Thomas Kail-Helmed WHEN I COME TO DIE Begins Previews at LCT, 1/31

Previews begin Monday, January 31st at 8pm, for the LCT3 production of WHEN I COME TO DIE, a new play by Nathan Louis Jackson, directed by Thomas Kail. The second of LCT3's three productions during the 2010-2011 season. 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. Opening night is Thursday, February 10 at 6:45 pm at The Duke on 42nd Street, a NEW 42ND STREET® project, (229 W. 42 Street).

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.

All tickets to WHEN I COME TO DIE are $20 and are available at The Duke on 42nd Street Box Office, by visiting Dukeon42.org or by calling 646.223.3010. For additional information on LCT3 please visit www.lct3.org.

Founded in 1990, The New 42nd Street is an independent, nonprofit organization charged with long-term responsibility for seven historic theaters on 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. In addition to running The New Victory Theater, The New 42nd Street built and operates the New 42nd Street® Studios a ten-story building of rehearsal studios, offices and a 200-seat theater named The Duke on 42nd Street for national and international performing arts companies. Since its opening on June 21, 2000, the New 42nd Street Studios has been fully occupied by both nonprofit and commercial theater, dance and opera companies. With these institutions and the other properties under its guardianship, The New 42nd Street plays a pivotal role in fostering the continued revival of this famous street at the Crossroads of the World.

The Duke on 42nd Street is an intimate 200-seat black box theater built and operated by The New 42nd Street. Since opening in 2000, the theater has been available on a rental basis to international and domestic nonprofit organizations to present their work. Companies that have presented at The Duke on 42nd Street theater include: Theatre for a New Audience; Playwrights Horizons; Lincoln Center Great Performers; The NYC Tap Festival; and 92nd Street Y's Harkness Dance Project. In October 2008, Lincoln Center Theater launched "LCT3" at The Duke on 42nd Street. New 42nd Street presentations at The Duke on 42nd Street have included: Karole Armitage's Armitage Gone! Dance; Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Rose Rage; Naked Angels and Dan Klores' Armed and Naked in America; and Classical Theater of Harlem's production of Langston Hughes' Black Nativity. Notable New Victory presentations at The Duke on 42nd Street include Joan McLeod's The Shape of a Girl, Steppenwolf Theater Company's The Bluest Eye and the smash hit Once and For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen presented by The New Victory Theater in cooperation with The Under the Radar Festival. In January , The New Victory will present Nearly Lear, co-created by Susanna Hamnett and Edith Tankus with initial development in association with Kneehigh Theatre.