Time Stands Still is a play written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Margulies is a riveting, deeply human drama set in a Brooklyn apartment, where photojournalist Sarah and her partner James, a foreign correspondent, attempt to heal and recalibrate after returning from the front lines of war. As they settle back into domestic life, their ideals, ambitions, and love for one another are quietly and powerfully tested. Margulies crafts a
nuanced story about bearing witness to global suffering and the personal cost of stepping away.
With sharp dialogue and emotional precision, Time Stands Still invites us to confront the tension
between comfort and conscience, intimacy and independence, and what we owe to the world
versus what we owe to ourselves.

“Set within the high‑stakes worlds of journalism and humanitarian work, this production exposes
how ambition can fuel purpose while fracturing relationships and ethical boundaries along the way.
As characters press forward, the play asks who catches the fallout of that ambition - and what the
human capacity for resilience truly costs those left in its wake.”
Sheldon Mba, Director

Cheyla Clawson, Director of the School of Performing Arts, Wichita State University
316-978-3368
Cheyla.clawson@wichita.edu