A new production of off-Broadway hit comedy The White Chip is coming to London this summer 2025.
The White Chip by Sean Daniels will be directed by Matt Ryan, and play Southwark Playhouse Borough from 9 July to 16 August 2025.
The show is produced by Danielle Tarento (Titanic The Musical) and Tony Award-winning Broadway star Annaleigh Ashford, and about living with addiction and coming alive through recovery.
Sean Daniels’ autobiographical play centres on Steven McAlister, who despite spending more time drunk than sober, has managed to graduate from college, create an extremely successful theatre group, get married, and thrive in a dream job at one of the most prestigious regional theatres in the United States.
Sure, it’s gratifying to go to an AA meeting where they reward you with a white chip token just for showing up, but does he really have a problem? Even with an ailing father, a marriage on the rocks, and his professional life careening out of control, Steven has a carefully constructed balancing act that keeps it all together – until it all falls apart.
Casting for the show is to be announced.
Joining Matt Ryan in the creative team are designer Lee Newby, lighting designer Jamie Platt, and sound designer Max Pappenheim, with further creatives to be announced.
The White Chip premiered in New York at 59E59 Theaters, and was recently produced at The Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater at MCC Theatre by Tony Award-winning actress Annaleigh Ashford, alongside Hank Azaria, Jason Biggs, and fellow Tony® Award winner John Larroquette.
Writer Sean Daniels said in a statement: “It’s an honour to get to work with Danielle Tarento and Annaleigh Ashford to bring The White Chip to London. After the response we had in New York – the mix of laughter-filled shows and someone saying ‘I’m ready to get help’ after every performance – we knew we wanted to keep this going as long as we could. When you write a comedy about recovery you hope it finds the right people, people who get your dark sense of humour – from actors to producers to audience – and how lucky am I that it has.”
The White Chip is playing at Southwark Playhouse Borough from 9 July to 16 August 2025.
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