Foote, Holtzman, Etc. Set for Next Primary Stages Season

Primary Stages' 23rd season will include the New York premiere of works by Horton Foote, Willy Holtzman and Michael Hollinger, with a fourth production to be announced.

The company's 2007-2008 season will kick off with Dividing the Estate, a new play by Foote (The Trip to Bountiful, The Young Man from Atlanta).  The show, according to Primary Stages notes, is a "13-character human comedy about a family that must confront its past as it prepares for its future with foxy cunning, fascination and hypocritical virtue." 

Something You Did, by Holzman (Sabina, Bovver Boys), concerns "a notorious sixties radical who has served nearly 30 years in prison for her part in the accidental killing of an African-American police officer during an explosive war protest. Now she is eligible for parole in a post 9/11 world where bombing is terrorism and dissent is treason."

Hollinger's (An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf) new play Opus is about  "a world-renowned string quartet that struggles to prepare for their highest-profile performance when the violist, and founder of the quartet, mysteriously disappears."

Primary Stages' latest production, the New York premiere of Christopher Durang and Peter Melnick's musical Adrift in Macao, will open on February 13th at 59E59 Theaters and run through March 4th.  Athol Fugard's Exits and Entrances will follow.

Production dates for the 2007-2008 season will be announced.

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Photo - Horton Foote