The White Chip
by Sean Daniels
Directed by Sheryl Kaller
MCC Theatre Space
February 14, 2024
Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5.

Addiction plays are very popular these days.  Broadway is very busy with the musical Days of Wine and Roses (which I saw and didn’t like for all its preachiness and datedness) and Off-Broadway has The White Chip.  As The White Chip started with its minimal set in a sort of AA meeting space with 3 actors taking on a multitude of roles, I thought it was going to be a corny comedic take on the whole drinking thing – but I was happily surprised.  The White Chip was really a rather remarkable ride taking an alcoholic from those early days of Mormon Church challenges and teen drinking to full blown, toxic drunk, to recovering alcoholic.