Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce that Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Laura Linney ("John Adams," The Savages) will play the lead role in Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming New York premiere of TIME STANDS STILL by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Donald Margulies. This will mark Linney's third play by Margulies at Manhattan Theatre Club.
She made her off-Broadway debut at MTC during the 1991-1992 season in John Patrick Shanley's Beggars in the House of Plenty. That same season she created the role of "Grete" in MTC's premiere of Margulies' Sight Unseen. Twelve years later, Lynne Meadow asked her to play the lead role of "Patricia" in the MTC Broadway Revival of Sight Unseen, directed by Daniel Sullivan, for which she received a Tony nomination. Linney has a special relationship with Donald Margulies, MTC and Daniel Sullivan.
The limited engagement, to be directed by Tony winner Daniel Sullivan (Accent on Youth, Sight Unseen on Broadway, Brooklyn Boy, Dinner with Friends) will begin previews at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 in preparation for a Thursday, January 28, 2010 opening night. The production had previously been announced to play MTC's New York City Center - Stage I.
Are we supposed to deny ourselves ordinary happiness because there's misery in the world? This is one of many questions Donald Margulies poses in his intelligent and timely new play. James and Sarah (Linney), a journalist and a photographer, have been together for nine years and share a passion for documenting the realities of war. But when injuries force them to return home to New York, the adventurous couple confronts the prospect of a more conventional life. TIME STANDS STILL is a blazingly important new work about responsibility - to ourselves, to our loved ones, to our community, and to our world.
This new production of TIME STANDS STILL marks the fourth collaboration for Margulies and director Daniel Sullivan.
Additional casting and the creative team for TIME STANDS STILL will be announced in the coming weeks.
Manhattan Theatre Club's complete Broadway season at the Samuel J. Friedman will feature a new production of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's THE ROYAL FAMILY, the New York premiere of Donald Margulies' TIME STANDS STILL, and the Broadway premiere of Margulies' COLLECTED STORIES. The Off-Broadway season will include Lynn Redgrave's NIGHTINGALE, and Polly Stenham's THAT FACE.
NIGHTINGALE will now being previews Thursday, October 15, 2009 for a Tuesday, November 3, 2009 opening. In the coming weeks, MTC will announce one more production for New York City Center - Stage I. That announcement will complete MTC's upcoming season which will include three productions at the Friedman Theatre and three productions at New York City Center.
Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, MTC has become one of the country's most prominent and prestigious theatre companies. MTC productions have earned a total of 16 Tony Awards and six Pulitzer Prizes, an accomplishment unparalleled by a New York theatrical institution. Renowned MTC productions include Ruined; The American Plan; Top Girls; Come Back, Little Sheba; Blackbird; Translations; Shining City; Rabbit Hole; Doubt; Proof; The Tale of the Allergist's Wife; Love! Valour! Compassion! ; A Small Family Business; Sylvia; Putting It Together; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Crimes of the Heart; and Ain't Misbehavin'.
