Manhattan Theatre Club 2016 – 2017 Season
Our Mother’s Brief Affair
A new play by Richard Greenberg
Directed by Lynne Meadow
Starring Linda Lavin
Kate Arrington, Greg Keller, John Procaccino
First Preview Dec 28, 2015
Opening Night Jan 20, 2016
Samuel J Friedman Theatre on Broadway
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Tony and two-time Golden Globe winner Linda Lavin (Collected Stories, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife) returns to MTC in Our Mother;s Brief Affair, a new play making its New York premiere. From the team behind The Assembled Parties Tony-winning writer Richard Greenberg (Three Days of Rain, Take Me Out) and award-winning MTC Artistic Director Lynne Meadow (The Commons of Pensacola, Wit) this innovative work challenges us to look at who our parents are when they’re not being our parents.
On the verge of death for the umpteenth time, Anna (Lavin) makes a shocking confession to her grown children: an affair from her past that just might have resonance beyond the family. But how much of what she says is true? While her children try to separate fact from fiction, Anna fights for a legacy she can be proud of. With razor-sharp wit and extraordinary insight, Our Mother’s Brief Affair considers the sweeping, surprising impact of indiscretions both large and small.
Prodigal Son
World Premiere Play
Written and Directed by John Patrick Shanley
With Annika Boras, Timothe Chalamet, Robert Sean Leonard, Chris McGarry, David Potters
First Preview Jan 19, 2016
Opening Night Feb 09, 2016
New York City Center Stage 1
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Prodigal Son is a passionate, explosive portrait of a young man on the verge of salvation or destruction, written and directed by John Patrick Shanley (of Tony, Academy Award, and Pulitzer Prize fame). A 17-year-old boy (Timothe Chalamet) from The Bronx finds himself suddenly in a private school in New Hampshire. He’s violent, gifted, alienated, on fire with a ferocious loneliness. Two faculty members (Tony Award winner Robert Sean Leonard and Chris McGarry) wrestle with the dilemma: Is the kid a star or a disaster?
The world premiere of Prodigal Son marks another exciting step forward in the collaboration between Manhattan Theatre Club and this visceral New York playwright (Doubt, Outside Mullingar).
The creative team for Prodigal Son will feature Santo Loquasto (scenic design), Jennifer von Mayrhauser (costume design), Natasha Katz (lighting design) and Fitz Patton (sound design).
Lead support for Prodigal Son has been provided by MTC’s Producing Fund Partner, Ned Lustbader. Additional support for Prodigal Son is provided by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation. Prodigal Son is a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award.
The Father
American Premiere of the New Play by Florian Zeller
Translation by Two-Time Tony Award Winner Christopher Hampton
Directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes
Starring Frank Langella
First Preview Mar 22, 2016
Opening Night Apr 14, 2016
Samuel J Friedman Theatre Broadway
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The Father offers a fascinating look inside the mind of Andre (Frank Langella), a retired dancer living with his adult daughter Anne and her husband. Or is he a retired engineer receiving a visit from Anne who has moved away with her boyfriend? Why do strangers keep turning up in his room? And where has he left his watch?
Lead support for The Father has been provided by MTC’s Producing Fund Partner, Andrew Martin-Weber.
Incognito
American Premiere by Nick Payne
Directed by Doug Hughes
Nick Payne, the acclaimed writer who brought you the sold-out Broadway sensation Constellations, returns to Manhattan Theatre Club with Incognito, an astonishing and original (The Telegraph) American premiere play.
A pathologist steals the brain of Albert Einstein; a neuropsychologist embarks on her first romance with another woman; a seizure patient forgets everything but how much he loves his girlfriend. Incognito braids these mysterious stories into one breathtaking whole that asks whether memory and identity are nothing but illusions. Directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes (Doubt, Outside Mullingar, The City of Conversation), Incognito takes us into the last uncharted realm the mind.
First Preview May 03, 2016
Opening Night May 24, 2016
New York City Center Stage 1
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The Ruins of Civilization
A World Premiere play by Penelope Skinner
Directed by Leah C. Gardiner
Cast
Orlagh Cassidy – Joy
Broadway: Present Laughter, God of Carnage. Off-Broadway: Bright Ideas (MCC), The Field(Drama Desk nomination), Aristocrats, Dancing at Lughnasa (Irish Rep), The Hundred We Are(Origin Theatre Company), When We Were Young and Unafraid (MTC, Cherry Jones). Regional: Shakespeare Theatre at The Folger, Hartford Stage. TV: “Law & Order,” “A Gifted Man,” “Unforgettable,” “Mildred Pierce,” “Veep,” “The Mysteries of Laura,” “Gotham,” “The Good Wife” and “Billions.” Eleven years recurring as Doris Wolfe on “Guiding Light.” Film: Definitely, Maybe; Motherhood; St. Vincent’s; The Sisterhood of Night; Beach House. B.F.A. SUNY at Purchase (Princess Grace Foundation Scholarship). Award-winning voice of numerous audiobooks, television and radio commercials.
Tim Daly – Silver
Theatre: Red; The Scene; The Exonerated; Six Degrees of Separation; The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial; Henry Flamethrowa; Coastal Disturbances (Theatre World Award); Oliver, Oliver; Buried Child. Television: “Madam Secretary,” “Private Practice,” “The Sopranos” (Emmy Award nomination), “The Fugitive” (SAG Award nomination), “Wings.” Film: Low Down (2014 Sundance Film Festival; associate producer), After Darkness, Bereft, Against the Ropes, Basic, The Object of My Affection, Made in Heaven, Just the Way You Are, Diner. Producer: Poliwood, Bereft, Edge of America (Humanitas Prize, Peabody Award, WGA Award, DGA Award), Execution of Justice. Web series: “The Daly Show.” President of The Creative Coalition, Board member InsideOUT Writers.
Rachael Holmes – Dolores
Rachel can be seen onscreen as Erica in “Mad Dogs” on Amazon. NY: Bright Half Life (world premiere, dir. Leigh Silverman, Women’s Project), Ruined (dir. Kate Whoriskey, MTC), Persephone’s Cowboy: A Musical (dir. Alex Timbers). Regional: War (world premiere, dir. Lileana Blain-Cruz, Yale Rep), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (dir. Jonathan Moscone, Alley Theatre), Good People (dir. Kate Whoriskey, Huntington Theatre), Ruined (dir. Charles Randolph-Wright, Arena Stage), The Book Club Play (dir. Molly Smith, Arena Stage), Richard II (dir. Michael Kahn, Shakespeare Theatre Company). TV: “Chasing Life,” “Mysteries of Laura,” “The Good Wife,” “Dirt,” and national commercials. M.F.A., NYU. rachael.biz
Roxanna Hope – Mara
Broadway: Frost/Nixon, Boeing-Boeing, After the Fall, The Women, The Country House, Our Mother’s Brief Affair. Off-Broadway: Ode to Joy, Horsedreams, Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven, 1001, Arabian Night, Princess Turandot. Regional: Hedda Gabler (Hartford Stage); Tartuffe, Indian Ink, Hecuba (American Conservatory Theater); Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Richard III, Julius Caesar, Pericles (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ); Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse and others. Film/TV: Puncture, “Blue Bloods,” “Unforgettable,” “The Good Wife,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: CI,” “All My Children” and others. M.F.A., American Conservatory Theater.
Sometime in the future, Dolores and Silver are living their married life within the constraints and norms of a new world order. In an act of what seems like pure generosity, Dolores secretly opens their home to a stranger in need; but will she come to regret it? Can her actions have an impact or is it just too late? A bold world premiere thriller, The Ruins of Civilization explores our need for free will and connection, even in a world on the brink of extinction. It’s the latest work from Penelope Skinner, the award winning author of The Village Bike.
First Preview May 04, 2016
Opening Night May 18, 2016
The Studio at Stage II Harold and Mimi Steinberg
New Play Series
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Vietgone
New York Premiere by Qui Nguyen
Directed by May Adrales
Cast & Creative TBA
A modern twist on the All-American love story, Qui Nguyen’s (She Kills Monsters) new playVietgone pulses with contemporary energy. It’s the classic story of boy meets girl except this boy and girl are refugees from the Vietnam War newly settled in a relocation camp inside Middle America. Borrowing elements from the world of up-to-the-minute popular culture to recreate the playwright’s own parents meeting, Vietgone ranges from hilarity to heart-wrenching drama. Nguyen and director May Adrales (Luce at LCT3) skip through time and around the globe to present a fresh theatrical take on a moving account of one real family’s history. Vietgone is produced in association with South Coast Repertory.
First Preview Oct 04, 2016
Opening Night Oct 25, 2016
New York City Center Stage I
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Sell/Buy/Date
World Premiere Written and Performed by Sarah Jones
Directed by Carolyn Cantor
Tony Award-winning writer, performer and activist Sarah Jones (Bridge & Tunnel) returns to the New York stage as a dazzling medley of characters in Sell/Buy/Date, an exuberant new play inspired by the real-life experiences of people affected by the commercial sex industry. Through her masterful, multicultural characterizations, Jones explores an array of diverse perspectives on a fascinating and incendiary subject, all while preserving the full humanity and humor of voices seldom heard in the theatre.
First Preview Sep 27, 2016
Opening Night Oct 18, 2016
The Studio at Stage II Harold and Mimi Steinberg
New Play Series
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Manhattan Theatre Club
Under the dynamic leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, Manhattan Theatre Club has grown in four and a half decades from a prolific Off-Off-Broadway showcase into one of the country’s most acclaimed theatre organizations.
Founded in 1970, MTC is committed to the creation of new plays and musicals through an intensive Artistic Development Program that offers commissions, script evaluation, dramaturgical support, readings and workshops. Using the work on its stages, MTC’s Education Program promotes active participation in the arts through in-class instruction, student and family matinees, teacher training, internships and internet-based distance learning. In constantly seeking new ways to innovate, MTC keeps theatre alive and relevant.
MTC now includes a subscriber base of 20,000 and produces on Broadway in the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (renamed in 2008 after the pioneering Broadway publicist) on West 47th Street and at the historic New York City Center complex on West 55th Street. Each season is distinguished by the variety of the repertoire.
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