Garry Hynes To Direct EQUIVOCATION For MTC's 2009/2010 Off-Bdwy Season

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce Tony Award winner Garry Hynes will direct the upcoming production of EQUIVOCATION which is a part of Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming 2009-2010 Off-Broadway season at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street).

Garry Hynes will direct MTC's upcoming production of Bill Cain's EQUIVOCATION. Hynes returns to MTC after directing the theatre's Tony-nominated production of Brian Friel's Translations. She made history by becoming the first woman to win a Tony for direction of a play for The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Her other directing credits include The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Lonseome West, and DruidSynge, the acclaimed production of the collected works of John Millington Synge mounted by the Druid Theatre, for which Hynes also serves as artistic director.

Subscriptions to MTC's 2009-2010 season are currently available by calling (212) 399-3050, Monday - Friday, noon - 10 PM, Saturday 2 PM - 6 PM with a major credit card. Subscriptions are also available online at www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com. Single tickets to EQUIVOCATION, THAT FACE, and NIGHTINGALE will go on sale starting Tuesday, September 8 at www.NYCityCenter.org or by calling Citytix® at (212) 581-1212. Other listings information will be released in the coming weeks.

EQUIVOCATION will begin previews at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 in preparation for a Tuesday, March 2, 2010 opening night.

Bill Cain's new play set in 1605 England begins when King James' right hand man commissions William Shakespeare to write a new play about the Gunpowder Plot, a recent failed attempt to blow up Parliament and the Monarchy. EQUIVOCATION is a bold new look at the greatest playwright ever in a drama whose contemporary parallels are unmistakable and whose laughter is abundant - a work of startling revelations and vibrant theatricality.

Cast and creative team for EQUIVOCATION will be announced in the coming weeks.

Single tickets for EQUIVOCATION will be available online starting Tuesday, September 8 at www.NYCityCenter.org or by calling Citytix® at (212) 581-1212. Other listings information will be released in the coming weeks.

Garry Hynes (Director) is artistic director of Druid Theatre, Galway, for which she has directed many productions, including Long Day's Journey Into Night, My Brilliant Divorce and DruidSynge, The Complete Plays of J.M. Synge (also in Dublin, Edinburgh and New York). On Broadway, she directed Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane for which she received a Tony Award, the first ever given to a woman director. She has directed at many other theaters including The Abbey and Gate theaters in Dublin, The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court, London, and Second Stage, Signature, and Manhattan Theatre Club in New York. She is the recipient of honorary doctorate degrees from the National University of Ireland and Trinity College, Dublin, for her services to Irish theater. Her other productions include Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock (with Michael Gambon) and The Plough and the Stars (with Brendan Gleeson). More recently in New York she directed the highly acclaimed production of McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan at the Atlantic Theatre, Juno for Encores! at City Center and Brian Friel's Translations for Manhattan Theatre Club.

Manhattan Theatre Club's complete 2009-2010 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, Bill Cain's EQUIVOCATION, and Polly Stenham's THAT FACE.

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'.

Last season, MTC's Broadway stage was renamed the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). The landmarked theatre has been the institution's home on Broadway since 2003 and was rehabilitated by MTC following a two-year, $35 million capital campaign. In addition, MTC operates an Off-Broadway home at New York City Center (131 West 55th Street), where it has been in residence since 1984.