NYTW announces new season

New York Theatre Workshop have announced that the theatre's 2010-2011 season will include: Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, starring Elizabeth Marvel and directed by Ivo Van Hove, Peter and the Starcatchers, a new play by Rick Elice, directed by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, based upon the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, and Three Pianos, written, arranged, and performed by Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy, and Dave Malloy. A fourth production will 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 Little Foxes
by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Ivo Van Hove
Cast: Elizabeth Marvel, with further cast to be announced.
Venue: New York Theatre Workshop
Date: Sep - Oct 2010.

Director Ivo van Hove returns to NYTW to take on The Little Foxes, one of Lillian Hellman's most well-known plays, starring his frequent collaborator Elizabeth Marvel. A startlingly original play (also known from the Hollywood film starring Bette Davis), The Little Foxes is a study of greed, dishonesty, and one generation's unstoppable drive to ruthlessly exploit the resources of a previous generation.

This is the sixth collaboration between NYTW and Flemish director Ivo van Hove—past collaborations have included Eugene O'Neill's 'More Stately Mansions,' Tennessee Williams's 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler' and Molière's 'The Misanthrope.'

Peter and the Starcatchers By Rick Elice
Director: Roger Rees and Alex Timbers
Cast: tba Venue: New York Theatre Workshop
Dates: Feb - Mar 2011

Rick Elice, co-writer of the 'Jersey Boys' and 'The Addams Family,' along with actor/director/author Roger Rees, probably best known for his Tony Award-winning performance in 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby,' and OBIE Award-winning director Alex Timbers, founder and artistic director of Les Freres Corbusier and director of the highly-acclaimed Public Theater production of 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,' have created a new play based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers. In it a company of twelve actors plays some 50 characters—all on a journey to answer the century-old question: How did Peter become The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up?

Three Pianos
by Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy, and Dave Malloy
Director: Rachel Chavkin
Cast: tba Venue: New York Theatre Workshop
Dates: tba (2011)

Three Pianos — music-theater event that played a sold-out run at the Ontological Theater in March —is a theatrical work of Franz Schubert's Winterreise song cycle. Three Pianos is an imaginative evening of chaos that explores Schubert's music, life, and times. Written, arranged, and performed by Rick Burkhardt (Nonsense Company), Alec Duffy (Hoi Polloi) and Dave Malloy (Banana Bag & Bodice), the play is set in a rustic cabin on a blustery winter night where three friends—each manning a piano—lead the audience through their respective passions for Winterreise, Schubert's famous song cycle on winter heartbreak - performing the songs, grappling with fundamental questions about the nature of music, slipping into the skins of Schubert and friends during one of their famous "Schubertiads," and drinking way too much.