Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) have announced that the New York premiere of Lynn Redgrave's NIGHTINGALE and the New York premiere of Polly Stenham's THAT FACE will be a part of Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming 2009-2010 Off-Broadway season at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street).
NIGHTINGALE and THAT FACE join the previously announced New York premiere of Donald Margulies' TIME STANDS STILL at City Center and a Broadway season at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) which will include a new production of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's THE ROYAL FAMILY and the Broadway premiere of Donald Margulies' COLLECTED STORIES.
In the coming weeks, MTC will announce one more production for the Friedman Theatre. 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.
MTC AT NEW YORK City Center - STAGE I
Nightingale
Written by and starring Lynn Redgrave
Directed by Joseph Hardy
Previews begin: Thursday, February 11, 2010
Opening Night: Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Tony Award and Academy Award nominee Lynn Redgrave has written and is acting in a new play inspired by her need to discover memories of her grandmother - a woman she barely knew. Redgrave, the author of Shakespeare For My Father, creates the events that likely transformed Mildred from an eager, naïve girl into an embittered woman and explores Mildred's troubled relationships with her husband, her children and her life.
NIGHTINGALE is a play about a promising woman stymied by society and all but erased by history, a touching personal tribute and a resounding song for all those people whose voices we've lost, or never known. Directing this New York premiere is Tony Award winner Joseph Hardy (Child's Play).
MTC AT NEW YORK City Center - STAGE I
That Face
Written by POLLY STENHAM
Previews begin: Thursday, April 29, 2010
Opening Night: Tuesday, May 18, 2010
From Britain's fastest-rising young playwright comes this shattering and darkly funny new drama about a family at the breaking point. Mia and Henry have long been dealing with their mother's addictions, but after a prank goes wrong at Mia's boarding school, their situation goes from comically bad to utterly ridiculous. When their estranged father arrives to sort things out, they must face the reality that their well-to-do family may have combusted beyond repair. Following critically acclaimed sell-out runs at The Royal Court Theatre and in London's West End, this award-winning first work by Polly Stenham makes its much-anticipated New York debut next spring.
Casting, director, and creative team for THAT FACE will be announced at a later date.
Below is previously announced information on MTC's 2009-2010 season.
MTC AT NEW YORK City Center - STAGE I
Time Stands Still
Written by Donald Margulies
Directed by Daniel Sullivan
Previews begin: Thursday, October 15, 2009
Opening Night: Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Are we supposed to deny ourselves ordinary happiness because there's misery in the world? This is one of many questions Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies poses in his intelligent and timely new play. James and Sarah, 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 Tony winning director Daniel Sullivan (Sight Unseen on Broadway, Brooklyn Boy, Dinner with Friends).
