Second Stage Theatre announces two premieres

Second Stage Theatre has announced the two premieres which will be presented as part of the company's eleventh annual Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series this summer: Erica Lipez's The Tutors, directed by Thomas Kail, and the musical comedy Murder For Two, by Joe Kinosia and Kellen Blair. Both plays will be presented at Second Stage Theatre's uptown home, the McGinn/Cazale Theatre.

The Tutors.
World premiere
Written by Erica Lipez
Directed by Thomas Kail
Cast to be announced
22 May - 17 Jun 2013

Joe and Toby, along with the many other residents of New York City who work a job in order to do something else, tutor high school students, while Heidi anonymously helps write college admissions' essays online. Together, they run a friendship-finding website from their apartment, except that their work with students starts to invade their lives and, in Heidi's case, her subconsciousa collides with real emotion.

Murder For Two
New York premiere
Music by Joe Kinosian
Lyrics by Kellen Blair
Book by Joe Kinosia and Kellen Blair
Director to be announced
Cast to be announced
12 Jul - 11 Aug 2012

A unique take on the murder mystery in which one actor plays the detective, one actor plays all the suspects and they both play the piano. Great American novelist Arthur Whitney has been shot at his surprise birthday party. Officer Marcus, who longs to shed his shoddy reputation and finally become a detective, is thrown into a zany drawing room where the list of suspects reads like a who's who of crazy, from a wife who seems more concerned about who stole the ice cream than who murdered her husband to a twelve-member boys choir that is nine members short.