The best laid plans: any effort to write meaningfully about being embedded with The 24 Hour Plays will have to wait. All I can manage to do is process some of the many photos I’ve taken – and share them with you even in advance of the performance.

Mind you, these are rehearsal photos, with actors wearing their own clothes, some temporary costumes and some outfits that will appear on stage this evening at 8. The lighting was in constant flux as spacing rehearsals took place regardless of whether the lights were on or off, swirling disco lights or a dedicated single instrument. So these aren’t reflective of what will be seen, but of works in progress, possibly never seen like this again.

For a post about the meet and greet, click here.

For a post with rehearsal photos from the other three plays, click here.

RULE OF THE RED NOSE by HANSOL JUNG

Aasif Mandvi

David Greenspan

Aasif Mandvi and Grace Gummer

Marin Ireland

Ukweli Roach

ASPIRATIONAL PANTS by DAVID LINDSAY ABAIRE

Rachel Dratch, Tracie Thoms, Alicia Witt and Jenna Ushkowitz

Rachel Dratch and Tracie Thoms

Jenna Ushkowitz

Alicia Witt

Rachel Dratch

Alicia Witt, Rachel Dratch, Tracie Thoms and Jenna Ushkowitz

WAKE UP by BESS WOHL

Michael Chernus (seated) and Paul Schneider

Joanna Christie and Michael Chernus

Shakina Nayfack

Paul Schneider and Herizen Guardiola

Paul Schneider

All photos © Howard Sherman