Yale Rep To Present GOOD GOODS

Yale Repertory Theatre (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) announces the third world premiere production of its 2011-2012 season: GOOD GOODS by Christina Anderson, selected by American Theatre magazine as an up-and-coming artist "whose work will be transforming America's stages for decades to come." Acclaimed director Tina Landau, an award-winning ensemble member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company who recently staged Superior Donuts on Broadway, makes her Yale Rep debut with the production, which will run February 3-25, 2012 at Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street). Opening Night is Thursday, February 9.

Amidst the cluttered shelves of a family-owned general store in a small Black town that doesn't appear on any map, four lost souls reunite. Partnerships dissolve, alliances shift, and romances ignite as a tragic accident unleashes the town's mysterious history. Blurring the line between body and spirit, GOOD GOODS is an otherworldly love story of the (dis)possessed.

Christina Anderson (Playwright) Plays include: Drip, Hollow Roots, Blacktop Sky, Inked Baby, and Man in Love. Her work has been produced by or developed with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, Crowded Fire, American Conservatory Theater, About Face, The Public Theater, Penumbra Theatre, and other theatres all over the country. Awards and honors include the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize (Yale School of Drama), Schwarzman Legacy Scholarship awarded by Paula Vogel, Susan Smith Blackburn nomination, Lorraine Hansberry Award (American College Theater Festival), Van Lier Playwriting Fellowship (New Dramatists), Wasserstein Prize nomination (Dramatists Guild), Lucille Lortel Fellowship (Brown University), Core Writer (Playwrights' Center). American Theatre magazine selecTed Anderson as one of fifteen up-and-coming artists "whose work will be transforming America's stages for decades to come." Born and raised in Kansas City, KS, she obtained her B.A. from Brown University and her M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama. Through the National New Play Network, Anderson is currently a playwright-in-residence with Magic Theater in San Francisco, CA. www.christinaranderson.com.

Tina Landau (Director) is a writer and director and an ensemble member at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where her directing credits include Hot L Baltimore, The Brother/Sister Plays, Superior Donuts, The Tempest, The Time of Your Life (also at Seattle Rep, American Conservatory Theater), The Diary of Anne Frank, The Cherry Orchard, and Chuck Mee's Berlin Circle and Time to Burn. New York credits include Tarell Alvin McCraney's Wig Out! (Vineyard Theatre) and In the Red and Brown Water (The Public Theater), Mee's Iphigenia 2.0 (Signature Theatre Company), and the Broadway productions of Superior Donuts and Bells Are Ringing (revival). Tina's original writing work includes the upcoming musical Beauty with composer Regina Spektor and lyricist Michael Korie, Floyd Collins with Adam Guettel (Playwrights Horizons, Prince Theatre, The Old Globe, Goodman Theatre), Dream True with Ricky Ian Gordon (Vineyard Theatre), and her plays Space (The Public, Mark Taper Forum, Steppenwolf) and Beauty (La Jolla Playhouse). She is a USA Fellow and is the author, with Anne Bogart, of The Viewpoints Book.

YALE REP'S 2011-2012 SEASON ALSO INCLUDES:

THREE SISTERS
By Anton Chekhov
A New Version by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Les Waters
A co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre

September 16-October 8, 2011
Opening Night: September 22
University Theatre (222 York Street)

Discover the humor and heartbreak of one of the world's greatest plays, revealed through the lyricism of two leading voices in Contemporary Theatre: two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl and director Les Waters, whose acclaimed collaborations include Eurydice at Yale Rep and the Tony Award-nominated In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) on Broadway.

Transplanted from their beloved Moscow to a provincial Russian town, three sisters-school teacher Olga, unhappily married Masha, idealistic Irina-yearn for the city of their childhood, where they imagine their lives will be transformed and fulfilled. Three Sisters is the portrait of a family grappling with the bittersweet distance between reality and dreams.

World Premiere
BELLEVILLE
By Amy Herzog
Directed by Anne Kauffman

October 21-November 12, 2011
Opening Night: October 27
Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street)

Amy Herzog, author of After the Revolution-heralded by The New York Times as "engrossing and incisive" and one of the Ten Best New Plays of 2010-makes her Yale Rep debut with Belleville. The world premiere will be directed by OBIE Award winner Anne Kauffman, who recently staged We Have Always Lived in the Castle at Yale Rep.

Young Americans Zack and Abby have the perfect ex-pat life in Paris: a funky bohemian apartment in up-and-coming Belleville; a stable marriage; and Zack's noble mission to fight pediatric AIDS. But when Abby finds Zack at home one afternoon when he's supposed to be at work, the questions and answers that follow shake the foundation of their seemingly beautiful life.

A DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF
By Molière
Adapted by Christopher Bayes and Steven Epp
Directed by Christopher Bayes
A co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre

November 26-December 17, 2011
Opening Night: December 2
Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street)

PLEASE NOTE NEW FIRST PERFORMANCE AND OPENING NIGHT DATES, WHICH REPLACE ALL PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS.

"Playing doctor" takes on a whole new meaning as a marital squabble escalates into comic pandemonium. The spiritEd Martine exacts revenge on her scoundrel of a husband, Sganarelle, by convincing the town that he's the best doctor around and that he can cure any ailment. But the trickster turns the tables on his wife-and everyone else-with his own definition of "in sickness and in health."

Bursting with slapstick physical comedy, naughty innuendo, and irreverent hijinks, A Doctor in Spite of Himself marks the return to Yale Rep of Christopher Bayes and Steven Epp, whose The Servant of Two Masters had audiences and critics alike in stitches-including The New York Times, which rejoiced, "Now that's theatre!"

THE WINTER'S TALE
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Liz Diamond

March 16-April 7, 2012
Opening Night: March 22
University Theatre (222 York Street)

Suspicious that his wife Hermione has been unfaithful, King Leontes of Sicilia (John Douglas Thompson) imprisons the queen, orders the death of her suspected lover, and banishes his own newborn daughter. But callous hearts are redeemed-and broken ones mended-when the abandoned orphan falls in love with a Bohemian prince. The Winter's Tale leaps from darkest tragedy to lighthearted romance and a truly magical conclusion.

OBIE Award-winning Resident Director Liz Diamond, whose recent productions at Yale Rep include the acclaimed American premiere of Happy Now? by Lucinda Coxon, delves deep into a trunk of old-fashioned stagecraft to bring to life the Bard's surprising tale of blinding jealousy and forgiveness.

Please note: The Winter's Tale is Yale Rep's 2011-2012 Will Power! production. The run includes three 10:30AM performances available only to middle and high school student groups. For information on Will Power! performances, please contact Ruth M. Feldman at (203) 432-8425 or rm.feldman@yale.edu.

World Premiere
THE REALISTIC JONESES
By Will Eno
Directed by Sam Gold

April 20-May 12, 2012
Opening Night: April 26
Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street)

Meet Bob and Jennifer, and their new neighbors John and Pony, two suburban couples who have more in common than their identical homes and the same last name on their mailboxes.

Two electrifying artists team up at Yale Rep for the world premiere of The Realistic Joneses. Dubbed "a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation" by The New York Times, playwright Will Eno burst onto the scene in 2005-picking up a Pulitzer Prize nomination along the way-for his play Thom Pain (based on nothing). His recent Middletown was hailed as "totally engrossing" (Associated Press) and "utterly spellbinding!" (Time Out New York). Director Sam Gold's recent New York premieres of Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens, and Tigers Be Still have secured his place as one of the most insightful and sought-after directors of his generation.

ABOUT Yale Repertory Theatre

Yale Repertory Theatre is dedicated to the production of new plays and bold interpretations of classics and has produced well over 100 premieres-including two Pulitzer Prize winners and four other nominated finalists-by emerging and established playwrights. Eleven Yale Rep productions have advanced to Broadway, garnering more than 40 Tony Award nominations and eight Tony Awards. Yale Rep is also the recipient of the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Established in 2008, the Yale Center for New Theatre is an integrated, artist-driven initiative that devotes major resources to the commissioning, development, and production of new plays and musicals at Yale Repertory Theatre and across the country. Professional assignments at Yale Repertory Theatre are integral components of the program at Yale School of Drama, the nation's leading graduate theatre training conservatory.

2011-2012 SUBSCRIPTION AND TICKET INFORMATION

Yale Repertory Theatre offers a variety of subscription packages for audiences to enjoy the entire season, starting at $30 per ticket for the general public, and $10 for students. Subscriptions are available online at www.yalerep.org, by phone (203) 432-1234, and in person at the Yale Rep Box Office (1120 Chapel Street) during regular business hours (Monday through Friday 10AM-5PM, Saturday 12-5PM, and until 8PM on all performance evenings).

Group Sales are available by calling (203) 432-1572.

Individual tickets for the entire season will go on sale on August 29.

www.yalerep.org

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