CreateTheater New Works Festival 2022 – Best Play

“Hard-hitting” – Jed Ryan, Lavender After Dark

“A powerful play” – Yvonne Tutetelli, Outer-Stage

“Charged with electricity, incisive and provocative.” – Ed Levy, CreateTheater

“But what makes the play work so well is that the main focus is not on the case itself, but on the journalistic integrity of those reporting on it, and whether or not they can recognize when and if their objectivity is compromised by any points of view they may harbor.” – Michael Dale, Broadway World

CreateTheater New Works Festival 2022 – Best Play “Hard-hitting” – Jed Ryan, Lavender After Dark “A powerful play” – Yvonne Tutetelli, Outer-Stage “Charged with electricity, incisive and provocative.” – Ed Levy, CreateTheater “But what makes the play work so well is that the main focus is not on the case itself, but on the journalistic integrity of those reporting on it, and whether or not they can recognize when and if their objectivity is compromised by any points of view they may harbor.” – Michael Dale, Broadway World

WHEN THE VALUE OF TRUTH IS CALLED INTO QUESTION, WHO PAYS THE PRICE?

"It doesn't matter who you trust, what you know, or what you believe. You can only write what you can prove."

Inspired by true events, Retraction follows journalist Wendy Cohen Denison as she publishes a bombshell exposé about a shocking crime at an esteemed university. Carolina Atlantic student Lacey’s firsthand account lives at the center of the article, and the entire nation is rocked by her story. But when journalists and college students alike begin to dive deeper, they find inconsistencies that throw everything they thought they knew about the case into question. This gripping legal drama examines the professional and personal truths we owe one another when nothing seems certain.