The Inheritance

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Matthew López' The Inheritance wins 4 Tony Awards, including Best Play, Best Director 

'The Inheritance’ wins best play, making Matthew López the first Latino writer to take home the award. Both López and director Stephen Daldry thank dramaturg Elizabeth Williamson in their acceptance speeches. Watch here: 2021 Tony Award for Best Play

"“The Inheritance,” a two-part, six-and-a-half-hour play about the legacy of AIDS in New York, dominated the Olivier Awards on Sunday night, winning four trophies at the British equivalent of the Tony Awards. At the Royal Albert Hall in London, the play, by Matthew Lopez, won best new play, best director for Stephen Daldry, best actor for Kyle Soller, and best lighting design for Jon Clark.." -- The New York Times

★★★★★ – The Sunday Times, Telegraph, Evening Standard, Gay Times

★★★★— Guardian, Time Out, The Times, The Independent

“Lopez’s The Inheritance, a two-play, seven-hour work exploring the reverberations of the 1980s AIDS epidemic for a new generation of gay men, is certainly epic…[Lopez] attributes the success of the play to the support offered by Williamson.”  

--Mark Ravenhill, The Sunday Times

“To watch The Inheritance is to pass from engaged but detached interest into a realm of total absorption before arriving at a state of emotionally shattered but elated awe… Star ratings are almost beside the point when confronted by work of this magnitude but hell, yeah, five.”

--The Telegraph 

“Stop the clocks; the race is won. Here is the play of this year and last year and quite possibly next year as well.”

--The Evening Standard

“pierces your emotional defences, raises any number of political issues and enfolds you in its narrative.”

--The Guardian

"I challenge any theatergoer with a heart not to cry during the sun-saturated scene that concludes the first half of “The Inheritance.”"

-- The New York Times

THE INHERITANCE

World Premiere by Matthew López

Directed by Stephen Daldry

Young Vic/West End/Broadway

Designer Bob Crowley 

Lighting Jon Clark 

Sound Paul Arditti & Christopher Reid 

Music Paul Englishby 

Associate Director Justin Martin 

Dramaturg Elizabeth Williamson 

The Inheritance UK cast featured Hugo Bolton, Robert Boulter, Andrew Burnap, Hubert Burton, John Benjamin Hickey, Paul Hilton, Samuel H. Levine, Syrus Lowe, Michael Marcus, Jack Riddiford, Kyle Soller, Michael Walters and Vanessa Redgrave