Playwright Horizons announce 2010/2011 season

Playwrights Horizons has announced four additional productions for its 2010/2011 40th Anniversary Season. Three world premieres: A Small fire by Adam Bock, directed by Trip Cullman; Go Back to Where You Are by David Greenspan, directed by Leigh Silverman; Kin by Bathsheba Doran, directed by Sam Gold; and one American premiere: After the Revolution by Amy Herzog, directed by Carolyn Cantor.

The three World Premieres and one New York premiere join the previously-announced New York premiere of Edward Albee's Me, Myself & I.

The plays will be presented in the following season order:

New York Premiere
Me, Myself & I by Edward Albee
Directed by Emily Mann
Cast: Elizabeth Ashley and Brian Murray
Venue: Playwrights Horizons' Main Stage
Date: Will begin previews in Aug 2010.

Synopsis: When identical twin brothers are both named Otto, how's a mother supposed to keep them straight?

Me, Myself & I is the New York Premiere of a new play by three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and three-time Tony Award winner Edward Albee (A Delicate Balance; Seascape; Three Tall Women; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?) in his Playwrights Horizons debut.

Directed by Tony Award nominee and McCarter Theatre Artistic Director Emily Mann, the production was originally presented at McCarter Theatre in January 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 (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; The Little Foxes; The Crucible). Murray will reprise his performance from the McCarter production.

Edward Albee's (Playwright) many plays include Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tony Award); A Delicate Balance (Pulitzer Prize; 1996, Tony Award, Best Revival); Seascape (1974, Pulitzer Prize); Three Tall Women (1991, Pulitzer Prize); The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia? (2000, 2002 Tony Award). In 1996 Albee was awarded a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Emily Mann (Director) is celebrating her 20th season as Artistic Director of McCarter Theatre. Under Ms. Mann's leadership, McCarter was honored with the 1994 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater.

Elizabeth Ashley (Mother) previously appeared at Playwrights Horizons in 'When She Danced' in 1990. She most recently appeared on stage in the Broadway production of 'August: Osage County.' She won a Tony Award for 'Take Her, She's Mine' and was also Tony-nominated for 'Barefoot in the Park' and 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.'

Brian Murray (Doctor) previously appeared at Playwrights Horizons in 'The Butterfly Collection' in 2000 and 'Mud, River, Stone' in 1997. He most recently appeared on stage in the Broadway production of 'Mary Stuart.' He's been nominated for three Tony Awards for 'The Crucible,' 'The Little Foxes' and 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.'

New York Premiere
After the Revolution
By Amy Herzog
Directed by Carolyn Cantor
Venue: Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Dates: tba

Synopsis: "You can look back and say we did this wrong, or we did that wrong, but the point is it was for something." The brilliant, promising Emma Joseph proudly carries the torch of her family's Marxist tradition, devoting her life to the memory of her blacklisted grandfather. But when history reveals a shocking truth about the man himself, the entire family is forced to confront questions of honesty and allegiance they thought had been resolved.

Amy Herzog (Playwright) received the 2008 Helen Merrill Award for Aspiring Playwrights. She recently completed commissions for the Yale Repertory Theatre and the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and her play After the Revolution will be produced at Williamstown this summer 2010.

Carolyn Cantor (Director) directed Adam Rapp's 'Essential Self-Defense' at Playwrights Horizons. Other New York: Pumpgirl; In A Dark Dark House; Something You Did ; Orange Flower Water; Now That's What I Call A Storm; Living Room in Africa; Stone Cold Dead Serious; Life is a Dream; EVE-olution; and Kitty Kitty Kitty (SPF).

World Premiere
A Small Fire
by Adam Bock
Directed by Trip Cullman
Venue: Playwrights Horizons' Main Stage
Dates: tba

Synopsis: "Love isn't what you get from someone. It's what you give them."
When a tough-as-nails contractor finds her senses disappearing one at a time, the impact on the lives around her is nothing less than seismic.

Adam Bock's (Playwright) 'The Drunken City' was produced at Playwrights Horizons in 2008. His play 'The Receptionist' received its World Premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club in the fall of 2007 to a sold-out extended run.

Trip Cullman (Director) previously directed Adam Bock's 'The Drunken City' and Sarah Schulman's 'Manic Flight Reaction' at Playwrights Horizons.

World Premiere
Kin
By Rinne Groff
Directed by Sam Gold
Venue: Playwrights Horizons' Main Stage
Dates: tba

Synopsis: "It's awful, isn't it? Getting to know someone."
Anna, a Texan Ivy League poetry scholar, and Sean, an Irish personal trainer, hardly seem destined for one another. But as their web of disparate family and friends crosses great distances - both psychologically and geographically - an unlikely new family is forged.

Bathsheba Doran's (Playwright) plays include 'Living Room in Africa' (Off-Broadway), 'Nest' (commissioned and produced by Signature Theater DC), 'Until Morning' (BBC Radio 4) and adaptations of Dickens' 'Great Expectations,' 'The Blind' and 'Peer Gynt.' Her play 'Parents' Evening' will receive its world premiere at The Flea Theater in April 2010, directed by Jim Simpson.

Sam Gold (Director) most recently directed the critically-acclaimed production of 'Circle Mirror Transformation' at Playwrights Horizons. He directed Nick Jones's 'Jollyship the Whiz-bang,' which played a sold-out run at Ars Nova in 2008.

World Premiere
Go Back to Where You Came
By David Greenspan
Directed by Leigh Silverman
Cast: David Greenspan
Venue: Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Dates: tba

Synopsis: "Error not evil, correction not catastrophe."
A forgotten chorus boy (David Greenspan) from the theater of Ancient Greece, stuck in a lonely purgatory these past 2000 years, is sent back to earth on a mission from God. He now finds himself among a vacationing family in the Hamptons, caught off-guard by his re-discovered ability to feel love.

David Greenspan's (Playwright/Performer) work at Playwrights Horizons includes acting in and directing his play 'She Stoops to Comedy,' acting in Kathleen Tolan's 'The Wax' and directing Ms. Tolan's 'Kate's Diary.' Other playwriting credits include 'Principia,' 'Jack,' 'The Home Show Pieces' and '2 Samuel 11, Etc.' (HOME), 'Dead Mother, or Shirley Not All in Vain' (The Public), 'The Argument' and 'Old Comedy' (Target Margin) and 'The Myopia - an epic burlesque of tragic proportion'(The Foundry).

Leigh Silverman (Director). Broadway: Lisa Kron's 'Well.' West End: 'Wit' (Vaudeville Theatre), Recent New York (World Premieres): 'From Up Here' (Manhattan Theatre Club); 'Coraline' (MCC/True Love); 'Creature' (New Georges/P73); 'The Retributionists' (Playwrights Horizons); 'Yellow Face '(Center Theater Group/The Public Theater); 'Beebo Brinker Chronicles' (Hourglass Group/ 37 Arts).