Me, Myself & I: NY Premiere of Albee play in Aug

Playwrights Horizons has announced that the New York premiere of Me, Myself & I, a new play by three-time Pulitzer Prize and three-time Tony Award winner Edward Albee (A Delicate Balance; Seascape; Three Tall Women; Who's Afraid of Virgina Wolf?; The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?) will open the theater company's 2010/2011 40th Anniversary Season. Albee will be making his Playwrights Horizons debut.

Directed by Tony Award nominee Emily Mann (Having Our Say), the production was originally presented at McCarter Theatre (New Jersey) in Jan 2008. The New York premiere will star Tony Award winner Elizabeth Ashley (Take Her, She's Mine) and three-time Tony Award nominee Brian Murray (The Crucible, The Little Foxes and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead). Murray will reprise his performance from the McCarter production.

Mann previously worked with Playwrights Horizons directing 'Miss Witherspoon' (2005). Both Ashley and Murray are also returning to the theater company, where she appeared in 'When She Danced' (1990) and he appeared in 'The Butterfly Collection' (2000) and 'Mud, River, Stone' (1997).

Me, Myself & I will begin performances in August 2010 at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater. Complete casting and details will be announced in the coming months.

"Next year is our 40th Anniversary," said Artistic Director Tim Sanford. "As a writers' theater, it feels unspeakably lucky and fitting to launch our season with this giddily entertaining and challenging play by arguably our pre-eminent living playwright."

Me, Myself & I: When identical twin brothers are both named Otto, how's a mother supposed to keep them straight? Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee returns with this dark, funny and moving play that takes sibling rivalry to existential heights.

Me, Myself & I had its World Premiere at McCarter Theatre, opening on 18 Jan 2008 and playing a limited engagement through 17 Feb 2008. Ben Brantley in The New York Times hailed the play as, "A laugh-out-loud Little Farce in which the meanings of everyday words split and multiply like amoebas on steroids."