Breaking: New Musicals by David Yazbek (Directed by Hal Prince!), Billie Joe Armstrong & More Coming to Atlantic Theatre Company in 2015-16

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director, Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) has just announced five productions of its 30th Anniversary Season.

The 2015-2016 season will include a revival of Cloud Nine by multiple Obie Award winner Caryl Churchill (A Number), directed by Obie Award winner James Macdonald (Love and Information); the world premiere musical The Band's Visit, featuring a book by Drama Desk Award nominee Itamar Moses (Completeness), music and lyrics by Tony Award® nominee David Yazbek (The Full Monty) and direction by multiple Tony Award® winner Harold Prince; the world premiere play Skeleton Crew by acclaimed young playwright Dominique Morisseau (Detroit '67); the New York premiere of the musical These Paper Bullets!, by Emmy Award® nominee Rolin Jones ("Friday Night Lights," "Boardwalk Empire") with songs by Grammy Award® winner Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong, staged by Jackson Gay and the New York premiere play The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois, written and directed by Pulitzer Prize® finalist Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter).

One additional production will be announced.

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ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY 2015-2016 SEASON

Linda Gross Theater
Revival
CLOUD NINE
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by James Macdonald
Fall 2015

Set in colonial Africa and 1979 London, Caryl Churchill's landmark play is about power, politics, family, Queen Victoria and sex. This timeless and bitingly funny modern classic has not been seen in a major New York production since 1981, when it ran for over two years.

Linda Gross Theater
New York Premiere Musical
of the Yale Repertory Theatre production of
THESE PAPER BULLETS!
By Rolin Jones
Songs by Billie Joe Armstrong
Directed by Jackson Gay
November-December 2015
Co-Production with Geffen Playhouse

Meet the Quartos: Ben, Claude, Balth, and Pedro. Their fans worship them. Scotland Yard fears them. And their former drummer will stop at nothing to destroy them. Can these fab four from Liverpool find true love in London and cut an album in seven nights? These Paper Bullets! is a modish rip-off of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing with a serious backbeat.

Adapted by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Emmy Award® nominated writer Rolin Jones ("Friday Night Lights," "Boardwalk Empire," "Weeds") and featuring new songs by Grammy Award winning Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong, who wrote the Tony Award® winning musical American Idiot, These Paper Bullets! is directed by Jackson Gay, who staged Jones' The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow in 2005 and Jones' The Jammer in 2013 both at Atlantic. These Paper Bullets! was commissioned by Yale Repertory Theatre where this production premiered in 2014.

Atlantic Stage 2
World Premiere Play
SKELETON CREW
By Dominique Morisseau
January 2016

In this final installment of Dominique Morisseau's Detroit trilogy, a makeshift family of workers at the last exporting auto plant in the city navigate the possibility of foreclosure. Power dynamics shift, and they are pushed to the limits of survival. When the line between blue collar and white collar gets blurred, how far over the lines are they willing to step?

Linda Gross Theater
World Premiere Musical
THE BAND'S VISIT
Book by Itamar Moses
Music and Lyrics by David Yazbek
Directed by Harold Prince
Based on the screenplay by Eran Kolirin
Spring 2016

An Egyptian Police Band arrives in Israel to play a concert. After a mix up at the border, they are sent to a remote village in the middle of the desert. With no bus until morning and no hotel in sight, these unlikely travelers are taken in by the locals. Under the spell of the desert sky, their lives become intertwined in the most unexpected ways. A new musical based on the critically acclaimed screenplay which received 36 major international awards.

Adapted by Drama Desk Award nominee Itamar Moses (Completeness) and featuring an original score by three time Tony Award® nominee David Yazbek (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty), The Band's Visit, a world premiere musical, is directed by 21-time Tony Award® winner Hal Prince.

Atlantic Stage 2
New York Premiere Play
THE PURPLE LIGHTS OF JOPPA ILLINOIS
Written and Directed by Adam Rapp
May-June 2016

Ellis Shook lives alone in a small duplex apartment in Paducah, Kentucky. He works nights buffing floors, keeps to himself - and always remembers to take his medication. But when two teenage girls arrive at his doorstep one autumn afternoon, their visit will force him to confront a tragic past while also offering him a glimpse at hope. The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinoiswas commissioned by South Coast Repertory where it premiered in 2014.