more resilient than Washington was expecting, and for the first time Kate is faced with a choice that might change everything for her: back the system, or back what she believes in?

KINGS is a scathingly funny new play about the people at the heart of our democracy.

Playwright Sarah Burgess impressed theater audiences in 2016 with her play Dry Powder, an insightful behind-the scenes picture of private equity firms.  Directed by Thomas Kail (Hamilton) and produced by The Public Theater, the drama illustrated the driving force of money. In her newest work, again directed by Kail, Burgess tackles the finances of politics, notably donors and lobbyists.  The two young lobbyists in the drama, Kate (Gillian Jacobs) and Lauren (Aya Cash), are courting Rep. Sydney Millsap, a woman thrust into politics. Millsap is a Gold Star wife and the first person of color to represent her district. Eisa Davis depicts Millsap as an optimistic candidate fatigued by the tedium of fundraising.  Despite it all, she tries to stick to her principles.  She announces that she’ll take donors’ money but won’t necessarily do what they want unless it meets the needs of her constituents. Later she idealistically votes to levy taxes on fund managers and, consequently, begins to lose important financial support. When Texas Senator John McDowell (the always wonderful Zach Grenier) tells her that she’s destroyed her career, she decides to run against him in the primaries and wins. L …Read more