Expertly directed! A Stellar Cast! This production is remarkable — Buzz News
Astounding, jaw-dropping and career-making performances of a brilliant cast — CTR
The Ally

★ 2025 Pulitzer Prize Finalist ★

From the Tony Award-winning author of The Band's Visit comes a provocative new play about identity, loyalty, and the complexities of allyship.

When Asaf's student asks him to sign a manifesto condemning police brutality, he wants to help — until he realizes the petition says more than he's ready to stand behind. As the debate roars through his Midwestern campus and his ex-girlfriend takes the lead, Asaf is pulled into a political storm that tests his convictions and his sense of self. Will his fumbling entrée into activism help or hurt the cause? The Ally, a darkly funny and deeply human new play by Itamar Moses (The Band's Visit, Completeness), asks us: just whose side are you on?

Itamar Moses brings his signature sharp wit and intellectual rigor to this timely exploration of campus politics, family dynamics, and the fraught terrain of contemporary social discourse. Only at Theater Wit.

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RECOMMENDED! Heady and PassionateChicago Reader
Jordan Sheppell is simply magnificentCTR
Enthralling and Compelling, Emotionally EngagingBuzz News
Essential work for contemporary audiencesBroadway World
Compelling! The seeds laid in the first act burst into burning bushes in the secondChicago Reader
Impressive. Fervid and PassionateCTR
Articulate and BRILLIANTBuzz News
Intense and Intellectually Sharp!Playlist HQ
Very funny, despite the subject matter.Chicago Reader
Evan Oser is remarkable. Mr. Ghaeini dazzles!CTR
Elijah Arman Ghaeini runs away with this scene, engendering from me empathy and even catharsis. When have I heard this expressed? Never before.Buzz News
Each individual performance is outstanding, presenting complicated dialogue with passion and convictionCBN
A Play of Ideas, but not a dusty oneChicago Reader
Impressive and absolutely down to earthCTR
Jordan Lane Shappell in a sterling performanceBuzz News
Sotakoun and Culberston deliver grounded, compelling performancesBroadway World
Explodes with rhetoric and recriminationChicago Reader
Drop Dead Gorgeous DesignCTR

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