Vineyard Announces 2009-10 Season, New Works From Domingo, Rapp, Kander & Ebb

The Vineyard Theatre has announced its 2009-2010 season. The lineup includes new works from Passing Strange's Colman Domingo, Adam Rapp, Kander & Ebb and more.

Vineyard Theatre is a non-profit theatre company dedicated to new work, bold programming and the support of artists. One of America's preeminent centers for the creation of new plays and musicals, Vineyard Theatre has consistently premiered provocative, groundbreaking works by both new and established writers. From the upcoming Broadway production of our hit musical [title of show] to our current Broadway success (and Tony Award-winner) Avenue Q, to two Pulitzer Prize-winning dramas - Paula Vogel's How I Learned To Drive and Edward Albee's Three Tall Women - to such notable projects as Nicky Silver's Pterodactyls, Becky Mode's Fully Committed, Craig Lucas' The Dying Gaul, Christopher Shinn's Where Do We Live, Cornelius Eady's Brutal Imagination, Gina Gionfriddo's After Ashley, the Laura Nyro musical Eli's Comin', and this season's acclaimed productions of Julia Cho's The Piano Teacher and Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy's The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island - we strive to produce new work that challenges both our audiences and artists. It is our goal to bring a spirit of adventure and risk to the art of making theatre. We're proud to be the recipient of special OBIE, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel awards for Sustained Excellence.

For tickets and additional information, call 212-353-0303 or visit www.vineyardtheatre.org.

A BOY AND HIS SOUL
September 9-October 18, Opens September 24.
By Colman Domingo
Directed by Tony Kelly

Colman Domingo's (PASSING STRANGE) moving and hilarious new solo play explores the experiences of a young man and his memorable family in 1970s and 80s Philadelphia, and the iconic and surprising connections to soul music that bridge generations. Hailed by The San Francisco Chronicle as "sweet, comic, genuinely moving, and edgy. It's impressive and irresistible!"

THE METAL CHILDREN (World Premiere)
February 3, 2010-March 14, 2010, Opens February 21, 2010
Written and Directed by Adam Rapp

Adam Rapp's unforgettable and timely drama about a New York writer's explosive encounter with a small American town, when he arrives there to defend one of his young adult novels which had been banned by the local school board. Rapp is the acclaimed author of such works as Pulitzer Prize fi nalist RED LIGHT WINTER, NOCTURNE, and BLACKBIRD.

THE BURNT PART BOYS
February-March, 2010
A co-production with Playwrights Horizons
Book by Mariana Elder, Music by Chris Miller, Lyrics by Nathan Tysen
Directed by Erica Schmidt

A gripping new musical about a group of teenagers coming of age in West Virginia coal country in 1962, and their life-transforming odyssey. Featuring a vibrant and haunting bluegrass and pop inspired score.

UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR LAB PRODUCTION
THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Spring, 2010
Book by David Thompson, Music and Lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb
Directed and Choreographed by Susan Stroman

A new musical by the legendary team of John Kander and Fred Ebb (CABARET, CHICAGO), this stirring new piece explores the famous "Scottsboro Case", in which a group of innocent African American teenagers were unjustly accused of a heinous crime in the 1930s. The show has been in development at The Vineyard and reunites us with the gifted artists of our revival of FLORA THE RED MENACE: John Kander, librettist David Thompson, and Tony Award-winning director/choreographer Susan Stroman (THE PRODUCERS).

Vineyard Theatre Lab Productions are developmental productions which are closed to the press, giving artists and members a rare opportunity to participate in the birth of an exciting new work.

IN DEVELOPMENT
THE TYPOGRAPHER'S DREAM

Written by Adam Bock
Directed by Anne Kauffman

Adam Bock's (THE RECEPTIONIST, THE THUGS) gem of a play follows three lonely, intertwined souls navigating the existential boundaries of their jobs, selves, and one another under the direction of Anne Kauffman (Vineyard Theatre's GOD'S EAR, THE THUGS).

+A BONUS SHOW:
ALL Vineyard Theatre MEMBERS GET A SPECIAL $25 TICKET OFFER TO THE St. Ann's Warehouse PRESENTATION OF:

DRUID'S
THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM
AT St. Ann's Warehouse
(American Premiere)

Written and Directed by Enda Walsh

Enda Walsh's "most intoxicating and original piece of writing." (Charles Isherwood, The New York Times) is a companion piece to THE WALWORTH FARCE, which made its American premiere at St. Ann's Warehouse in April 2008. One of Ireland's freshest new voices, Walsh, "that most explosively brilliant of modern Irish stage poets" (The Scotsman), unleashes the power of storytelling and everyday mythologizing within claustrophobic worlds and shared calamitous moments from the long-gone past.

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