As Bees in Honey Drown

Douglas Carter Beane’s razor-sharp Off-Broadway comedy 'As Bees in Honey Drown' arrived at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in 1997 under the auspices of the Drama Dept., running for over 300 performances and winning the Outer Critics Circle Award. The brilliantly cynical satire targets the shallow machinery of modern celebrity, media hype, and artistic pretension, following Evan Wyler, an earnest young novelist who is instantly swept into a glamorous, high-flying world of luxury when he is targeted by Alexa Vere de Vere, an extravagant, name-dropping international con artist who recruits him to write her screen biography. Directed by Mark Brokaw, the acclaimed production famously starred J. Smith-Cameron in a career-defining turn as Alexa.