Join the School of Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. April 22-26 at the Welsbacher Black Box Theatre in the Hughes Metropolitan Complex for the production of “Time Stands Still.” A matinee will be at 2 p.m. April 25-26. Tickets are $18 for faculty/staff, and WSU students can get one ticket at no additional charge with their Shocker ID, thanks to the Student Government Association.
Directed by Sheldon Mba, “Time Stands Still” by Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Margulies is a riveting, deeply human drama set in a Brooklyn apartment, where photojournalist Sarah and her partner James, a foreign correspondent, attempt to heal and recalibrate after returning from the front lines of war. As they settle back into domestic life, their ideals, ambitions and love for one another are quietly and powerfully tested. Margulies crafts a nuanced story about bearing witness to a global suffering and the personal cost of stepping away. With sharp dialogue and emotional precision, “Time Stands Still” invites viewers to confront the tension between comfort and conscience, intimacy and independence, and what they owe to the world versus what the owe to themselves.