Sigourney Weaver is to star in Crazy Mary and Leigh Silverman will direct Blue Door

Playwrights Horizons have announced that three-time Academy Award nominee Sigourney Weaver will headline the World Premiere production of Crazy Mary, a new play by A.R. Gurney.

The production will reunite the playwright and actress, as well as director Jim Simpson, who all collaborated on Mr. Gurney�s 'Mrs. Farnsworth' at The Flea in 2004.

Sigourney Weaver last appeared on Broadway in 'Sex and Longing', her other Broadway credit is 'Hurlyburly.' Off Broadway credits include 'Gemini' at Playwrights Horizons; 'Mrs. Farnsworth', 'The Mercy Seat' and 'The Guys'. Her film credits include 'Aliens', 'Gorillas in the Mist' and 'Working Girl'.

The theater company also announced that Leigh Silverman will direct the New York Premiere of Blue Door, a new play by Tanya Barfield.

Leigh Silverman directed Lisa Kron's comedy 'Well' which closed on Broadway earlier this year. His off-Broadway direction credits include 'Finder's Fee', 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea', 'Oedipus at Palm Springs' and 'Jump/Cut'.

Further information about casting and dates for Playwright Horizons 2006 - 2007 Season will be announced later.

Playwright Horizons 2006 - 2007 season :

• The World Premiere of Crazy Mary
  Playwright: A.R. Gurney
  Director: Jim Simpson
  Cast: Sigourney Weaver, further casting tba
  Synopsis: In an attempt to account for the family inheritance, the scion of a wealthy Buffalo, NY clan and her willful, college-aged son visit their long lost cousin Mary. The catch: Mary is living in an asylum, and has barely spoken in years, forcing mother and son to employ radical ends to get through.
  Venue: Playwright Horizons' Main Stage
  Dates: tba
  
• The New York Premiere of Frank's Home
  Playwright: Richard Nelson
  Director: Robert Falls
  Cast: tba
  Synopsis: It is summer, 1923, and architect Frank Lloyd Wright has recently left Chicago for California, determined to embrace Hollywood's youthful zest and mend broken relationships with his adult children. Having recently completed his latest 'wonder of the world' � Tokyo's Imperial Hotel � Wright is poised to settle down and embrace his new home. But his splintered family still holds deep-seated resentments.
  Produced in association with The Goodman Theatre, where it will premiere this Fall.
  Venue: Playwright Horizons' Main Stage
  Dates: tba
  
• The New York premiere of Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky
  Book and Lyrics: David Cale
  Music: Jonathan Kreisberg and David Cale
  Director: Joe Calarco
  Cast: tba
  Synopsis: Burnt out, living out of his Studebaker, former country-western star Floyd Duffner�s best days seem to be behind him. But when a 20 year-old feral beauty with an electrifying voice enters the picture, an unlikely friendship and musical partnership begins to blossom.
  Venue: Playwright Horizons' Main Stage
  Dates: tba
  
• The New York Premiere of The Pain and the Itch
  Playwright: Bruce Norris
  Director: Anna D. Shapiro
  Cast: tba
  Synopsis: With a young daughter in serious need of attention and a ravenous creature possibly prowling the upstairs bedrooms, what begins as an average Thanksgiving for one privileged family unravels into an expos� of disastrous choices and less-than-altruistic motives.
  Venue: Playwright Horizons' Main Stage
  Dates: tba
  
• The New York premiere of Blue Door
  Playwright: Tanya Barfield
  Director: Leigh Silverman
  Cast: tba
  Synopsis: When a prominent African-American mathematician in crisis begins to lose his grip on reality, the ghosts of ancestors past shatter the silence of an insomnia-filled night.
  Venue: Playwright Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater
  Dates: tba
  
• The World Premiere of Essential Self-Defence
  Playwright: Adam Rapp
  Director: Carolyn Cantor
  Cast: tba
  Synopsis: A disgruntled misfit takes a job as an attack dummy in a women�s self-defense class and finds himself mysteriously drawn to the repressed bookworm who�s beating on him. But all�s not well on the mean Midwestern streets of Bloggs: with local children vanishing at an alarming rate, our hero, his lady friend and a motley assortment of poets, butchers and punk librarians prepare to battle the darkness on the edge of town.
  Venue: Playwright Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater
  Dates: tba