NYTW announces new season

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) have announced that the theatre's 2011-2012 season will include: The Select—The Sun Also Rises, based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, created by Elevator Repair Service, directed by John Collins; Food and Fadwa, written by Lameece Issaq, directed by Shana Gold; An Iliad, adapted from The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles, written by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, directed by Lisa Peterson; and a fourth production to be announced in the coming weeks.

The plays will be presented in the following season order:
Casting announcements and specific dates for each production will be forthcoming.

The Select—The Sun Also Rises
created by Elevator Repair Service, based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway
Directed by John Collins
Cast: tba.
Venue: New York Theatre Workshop
Date: tba.

The 2011-2012 Season begins with Elevator Repair Service's final chapter in their trilogy of classic American literature. The Select—The Sun Also Rises presents a fresh take on Ernest Hemingway's tale of young ex-patriots living in Europe after World War I as journalist Jake Barnes, his former lover Lady Brett Ashley, and the writer Robert Cohn cope with post-war realities and enter the "age of anxiety."

Last fall Elevator Repair Service (ERS) received critical acclaim for their production of 'Gatz,' based on F. Scott Fitzgeralds's 'The Great Gatsby,'?which played at the Public Theaer, and for their interpretation of 'The Sound and the Fury' when it debuted at NYTW in 2008.

Food and Fadwa
by Lameece Issaq, conceived and developed with Jacob Kader
Director: Shana Gold
Cast: tba Venue: New York Theatre Workshop
Dates: tba

Meet Fadwa Faranesh, an unmarried, 30-something, Palestinian woman known for her delectable cooking and deep-seated sense of duty to her siblings and aging father. Despite the constraints of a curfew imposed on the community of East Bethlehem in 2002, our kitchen maven insists on continuing the preparations for the wedding of her younger sister.

Written by Lameece Issaq, directed by Shana Gold, and conceived and developed with Jacob Kader, this new play melds the fight a Palestinian family wages to hold onto its traditional culture with its need to celebrate love, joy and hope. NYTW teams up with company-in-residence Noor Theatre.

An Iliad
by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, adapted from The Iliad by Homer. Translated by Robert Fagles
Director: Lisa Peterson
Cast: Denis O'Hare and Stephen Spinella Venue: New York Theatre Workshop
Dates: tba

Creators Lisa Peterson's and Denis O'Hare's An Iliad is based on Homer's epic poem. An Iliad spins the tale of gods and goddesses, undying love, and endless battles, and asks, 'Has anything really changed since the Trojan War?'. Tony Award-winning actors Denis O'Hare (Assassins, Take Me Out) and Stephen Spinella (Angels in America) alternate in the production.