Levieva, Milioti Join THE RETRIBUTIONISTS, Chimo, Schreck Among CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION Casting For Playwrights Horizons New Season Works

Playwrights Horizons, under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, announces complete casting, as well as dates, for the first two productions of its upcoming 2009/2010 Season.

Presented at the theater company's home at 416 West 42nd Street, the previously-announced productions will feature the following casts:

Adam Driver (2009 Juilliard School graduate), Margarita Levieva (Impressionism, the films Adventureland and the upcoming Spread opposite Ashton Kutcher, "Kings"), Cristin Milioti (the recent Stunning at LCT3, Coram Boy, The Lieutenant of Inishmore) and Adam Rothenberg (Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at Second Stage, A Streetcar Named Desire at the Kennedy Center, the film Tennessee opposite Mariah Carey) will head the seven member cast of THE RETRIBUTIONISTS, the World Premiere of a new play by Daniel Goldfarb (Modern Orthodox, Adam Baum and the Jew Movie).

The cast will also feature Hamilton Clancy (Dog Logic at American Place Theater, the films Burn After Reading and American Gangster), Rebecca Henderson (Three Sisters at CSC) and Jefferson Award winner Lusia Strus (for Go Away, Go Away, plus Henry IV for the RSC and It Ain't No Fairy Tale with Steppenwolf). The first production of the Playwrights Horizons season, directed by Leigh Silverman (Coraline, Well, From Up Here), the drama will begin previews Friday, August 21 with an Opening Night set for Tuesday, September 15 at 7PM. The limited engagement will run through Sunday, September 27 at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater.

Tracee Chimo (Irena's Vow, 365 Days/365 Plays) and Obie Award winner Heidi Schreck (for Drum of the Waves at HERE, plus Amazons and Their Men at Clubbed Thumb) will complete The cast of CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION, the World Premiere of a new play by Annie Baker (Body Awareness at Atlantic Theater Company).

They join the previously-announced Obie Award winner Reed Birney (last season's The Savannah Disputation at Playwrights Horizons, Blasted, "Gossip Girl"), Tony Award nominee Peter Friedman (Ragtime, Playwrights Horizons' The Heidi Chronicles, 2009 Drama Desk nomination for Body Awareness) and Obie Award winner Deirdre O'Connell (Manic Flight Reaction at Playwrights Horizons, Drama Desk nomination for Love and Anger). Directed by Sam Gold (Jollyship the Whizbang at Ars Nova, Rag and Bone at Rattlestick, The Black Eyed at New York Theatre Workshop), the production will begin previews on Thursday, September 24 with an Opening Night set for Tuesday, October 13 at 7PM. The limited engagement will run through Sunday, November 1 at Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater.

Additional casting for the season's four remaining productions will be announced in the coming months.

Subscriptions to Playwrights Horizons' 2009/2010 season are now available in 6-show (four Mainstage productions and two productions in The Peter Jay Sharp Theater) or 4-show (four Mainstage productions) packages. Packages include "Silver Pass" (6-show with additional benefits, $335), "Anytime" (6-show $265, 4-show $200), "Matinees" (6-show $245, 4-show $180), "Previews and Sunday Nights" (6-show $230, 4-show $165), "Patron" (two 6-show packages with exclusive benefits, $1250), "FlexPass" (6 tickets $275, 4 tickets $205), "30&Under FlexPass" (6 tickets $120, 4 tickets $80) and "Student FlexPass" (6 tickets, $60, 4 tickets $40). I

n addition to discounts on all Mainstage season attractions, subscribers receive priority seating, ticket exchange privileges, parking and dining discounts, and exclusive mailings of Playwrights Horizons Bulletins.

Playwrights Horizons, under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, is a writer's theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American Playwrights, composers and lyricists, and to the production of their new work. In its 38 years, Playwrights Horizons has presented the work of more than 375 writers and has received numerous awards and honors, most recently being honored with a special 2008 Drama Desk Award for "ongoing support to generations of theater artists and undiminished commitment to producing new work." Notable productions include four Pulitzer Prize winners: Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife (2004 Tony Award, Best Play), Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles (1989 Tony Award, Best Play), Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George, as well as Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie's Grey Gardens (three 2007 Tony Awards), Craig Lucas's Prayer For My Enemy and Small Tragedy (2004 Obie Award, Best American Play), Adam Rapp's Kindness, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Assassins, Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone, Bruce Norris's The Pain and the Itch, Lynn Nottage's Fabulation (2005 Obie Award for Playwriting), Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero, David Greenspan's She Stoops to Comedy (2003 Obie Award), Kirsten Childs's The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (2000 Obie Award), Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey's James Joyce's The Dead, William Finn's March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, Christopher Durang's Betty's Summer Vacation and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Richard Nelson's Goodnight Children Everywhere and Franny's Way, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's Once on This Island, Jon Robin Baitz's The Substance of Fire, Scott McPherson's Marvin's Room, A.R. Gurney's Later Life, Adam Guettel and Tina Landau's Floyd Collins and Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley's Violet.
Playwrights Horizons' season productions are generously supported by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust.

Playwrights Horizons is supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate. In addition, Playwrights Horizons receives major support from Carnegie Corporation of New York, Charina Endowment Fund, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Shubert Foundation and Time Warner Inc.

Playwrights Horizons' 2009/2010 SEASON

 

THE RETRIBUTIONISTS

World Premiere of a new play by Daniel Goldfarb

Featuring Hamilton Clancy, Adam Driver, Rebecca Henderson, Margarita Levieva, Cristin Milioti, Adam Rothenberg & Lusia Strus

Directed by Leigh Silverman

Previews Friday, August 21, 2009; Opening Night Tuesday, September 15; through Sunday, September 27

Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street)

 

CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION

World Premiere of a new play by Annie Baker

Featuring Reed Birney, Tracee Chimo, Peter Friedman, Deirdre O'Connell & Heidi Schreck

Directed by Sam Gold

Previews Thursday, September 24, 2009; Opening Night Tuesday, October 13; through Sunday, November 1

Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 West 42nd Street)

 

THIS

World Premiere of a new play by Melissa James Gibson

Featuring Louis Cancelmi, Eisa Davis, Glenn Fitzgerald & Parker Posey

Directed by Daniel Aukin

Previews Friday, November 6, 2009; Opening Night Wednesday, December 2; through Sunday, December 13

Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street)

 

CLYBOURNE PARK

World Premiere of a new play by Bruce Norris

Directed by Pam Mackinnon

Previews Friday, January 29, 2010; Opening Night Sunday, February 21; through Sunday, March 7

Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street)

 

A COOL DIP IN THE BARREN SAHARAN CRICK

World Premiere of a new play by Kia Corthron

Directed by Chay Yew

A co-production with The Play Company and the Culture Project

Previews Thursday, March 4, 2010; Opening Night Sunday, March 28; through Sunday, April 11

Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 West 42nd Street)

 

THE BURNT PART BOYS

New York City premiere of a new musical

Music by Chris Miller, Lyrics by Nathan Tysen, Book by Mariana Elder

Directed by Erica Schmidt

A co-production with Vineyard Theatre

Performances May/June 2010

Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street)

 

Margarita Levieva Photo Credit: Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

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