| Manhattan Theatre Club Announces Plays by Richard Bean, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and Jaclyn Backhuas for 2018-2019 Season | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 06:00 pm EST 01/24/18 | |
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| Manhattan Theatre Club Announces Plays by Richard Bean and Tarell Alvin McCraney For 2018-2019 Season On Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre The Nap American Premiere Written by Richard Bean (One Man, Two Guvnors) Directed by Daniel Sullivan Choir Boy Broadway Premiere, Following Its American Premiere at MTC Written by Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight) Directed by Trip Cullman In addition, Manhattan Theatre Club announces India Pale Ale Off-Broadway at New York City Center – Stage I Written by Jaclyn Backhaus Directed by Will Davis Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce the first two Broadway productions slated for Manhattan Theatre Club’s upcoming 2018-2019 season at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). MTC will produce the American premiere of The Nap, written by Olivier Award nominee Richard Bean (One Man, Two Guvnors; Harvest) and directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan (Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes; Rabbit Hole; Proof); and the Broadway premiere of Choir Boy, by Academy Award winner Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight, The Brother/Sister Plays) and directed by Drama Desk Award nominee Trip Cullman (Significant Other, Lobby Hero). Choir Boy will mark McCraney’s Broadway debut as well as the second production that transfers to Broadway following an American premiere at MTC’s The Studio at Stage II – Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series, where it debuted in the summer of 2013 to rave reviews and sold-out audiences, extending twice during its run. In addition, MTC will produce the world premiere of India Pale Ale, the new play by Jaclyn Backhaus (Men on Boats, People Doing Math Live!) and directed by Lortel Award nominee Will Davis (Men on Boats, Charm) at MTC at New York City Center – Stage I. ON BROADWAY AT THE SAMUEL J. FRIEDMAN THEATRE The Nap American Premiere by Richard Bean Directed by Daniel Sullivan Previews Begin: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 Opening Night: Thursday, September 27, 2018 MTC will open its 2018-19 season with the American premiere of a new play by Richard Bean, the author of the rollicking, award-winning Broadway comedy One Man, Two Guvnors. The Nap is a very funny look at the world of snooker – the British version of pool. Dylan Spokes, a fast-rising young star arrives for a championship tournament only to be confronted by the authorities warning him of the repercussions of match fixing. Before he knows it, Dylan’s forced into underhanded dealings with a cast of wildly colorful characters that include his ex-convict dad, saucy mum, quick-tongued manager and a renowned gangster, to boot. It’s a fast-paced comedy thriller where, in an exciting twist, the tournament unfolds live on stage. In its British premiere, The Guardian raved, “Ingenious,” The Observer cheered, “Outrageously funny,” and The Daily Mail called The Nap “brilliant and terrifically inventive.” Directing is Tony Award® winner Daniel Sullivan. Casting, creative team, and other listings information for The Nap will be announced soon. ON BROADWAY AT THE SAMUEL J. FRIEDMAN THEATRE Choir Boy Broadway Premiere by Tarell Alvin McCraney Directed by Trip Cullman Previews Begin: Thursday, December 27, 2018 Opening Night: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 For half a century, the Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys has been dedicated to the education of strong, ethical black men. One talented student has been waiting for years to take his rightful place as the leader of the legendary gospel choir. But can he make his way through the hallowed halls of this institution if he sings in his own key? On its American debut at MTC’s Studio Stage II, The New York Times called the play “vivid, magnetic and moving,” and The New York Post hailed it as “bracing and provocative.” Now, we’re thrilled to bring this soaring music-filled work to Broadway. Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an Oscar®-winning screenwriter of Moonlight and a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship Grant. Directing is Trip Cullman (Murder Ballad). Choir Boy was commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club. Casting, creative team, and other listings information for Choir Boy will be announced soon. MTC AT NEW YORK CITY CENTER – STAGE I India Pale Ale World Premiere by Jaclyn Backhaus Directed by Will Davis Previews Begin: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 Opening Night: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 In a small Wisconsin town, a tight-knit Punjabi community gathers to celebrate the wedding of a traditional family’s only son, just as their strong-willed daughter announces her plans to move away and open a bar. As they come together for feasts filled with singing and dancing, one generation’s cherished customs clash with another’s modern-day aspirations, and ghosts and pirates from the family's past linger in everyone's thoughts - until one sudden event changes everything. This poignant and smartly funny new play about legacy, life and longing comes from the fresh voice of Jaclyn Backhaus, who again teams up with her Men on Boats director, Will Davis. Casting, creative team, and other listings information for India Pale Ale will be announced soon. Five additional productions for MTC’s 2018- 2019 season – including one at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway; two at MTC at New York City Center – Stage I; and two at The Studio at Stage II - Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series at New York City Center – will be announced in the coming weeks. Manhattan Theatre Club, under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, has become one of the country’s most prominent and prestigious theatre companies. Over the past four and a half decades, MTC productions have earned numerous awards including six Pulitzer Prizes and 23 Tony Awards. MTC has a Broadway home at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) and two Off-Broadway theatres at New York City Center (131 West 55th Street). Renowned MTC productions include Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes; August Wilson’s Jitney; Heisenberg by Simon Stephens; The Father by Florian Zeller with translation by Christopher Hampton; Fool For Love by Sam Shepard; Airline Highway by Lisa D’Amour; Casa Valentina by Harvey Fierstein; Outside Mullingar and Doubt by John Patrick Shanley; The Commons of Pensacola by Amanda Peet; Murder Ballad by Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash; The Assembled Parties by Richard Greenberg; Wit by Margaret Edson; Venus in Fur by David Ives; Good People and Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire; The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez; Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies; Ruined by Lynn Nottage; Proof by David Auburn; The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife by Charles Busch; Love! Valour! Compassion! by Terrence McNally; The Piano Lesson by August Wilson; Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley; and Ain’t Misbehavin’, the Fats Waller musical. For more information on MTC, please visit www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com. TICKETING INFORMATION Joining MTC’s season of plays is easy! Just call the MTC Clubline at 212-399-3050. Single ticket information for The Nap, Choir Boy, and India Pale Ale will be announced at a later date. For more information and to sign up for MTC’s “30 Under 30” program for theatregoers age 30 and under visit www.manhattantheatreclub.com/30under30/. BIOGRAPHIES FOR THE NAP RICHARD BEAN (Playwright) was born in Hull in 1956. After school, he worked in a bread plant before leaving to study Social Psychology at Loughborough University. Richard has worked as a psychologist and a stand-up comedian. His work for the stage includes: Young Marx (which has just opened London’s brand new Bridge Theatre); The Hypocrite (which completed runs at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Hull Truck Theatre); Kiss Me (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs); The Nap (Sheffield Crucible); The Mentalists (Wyndham’s Theatre); Made In Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre); Toast (Park Theatre); Pitcairn (Out of Joint /Chichester Festival Theatre/Shakespeare’s Globe); Great Britain (National Theatre); Under The Whaleback (The Wilma Theater); One Man, Two Guvnors (National Theatre (Lyttelton)/Adelphi Theatre/Theatre Royal Haymarket/Music Box Theatre, New York/World Tour) (2011 Evening Standard Award for Best Play, 2011 Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, 2012 Whatsonstage.com Award for Best New Comedy); a stage version of David Mamet’s House of Games (Almeida); The Big Fellah (produced by Out of Joint); Pub Quiz is Life (Hull Truck); England People Very Nice (National Theatre) (Olivier Award Nomination for Best New Play); The English Game (produced by Headlong); Up On Roof (Hull Truck) (nominated for TMA Play of the Year); In The Club (Hampstead Theatre); a version of Moliere’s The Hypochondriac (Almeida); The Heretic (Royal Court) (2011 Evening Standard Award for Best Play); Harvest (Royal Court) (nominated for Evening Standard and Olivier Best New Play Awards, Winner Critics’ Circle Best New Play); Honeymoon Suite (Royal Court) (Pearson Play of the Year); Under The Whaleback (Royal Court) (George Devine Award; Toast (Royal Court); The God Botherers (Bush Theatre); Smack Family Robinson (Newcastle Live!); The Mentalists (Lyttelton Loft, National Theatre); Mr England (Sheffield Crucible Theatre). His radio plays include Of Rats and Men, Yesterday, Unsinkable, and Robin Hood’s Revenge. DANIEL SULLIVAN (Director). MTC directorial credits include Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, The Country House, The Snow Geese, The Columnist, Lost Lake, Accent on Youth, Good People, Time Stands Still, Rabbit Hole, After the Night and the Music, Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, Psycopathia Sexualis, and Proof. He has directed over 30 Broadway productions and at least as many Off-Broadway, including ten for The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. He served as Artistic Director of Seattle Repertory Theatre from 1981 – 97. He is the Swanlund Professor of Theatre at University of Illinois, Champaign –Urbana. BIOGRAPHIES FOR CHOIR BOY TARELL ALVIN McCRANEY (Playwright) is best known for his acclaimed trilogy, The Brother/Sister Plays which include The Brothers Size, In The Red And Brown Water, and Marcus; Or The Secret Of Sweet. Other plays include Head Of Passes, Choir Boy, and Wig Out!. Tarell’s script In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue is the basis for the Oscar-winning film Moonlight directed by Barry Jenkins, for which McCraney and Jenkins also won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar. Among its many other honors, the film has won a Golden Globe for Best Drama, Gotham Award for Best Feature, NAACP Image Award for Best Independent Film, WGA Award for Best Original Screenplay, the Human Rights Campaign’s Visionary Arts Award, and 6 Independent Spirit Awards including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. Tarell is currently working on an original scripted TV series for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network, produced by Michael B Jordan and Page Fright Productions, as well as an original movie musical for Disney and David Oyelowo. He has also previously worked with Playtone, HBO and others. Tarell is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant, the Whiting Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, the Evening Standard Award, The New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award, the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, the Windham Campbell Award, and a Doris Duke Artist Award. He was the International Writer-in-Residence for the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2008-2010, and a former resident playwright at New Dramatists. He is an ensemble member at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and a member of Teo Castellanos/D-Projects in Miami. Tarell is a graduate of the New World School of the Arts, the Theatre School at DePaul University, and the Yale School of Drama, and has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Warwick. As Professor of Theatre and Civic Engagement at University of Miami, he created a three-year program in partnership with UM, Miami-Dade County and the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center. He was recently named the new Chairman of the Playwriting Department at the Yale School of Drama, as well as Playwright in Residence at Yale Repertory Theater. TRIP CULLMAN (Director). Broadway: John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation (Barrymore), Joshua Harmon's Significant Other (Booth). Select Off-Broadway: Anna Jordan's Yen, Simon Stephens' Punk Rock (Obie Award), Halley Feiffer's A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Gynecologic Oncology Unit At Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Of New York City (MCC); Leslye Headland's The Layover, Jon Robin Baitz' The Substance of Fire, Paul Weitz' Lonely I'm Not, Headland's Bachelorette, Terrence McNally's Some Men, Adam Bock's Swimming In The Shallows (Second Stage); Headland's Assistance, Bock's A Small Fire (Drama Desk nomination), Bock's The Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons); Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy (MTC); Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash's Murder Ballad (MTC and Union Square Theatre); Feiffer's I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard (Atlantic); Weitz' Roulette (EST); Adam Rapp's The Hallway Trilogy: Nursing (Rattlestick); Bert V. Royal's Dog Sees God (Century Center); Jonathan Tolins' The Last Sunday In June (Rattlestick and Century Center); Gina Gionfriddo’s US Drag (stageFARM); and several productions with The Play Company. London: Bock's The Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh, PA (Tricycle). Select regional: McCraney's Choir Boy (Ovation nomination), Bess Wohl's Barcelona (Ovation nomination), Feiffer's A Funny Thing Happened... (Geffen Playhouse); McCraney's Choir Boy (NAACP and Suzi Bass awards) (Alliance); Guare's Six Degrees of Separation (Old Globe); Richard Greenberg's The Injured Party (South Coast Rep); McNally's Unusual Acts of Devotion (La Jolla Playhouse); Christopher Durang's Betty's Summer Vacation (Bay Street); Wohl's Touched, Michael Friedman and Daniel Goldstein's Unknown Soldier, Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo, Feiffer's Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow (Williamstown Theater Festival). Upcoming: Lobby Hero (Second Stage at the Helen Hayes). BIOGRAPHIES FOR INDIA PALE ALE JACLYN BACKHAUS (Playwright) is a playwright and co-founder of Fresh Ground Pepper. Her play Men On Boats was a New York Times Critics’ Pick in Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks as well as the Off-Broadway production at Playwrights Horizons. It is published by Dramatists Play Service. Other works: Folk Wandering (Pipeline 2018), People Doing Math Live! (Under The Radar Festival's INCOMING! Series at The Public Theater), The Incredible Fox Sisters (Live Source), and You On The Moors Now (Theater Reconstruction Ensemble, The Hypocrites in Chicago). She received commissions from Playwrights Horizons, MTC, EST and Ars Nova and was the 2016 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Clubbed Thumb. She is currently in residence at Lincoln Center. BFA: NYU. She hails from Phoenix, Arizona. WILL DAVIS (Director) is a trans-identified director and choreographer focused on physically adventurous new work and old plays in new ways. He is also the artistic director of American Theater Company (ATC). Recent and upcoming projects include: Bobbie Clearly by Alex Lubischer for The Roundabout; Charm by Philip Dawkins for MCC; Welcome To Jesus by Janine Nabers for ATC; a queer re-imagining of Picnic by William Inge for ATC; Evita, re-conceived for the Olney Theatre Center, for which he received a Helen Hayes Nomination for Best Direction; Men On Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus for Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks, Playwrights Horizons and ATC, for which he received a Lucille Lortel Nomination for Best Direction; Duat by Daniel Alexander Jones for Soho Rep; Mike Iveson’s Sorry Robot for PS122’s COIL Festival; and two productions of Colossal by Andrew Hinderaker for Mixed Blood Theater and the Olney Theatre Center, for which he won a Helen Hayes award for Outstanding Direction. Davis has developed, directed and performed his work with NYSF, New York Theatre Workshop, Clubbed Thumb, the New Museum, the Olney Theatre Center, the Alliance Theatre, the Playwright’s Realm, the Fusebox Festival, the Orchard Project, the Ground Floor Residency at Berkeley Rep and the Kennedy Center. He is an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the NYTW 2050 Directing Fellowship and the BAX (Brooklyn Art Exchange) artist in residence program. He is a member of the TCG board and the Jubilee planning committee. # # # # www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com |
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