Ruhl's 'IN THE NEXT ROOM' To Play The Lyceum In Fall 2009

Variety reports that Lincoln Center Theater's Broadway production of Sarah Ruhl's IN THE NEXT ROOM, or the Vibrator Play" has booked the Lyceum Theater for its fall run.

"Next Room" will begin previews Oct. 22 ahead of a Nov. 19 opening. Cast for the show, to be helmed by Les Waters, has not been announced, although Laura Benanti has been mentioned as a possibility reveals Variety.

Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) will present the Broadway of IN THE NEXT ROOM or The Vibrator Play, by Sarah Ruhl, and directed by Les Waters. 

IN THE NEXT ROOM or The Vibrator Play, which will be presented on Broadway while LCT's Tony Award winning production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific continues its run at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, will begin previews on Thursday, October 22 and open on Thursday, November 19th, 2009. IN THE NEXT ROOM or The Vibrator Play is a comedy about marriage, intimacy and electricity which had its world premiere last month at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Sarah Ruhl returns to Lincoln Center Theater where she made her New York debut with her play The Clean House. Her other plays include Dead Man's Cell Phone, Demeter in the City, Eurydice, Late: a cowboy song, Melancholy Play, Orlando and Passion Play: a cycle. Her work has also been produced in New York at Playwrights Horizons and the Second Stage and nationally at many theaters including the Goodman, Yale Rep and the Woolly Mammoth Theaters. Les Waters, an Obie Award winning director, is the associate artistic director of Berkeley Rep. His New York credits include productions at BAM. the Manhattan Theatre Club, CSC, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Second Stage Theater and Signature Theatre Company.

In addition to these this production, LCT3, Lincoln Center Theater's new programming initiative devoted to the work of emerging playwrights, directors and designers, will present a fall production, to be announced, at The Duke on 42nd Street (249 West 42 Street).

This season, in addition to the continuing run of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center Theater is also presenting a new production of August Wilson's prize-winning early work Joe Turner's Come and Gone, directed by Bartlett Sher, opening Thursday, April 16 on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre, Happiness a new musical with book by John Weidman, music by Scott Frankel, lyrics by Michael Korie and direction and choreography by Susan Stroman, opening Monday, March 30 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater and the return of John Lithgow in his critically acclaimed one man show John Lithgow: Stories By Heart on Sunday and Monday nights in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, April 12 - May 25. LCT3 will present its second production Stunning, a new play by David Adjmi, directed by Anne Kauffman, June 1 - 27 at The Duke on 42nd Street.

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