Photo Flash: Wallace Shawn's The Fever in Previews

The New Group is currently presenting the first revival of Wallace Shawn's The Fever, playing January 9 – March 3 at The New Group at Theatre Row (The Acorn Theater / 410 West 42nd Street). The official opening is set for Wednesday, January 29 at 7:00 PM.

"An anonymous narrator wakes up in a war-torn country with a terrible fever, unable to reconcile the privilege he has enjoyed with his current surroundings.  Shawn's The Fever examines the links between the affluence many Americans take for granted and the horrors of poverty and suffering that haunt the lives of millions," state production notes on the show, which will be helmed by New Group artistic director Scott Elliott.

Last season, writer and performer Shawn wrote The Music Teacher with his brother, composer Allen Shawn for The New Group as well as a new translation of The Threepenny Opera for the Roundabout Theater Company (directed by Elliott).  His other plays include The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon and Marie and Bruce.  With André Gregory, he wrote the film My Dinner With André, and has also appeared in many films, including The Princess Bride.

Tickets for The Fever may be arranged through Ticket Central at www.ticketcentral.com or (212) 279-4200, or at the Theatre Row Box Office (12:00–8:00 PM daily).  Tickets are $51.25. For more information, visit www.thenewgroup.org.

Photos by Carol Rosegg

 
Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn