The New Group has pushed back the first preview of the U.S. premiere of Kevin Elyot’s Mouth to Mouth directed by Mark Brokaw, to October 22nd for technical reasons. Mouth to Mouth will open The New Group's season and run through December 27. This production features New Group artists David Cale, Lisa Emery and Elizabeth Jasicki. Mouth to Mouth will have its Official Opening on Thursday, November 6 @ 7:00 PM at The New Group @ Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street).
Frank, a gay writer living with AIDS, attends a party at his friend Laura's house to celebrate the return of her teenage son from abroad. As the story shifts back and forth through time, it’s clear that Frank may have played an unscrupulous part in the unraveling of his best friend's family. Nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Play and a London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play, this West End hit is a haunting, twisting tale of undeclared passion and the fine line between intimacy and betrayal.
Mouth to Mouth enjoyed its world premiere at
The Royal Court Theatre in 2001.
Kevin Elyot’s play, My Night with Reg, earned him the 1994 London Critic Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright and earned an Olivier Award nomination for Best Comedy.
After beginning his career as a theater actor, playwright
Kevin Elyot wrote his first stage play, Coming Clean, which premiered at London’s
Bush Theatre and won the
Samuel Beckett Award. Elyot’s other plays include: Consent (1989), The Moonstone (1990), Artists And Admirers (1992), My Night With Reg, The Day I Stood Still (
National Theatre, 1998), Forty Winks (
Royal Court Theatre, 2004) and And Then There Were (Gielgud Theatre, 2005). His screenplays include Killing Time (BBC, 1990), which won the Writers’ Guild Award for Best TV Play or Film, The Moonstone (BBC, 1996), My Night With Reg (BBC, 1997) and No Night Is Too Long (BBC/Alliance Atlantis, 2002).
Director
Mark Brokaw helmed the Tony® nominated Broadway production of Cry-Baby. His additional Broadway credits include The Constant Wife and Reckless. With
The New Group, Brokaw directed
Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth (1996-97 season).
This production will feature
Christopher Abbott (Off-B’way: Good Boys and True),
David Cale (B’way: Three Penny Opera; Off-B’way: Two Thousand Years, My Night With Reg at
The New Group; Film: Pollock),
Lisa Emery (B’way: The Women, The Smell of the Kill; Off-B’way: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Abigail’s Party, What The Butler Saw at
The New Group),
Darren Goldstein (Off-B’way: Abigail’s Party, Terrorism at
The New Group; Guttenberg! The Musical, Bad Jazz),
Elizabeth Jasicki (Off-B’way: Abigail’s Party at
The New Group),
Andrew Polk (Off-B’way: The Accomplices at
The New Group – 2007 Drama Desk Nomination, Walmartopia; TV: “30 Rock,” “Law & Order”),
Richard Topol (B’way: Awake and Sing – Drama Desk Award, Julius Caesar; TV: “The Practice”) and includes Set Design by
Riccardo Hernandez (B’way: Caroline, or Change, Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk; Off-B’way: Two Gentlemen of Verona), Costume Design by
Michael Krass (B’way: The Constant Wife – Tony® Award nomination, Twelve Angry Men; Off-B’way: A Feminine Ending), Lighting Design by
Mark McCullough (B’way: Jesus Christ Superstar) and Sound Design by
David Van Tieghem (B’way: Doubt, Mauritius). This production will also include original music by
David Van Tieghem.
The New Group (
Scott Elliott, Artistic Director;
Geoff Rich, Executive Director): The 2008-2009 season continues this January as
The New Group presents Eugene O’Neill’s epic tragedy Mourning Becomes Electra. Directed by
Scott Elliot, the production will feature
John Cullum,
Lili Taylor, and
Jena Malone. The season concludes this spring with the world premiere Seth
Zvi Rosenfeld’s Handball. The company’s 2007-2008 season opened with the premiere of
Jonathan Marc Sherman’s Things We Want directed by
Ethan Hawke, followed by
Mike Leigh’s Two Thousand Years and concluded with
Ayub Khan-Din’s Rafta, Rafta…. The 2006-07 season featured
Jay Presson Allen’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie followed by
Wallace Shawn’s The Fever and
Bernard Weinraub’s The Accomplices.
The New Group is a recipient of the 2004 Tony® Award (Best Musical -
Avenue Q).
Mouth to Mouth will play at
The New Group @ Theatre Row (The Acorn Theatre / 410 West 42nd Street, between 9th & 10th Avenue) as follows: Monday @ 8:00 PM, Tuesday @ 7:00 PM, Wednesday through Saturday @ 8:00 PM and Saturday @ 2:00 PM (matinee). Tickets may be arranged through Ticket Central at www.ticketcentral.com or (212) 279-4200, or at the Theatre Row Box Office (12:00–8:00 PM daily). Tickets are $56.25. For more information, visit
www.thenewgroup.org.
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