Hawke, Tomei et al. Lead New Group in '10-'11

The New York Times has announced that Ethan Hawke, Daphne Rubin-Vega, and Natasha Lyonne will star in The New Group's Blood From A Stone, the first production of the theater company's 2010-2011 season. Performances begin on December 13, 2010 at the Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row.  The production will run through February 19, 2011.

The actor Tommy Nohilly, a former Marine, will have his debut as a playwright with his dark comedy, Blood From a Stone, about a troubled working-class family in New Britain, Conn. It will be directed by The New Group's artistic director, Scott Elliott, who is most recently oversaw the company's new musical, The Kid, at Theater Row.

Hawke, Lyonne and Thomas Guiry play the children of Becky Ann Baker and Gordon Clapp (roles played by Rosanne Barr and Philip Seymour Hoffman in a prior reading of the show).  Rubin-Vega plays their neighbor. 

Wallace Shawn's Marie and Bruce, starring Marisa Tomei and Frank Whaley, will follow Blood From A Stone for The New Group, playing the Acorn from March 3, 2011 through April 23, 2011. Marie and Bruce is an examination of marital strife that first ran at The Public Theater in 1980 and starred Bob Balaban and Louise Lasser. Scott Elliott will direct.

For the final production of the season, The New Group will present One Arm in collaboration with the Tectonic Theater Project, a play adapted and directed by Moises Kaufman based on a Tennessee Williams short story that also inspired an unproduced screenplay. The show will run from May 5, 2011 - June 25, 2011.  No casting has been announced.

For more information on The New Group, visit http://www.thenewgroup.org/.