Tracey Scott Wilson's Buzzer at the Public Theater

The off-Broadway non-profit Public Theater has announced that Tracey Scott Wilson's dark comedy Buzzer, directed by Anne Kauffman, has been added to its 2014-2015 season. It is expected to have its New York premiere in Spring 2015.

The play will replace the previously announced The Total Bent, by Heidi Rodewald and Stew. Due to the musical's director Joanna Settle being diagnosed with breast cancer and to allow time for her recovery, the show has been postponed until the Public's 2015-2016 season.

Buzzer is a new play about "love, fear and the high costs of choosing who we make a home with, and where - Jackson left his tough Brooklyn neighborhood by winning a scholarship to Exeter, where he met Don, a play-hard rich boy who became his unlikely best friend. Now a Harvard-educated lawyer, Jackson's bought a place in the newly gentrifying area he grew up in. But Jackson's white girlfriend, Suzy, isn't so sure she belongs in a community 'on the verge.' When Don comes to crash with his old buddy and stay clean, his stories of the neighborhood's dangerous past collide with the growing disconnect between Jackson and Suzy, and the treacherous sexual and racial tensions waiting just beyond the door and demanding to be let in."

Dates, along with cast and creative team details will be announced in the near future.

- by Tom Millward