Milk Like Sugar, Featuring Tony Winner Tonya Pinkins, Gets One-Week Extension at Playwrights Horizons

The New York premiere of Kirsten Greenidge’s Milk Like Sugar will get a one-week extension at Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater. The play, which is a joint production of Playwrights Horizons, Women’s Project and La Jolla Playhouse, began performances on October 13, opened on November 1 and will now run through November 27, directed by Rebecca Taichman. The additional week represents the only extension possible.

The ensemble cast includes Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins, Cherise Boothe, Angela Lewis, Nikiya Mathis, LeRoy McClain, J. Mallory-McCree, Adrienne C. Moore.

Milk Like Sugar finds savage humor and gritty poetry in one inner-city girl’s struggle to carve out a life beyond the only one she knows. With potential for more but nowhere to put it, 16-year-old Annie (Lewis) has a choice: honor the pregnancy pact she made with her friends, or find the path to a brighter future.