Miami New Drama at Colony Theatre Presents the American Premiere of TERROR

As part of its new permanent residency and management role at Colony Theatre on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, Miami New Drama officially begins its 2017 season with the American premiere of Terror. The play will be directed by two-time Tony Award-winning Director Gregory Mosher, who is also the former Artistic Director of Lincoln Center in New York City. Under the Artistic Direction of Co-Founder Michel Hausmann, Miami New Drama brings the American adaptation and translation of this German play stateside. The original German version has been translated not only in script, but also to be consistent with American law. Previews for the American premiere of Terror begin January 26, 2017 and the show runs January 28 through February 19, 2017.

"It is a humbling honor for us to be working with such a legendary director," says Hausmann of Mosher. "He has had such an outstanding impact on the American theater scene and we are thrilled to have him here in Miami. The play is unique in that it has groundbreaking audience participation. They say theater is different every night; the fact this show's verdict (and ending) is up to the audience gives that saying a new reality."

This internationally acclaimed drama casts the audience as jurors, while Colony Theatre's stage transforms into a courtroom. The storyline follows a pilot facing trial after she has shot down a hijacked commercial flight headed for a crowded stadium. Her fate is in the audience's hands. To further the show's interactive quality and to track the theatrical trial's verdict, audiences can check statistics of votes on http://terror.theater. The statistics show the distribution of audience votes of "guilty" and "not guilty" as the play unfolds.

"I'm thrilled to be joining Michel's Miami theater venture," says Mosher. "Michel was one of my most outstanding Columbia students, and I'm delighted that I now get to call him a colleague. The only reason to do a play, no matter when it was written, is that it's about our lives now. Ferdinand von Schirach's Terror could not be more immediate, not just because the events of the play could, God forbid, happen at any moment, but because the moral questions it asks the audience to consider are both mind-bending and eternal."

Gregory Mosher is the director and/or producer of over 200 plays at the Lincoln Center and Goodman Theatres (both of which he led), on Broadway, at the Royal National Theatre, and in the West End. Colleagues have included playwrights Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, David Mamet, Richard Nelson, Spalding Gray, David Rabe, and Edward Albee, and countless leading actors and directors. Notable premiere productions include Six Degrees of Separation, John Leguizamo's Freak, David Rabe's Hurlyburly, Richard Nelson and Sean Davey's James Joyce's The Dead, the South African township musical Sarafina, and first productions of over twenty plays by Mr. Mamet, including American Buffalo, Speed-the-Plow, Edmond, and Glengarry Glen Ross. Recent work on Broadway includes A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller and That Championship Season by Jason Miller. His new version of Sophocles' Antigone, played in Kenya and South Africa in the summer of 2015, and his production of Love Letters starting Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal played toured America last year.

Michel Hausmann, Artistic Director, Co-Founder of Miami New Dramais a Venezuelan-born theater director, producer and writer. Hausmann is the bookwriter and director of The Golem Of Havana, an original musical that premiered at LaMama in August of 2013. The musical received its world premiere at Barrington Stage Company in July of 2014 and had a critically acclaimed run at the Colony Theatre with Miami New Drama. With over 6,500 attendees and a 5 week extended run, The Golem of Havanais the highest growing theater show in Miami's recent history.

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