New York Theatre Workshop Announces The Start of their 2010-2011 Season

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo, have announced that Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, starring Elizabeth Marvel and directed by Ivo van Hove and a new musical by "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q composer/lyricist Robert Lopez will kick off the theatre's 2010-2011 season. The 2009-2010 season will conclude with Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers, written by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons, and directed by John Rubinstein, and Restoration, a new play written by and starring Claudia Shear and directed by Christopher Ashley.

Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers
Written by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons
Directed by John Rubinstein
A co-production with L.A. Theatre Works and Affinity Collaborative Theater
February 24 - March 28, 2010

It's 1971 and the nation is at war. The intractable conflict escalates in Vietnam while here at home the battle for public opinion rages. A federal court blocks The New York Times from publishing the top-secret history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham has a single day to decide whether to print these documents, which quickly became known as the Pentagon Papers. When the Nixon administration closes in and charges treason, the fight for a free press explodes. Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons's suspenseful Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers animates the frontline clash between the government's need for secrecy and the public's right to know. Featuring a cast of eleven representing the real life characters at the center of this historic event-from Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee to Post publisher Katharine Graham to President Richard Nixon-this true story about one of the great "stand up and cheer" moments in American journalism.

Restoration
Written by Claudia Shear
Directed by Christopher Ashley
Produced in association with La Jolla Playhouse
April 30 - June 13, 2010

Two-time Tony Award-nominee, playwright and actress Claudia Shear reunites with acclaimed director Christopher Ashley to create and star in her new play Restoration. Shear plays Giulia, a down-on-her-luck art restorer from Brooklyn who receives what could possibly be a career-reviving job of "refreshing" Michelangelo's David in time for its quincentennial celebration in Florence. Claudia Shear and Christopher Ashley first worked together on the hit NYTW production of Shear's OBIE Award-winning Blown Sideways Through Life. Shear triumphantly returned to NYTW with Dirty Blonde, a comic exploration of the life of Mae West, directed by James Lapine, for which she won a Theatre World Award, as well as Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations for Best Play and Best Actress.

A New Musical
By Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez
August - September 2010

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of "South Park," team up with Robert Lopez, the Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist of Avenue Q, on a new musical.

The Little Foxes
Written by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Ivo van Hove
September - October 2010

The notoriously provocative director Ivo van Hove returns to NYTW to take on The Little Foxes, one of Lillian Hellman's most well-known plays, starring his frequent collaborator Elizabeth Marvel. A startlingly original play (also known from the Hollywood film starring Bette Davis), The Little Foxes is a timely study of greed, dishonesty, and one generation's unstoppable drive to ruthlessly exploit the resources of a previous generation. This is the sixth collaboration between NYTW and Flemish director Ivo van Hove-past collaborations have included Eugene O'Neill's More Stately Mansions, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and Molière's The Misanthrope.

These four plays will be available for purchase as part of a four-play package priced at $195. For more information or to purchase a subscription, please call Ticket Central at 212.279.4200 or visit www.TicketCentral.com.

New York Theatre Workshop, now celebrating its 26th season, is a leading voice in the world of Off-Broadway and within the theatre community in New York and around the world. NYTW has emerged as a premiere incubator of important new theatre, honoring its mission to explore perspectives on our collective history and respond to the events and institutions that shape our lives. In addition, NYTW is known for its innovative adaptations of classic repertory. Each season, from its home in New York's East Village neighborhood, NYTW presents three to five new productions, over 80 readings, and numerous workshop productions, for over 45,000 audience members. Over the past 26 years, NYTW has developed and produced over 100 new, fully staged works, including Jonathan Larson's Rent, Tony Kushner's Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul, Doug Wright's Quills, Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde, Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Valhalla, and Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, Far Away, and A Number. The 2002 remounting of Martha Clarke's seminal work Vienna: Lusthaus and subsequent American tour was one of the longest-running productions in NYTW's history. NYTW supports artists in all stages of their careers by maintaining a series of workshop programs including work-in-progress readings, summer residencies, and minority artist fellowships. In 1991, NYTW received an OBIE Award for Sustained Achievement and in 2000 was designated to be part of the Leading National Theatres Program by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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