Eclipsed (2016, Lupita Nyong'o)

Danai Gurira’s powerful, historically urgent masterpiece 'Eclipsed' arrived at the John Golden Theatre in 2016, transferring directly from a historic, sold-out run at the Public Theater and capturing six major Tony nominations. Set inside a gritty, bullet-strewn compound during the brutal second Liberian civil war in 2003, the claustrophobic dramatic thriller tracks five captive women who forge an unbreakable sisterhood, a shared sanctuary of wit, and survival strategies while being held as "wives" by a rebel commander, collapsing into crisis when a new girl arrives. Directed with precise tension by Liesl Tommy, the milestone production starred Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o.