Photo Flash: LCT3 Presents WHEN I COME TO DIE

LCT3's production of WHEN I COME TO DIE, a new play by Nathan Louis Jackson, directed by Thomas Kail, opens on Thursday, February 10 at 6:45 pm at The Duke on 42nd Street, a NEW 42ND STREET® project, (229 W. 42 Street). LCT3 is Lincoln Center Theater's programming initiative devoted to producing the work of new artists and developing new audiences. WHEN I COME TO DIE is the second of three LCT3 productions during its 2010-2011 season.

WHEN I COME TO DIE features Michael Balderrama, Chris Chalk, Neal Huff, David PatRick Kelly, and Amanda Mason Warren, and will have sets by Robin Vest, costumes by Emily Rebholz, lighting by Betsy Adams and sound by Jill BC Du Boff.

WHEN I COME TO DIE tells the tale of Damon Robinson, a death-row inmate (played by Chris Chalk), who struggles to find faith and hope and understand why his life has been spared after he survives a lethal injection.

Nathan Louis Jackson returns to LCT where he made his New York playwriting debut last season with his play Broke-ology, also directed by Thomas Kail. A writer for the television series Southland and the upcoming Shameless, he has participated in The Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive, William Inge 24 Hour Play Festival and Ebony Theater's "The Word" (monthly poetry slam). In addition to the LCT production of Broke-ology, Thomas Kail directed the play's world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He received a Tony nomination for his direction of the musical In The Heights and directed the City Center Encores! production of The Wiz. He most recently directed the Broadway production of Lombardi, a new play by Eric Simonson.

Citing the need to develop strong relationships with new artists and to build new audiences, Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) created LCT3 to offer these artists fully staged productions. LCT is currently building a new theater, rehearsal space and office complex on the roof of the Vivian Beaumont Theater. The 131-seat theater, to be named the Claire Tow Theater, is scheduled to open in early 2012 and will be the home of LCT3. Paige Evans is Artistic Director/LCT3.

Later this season LCT3 will produce the world premiere of 4000 Miles, a new play by Amy Herzog, directed by Daniel Aukin, beginning performances Monday, June 6, opening Monday, June 20 and running through Saturday, July 2 at The Duke on 42nd Street.

Lincoln Center Theater is currently presenting Jon Robin Baitz' Other Desert Cities, directed by Joe Mantello, now playing in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. This spring, LCT will present, with the National Theatre of Great Britain in association with Bob Boyett, the National Theatre's critically acclaimed production of War Horse, based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford with Handspring Puppet Company, directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, beginning performances Tuesday, March 15 in the Vivian Beaumont Theater and the new musical A Minister's Wife, adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Candida, by Austin Pendleton, with music by Joshua Schmidt, lyrics by Jan Tranen and conceived and directed by Michael Halberstam, beginning previews Thursday, April 7 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.