Roundabout: more info about 2010/11 season

Roundabout Theatre Company have announced two additional productions as part of the 2010-2011 theatrical season: Cherry Jones starring in a Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, directed by Doug Hughes and Olympia Dukakis starring in an Off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, directed by Michael Wilson.

Performance dates are also confirmed for previously announced productions for the 2010-2011 season including the Broadway production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by & starring Brian Bedford; Off-Broadway production of Julia Cho's The Language Archive, directed by Mark Brokaw and Kimberly Rosenstock's Tigers Be Still, directed by Sam Gold which has been announced for Roundabout Underground.

Full details for each production will be forthcoming.

Broadway - American Airlines Theatre
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Playwright: George Bernard Shaw
Director: Doug Hughes
Cast: Cherry Jones, full cast to be announced.
Dates: PReviews from 3 Sep 2010

Tony Award winner Cherry Jones (Doubt, The Heiress) returns to Broadway in George Bernard Shaw's comedy Mrs. Warren's Profession, which tells the story of Kitty Warren, a mother who makes a terrible sacrifice for her daughter Vivie's independence. The clash of these two strong-willed but culturally constrained women is the spark that ignites the ironic wit of one of Shaw's greatest plays.

Off-Broadway - Lucille Lortel Theatre
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Playwright: Tennessee Williams
Director: Michael Wilson
Cast: Olympia Dukakis, full cast to be announced.
Dates: Previews from 7 Jan 2011

As part of the 2011 Tennessee Williams' centennial, Roundabout presents The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, a haunting drama takes place at the picturesque Italian mountaintop home of Flora Goforth (Olympia Dukakis). Flora is a wealthy American widow who has detached from the world in order to write her memoirs. When a handsome and mysterious young visitor arrives without warning to keep Flora company in her final hours, this dreamlike play transforms into a meditation on life and death.

Hartford Stage Artistic Director Michael Wilson completed a ten-year project on the work of Tennessee Williams, which culminated in a 2008 production of The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore starring Olympia Dukakis.

Roundabout Underground at the Black Box Theatre
Tigers Be Still
Playwright: Kimberly Rosenstock
Director: Sam Gold
Cast: Cast to be announced.
Dates: Previews begin 10 Sep 2010. Opens on 3 Oct 2010.

Tigers Be Still is a comedy that follows the story of Sherry Wickman, a young woman who expects the perfect career and life to fall into place immediately upon earning her masters degree in art therapy. Instead, Sherry finds herself unemployed, overwhelmed and back at home hiding out in her twin-sized childhood bed. But when Sherry gets hired as a substitute art teacher, things begin to brighten up. Now if only her mother would come downstairs, her sister would get off the couch, her very first therapy patient would do just one of his take-home assignments, her new boss would leave his gun at home, and someone would catch the tiger that escaped from the local zoo, everything would be just perfect.

Roundabout Underground is an initiative to showcase new plays that will either allow an experienced director to go back to his/her creative roots or give a debut production to an emerging writer or director.

Off-Broadway
The Language Archive
Playwright: Julia Cho
Director: Mark Brokaw
Cast: Cast to be announced.
Dates: Previews begin 10 Sep 2010. Opens on 3 Oct 2010.

The Language Archive is a quirky comedy that seems to prove love is the one language that can leave us all at a loss for words. George is a man consumed with preserving and documenting the dying languages of far-flung cultures. Closer to home, though, language is failing him. He doesn't know what to say to his wife, Mary, to keep her from leaving him, and he doesn't recognize the deep feelings that his lab assistant, Emma, has for him

Roundabout commissioned The Language Archive, which won the 2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize awarded to an outstanding new English-language play by a woman.

Broadway - American Airlines Theatre
The Importance of Being Ernest
Playwright: Oscar Wilde
Director: Brian Bedford
Cast: Brian Bedford (Lady Bracknell), full Cast to be announced.
Dates: Previews begin 20 Dec 2010. Opens on 13 Jan 2011.

The Importance of Being Ernest is a comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Dashing men-about-town John Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff pursue fair ladies Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. Matters are complicated by the imaginary characters invented by both men to cover their on-the-sly activities - not to mention the disapproval of Gwendolen's mother, the formidable Lady Bracknell (Brian Bedford).

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival produced a production of The Importance of Being Ernest in 2009 directed by and starring Brian Bedford.