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| Manhattan Theatre Club Announces Remainder of 2018-2019 Season Lineup - Long Lost and The Niceties | |
| Last Edit: Official_Press_Release 11:09 am EDT 05/16/18 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 11:07 am EDT 05/16/18 | |
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| Manhattan Theatre Club Announces Remainder of 2018-2019 Season Lineup Long Lost New York Premiere By Pulitzer Prize Winner Donald Margulies Directed by Tony Award Winner Daniel Sullivan At MTC at New York City Center – Stage I The Niceties New York Premiere By Eleanor Burgess Directed by Kimberly Senior At The Studio at Stage II - Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series at New York City Center In Association with Huntington Theatre Company and McCarter Theatre Center Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce the final two plays slated for Manhattan Theatre Club’s upcoming 2018-2019 season off-Broadway at New York City Center (131 W. 55th Street). At New York City Center – Stage I, MTC will produce the New York premiere of Long Lost, by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies and directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan, continuing their longtime collaboration following The Country House, Brooklyn Boy, the Tony Award-nominated Time Stands Still, the Pulitzer Prize finalist Sight Unseen, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends. MTC is proud to produce The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess and directed by Kimberly Senior (Disgraced), in association with Huntington Theatre Company and McCarter Theatre Center, at The Studio at Stage II - Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series at New York City Center. The Niceties was originally presented as part of MTC’s Ted Snowdon Reading Series in 2017. MTC AT NEW YORK CITY CENTER – STAGE I Long Lost New York Premiere by Donald Margulies Directed by Daniel Sullivan Previews Begin: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 Opening Night: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such works as Time Stands Still and Dinner with Friends returns to MTC with a funny, unsettling, ultimately moving play about the limits of compassion and filial obligation. When troubled Billy appears out-of-the-blue in his estranged brother David’s Wall Street office, he soon tries to re-insert himself into the comfortable life David has built with his philanthropist wife and college-age son. What does Billy really want? Can he be trusted? And how much can family bonds smooth over past rifts? Tony winner Daniel Sullivan (Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes and Proof at MTC) directs this riveting new work from one of today’s greatest observers of modern life, Donald Margulies. Casting, creative team, and other listings information for Long Lost will be announced at a later date. THE STUDIO AT STAGE II - HAROLD AND MIMI STEINBERG NEW PLAY SERIES AT NEW YORK CITY CENTER The Niceties New York Premiere by Eleanor Burgess Directed by Kimberly Senior In Association with Huntington Theatre Company and McCarter Theatre Center Previews Begin: Friday, October 12, 2018 Opening Night: Thursday, October 25, 2018 At an elite East Coast university, an ambitious young black student and her esteemed white professor meet to discuss a paper the college junior is writing about the American Revolution. They’re both liberal. They’re both women. They’re both brilliant. But very quickly, discussions of grammar and Google turn to race and reputation, and before they know it, they’re in dangerous territory neither of them had foreseen – and facing stunning implications that can’t be undone. Written with powerful truth and humor by Eleanor Burgess, this deeply resonant work is directed by Kimberly Senior (Disgraced). The Washington Post hails it as “a barnstormer of a play,” adding that it’s “one of the best plays I’ve seen about who gets to tell the story of America, and how.” The Niceties was originally presented as part of MTC’s Ted Snowdon Reading Series in 2017. This production will debut at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, MA from August 31 – September 30, 2018 prior to arriving at Manhattan Theatre Club; it will then play McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ from January 11 – February 10, 2019. Casting, creative team, and other listings information for The Niceties will be announced at a later date. As previously announced, MTC’s complete 2018-2019 season will also include the American premiere of The Nap, written by Olivier Award nominee Richard Bean and directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan; the Broadway premiere of Choir Boy, by Academy Award winner Tarell Alvin McCraney and directed by Drama Desk Award nominee Trip Cullman; and the American premiere of Ink, written by Olivier Award winner James Graham and directed by two-time Olivier Award winner Rupert Goold, all at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway; the world premiere of India Pale Ale, by Jaclyn Backhaus and directed by Lortel Award nominee Will Davis; and the New York premiere of The Cake, by Bekah Brunstetter and directed by MTC Artistic Director Lynne Meadow, at MTC at New York City Center – Stage I; and the world premiere of Continuity, by Bess Wohl and directed by Tony Award nominee Rachel Chavkin, at The Studio at Stage II – The Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series. 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 7 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 the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner Cost of Living by Martyna Majok; Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes; August Wilson’s Jitney and The Piano Lesson; 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; 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 Long Lost and The Niceties will be announced at a later date. To sign up for MTC’s “30 Under 30” program, offering $30 tickets for theatregoers age 30 and under, visit www.manhattantheatreclub.com/30under30/. BIOGRAPHIES FOR LONG LOST DONALD MARGULIES (Playwright) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner with Friends and was a finalist twice before for Sight Unseen and Collected Stories. His many other plays, which include The Country House, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, Brooklyn Boy, the Tony Award-nominated Time Stands Still and the Obie Award-winning The Model Apartment, have been produced on and off-Broadway and in theaters across the United States and around the world. Mr. Margulies has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He was the recipient of the 2000 Sidney Kingsley Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theatre by a playwright. In 2005 he was honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with an Award in Literature and by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture with its Award in Literary Arts, and was the 2014 recipient of the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theatre Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career, the 2015 William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theater, and the 2018 Thornton Wilder Prize. He is an adjunct professor of English and Theater Studies at Yale University. Mr. Margulies has developed numerous screenplays, teleplays and pilots for HBO, Showtime, NBC, CBS, Warner Bros., TriStar, Universal, Paramount, and MGM. The film of his screenplay, The End of the Tour, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015, was nominated for the Film Independent Spirit Award and the UCLA Scripter Award for Best Screenplay. DANIEL SULLIVAN (Director). MTC directorial credits include Saint Joan; 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 THE NICETIES ELEANOR BURGESS (Playwright). Eleanor Burgess's work has been produced at the Alliance Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Portland Stage Company, and Centenary Stage, and developed at The New Group, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Salt Lake Acting Company, the Lark Play Development Center, and the Kennedy Center/NNPN MFA Playwrights Workshop. She’s currently a 2050 Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, a part of The Civilians’ R&D Group, and a member of Page 73’s writers group, Interstate 73. She has been the recipient of a Huntington Playwriting Fellowship, the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Award, and an EST/Sloan commission. She grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts and studied history at Yale College and Dramatic Writing at NYU/Tisch. KIMBERLY SENIOR (Director) is a freelance director and the director of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar. Kimberly made her HBO debut with Chris Gethard: Career Suicide, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Kimberly was awarded the prestigious Alan Schneider Award at the 2016 TCG Conference. She is also a 2013 Finalist for the SDCF Joe A. Callaway Award. She is the recipient of the 2016 Special Non-Equity Jeff Award for her Chicago career achievements as a trail blazer, champion and role model for emerging artists. In May 2018, Kimberly will receive The Einhorn Mentorship Award at Primary Stages. New York Credits: Disgraced (Broadway); Chris Gethard: Career Suicide (Judd Apatow presents); Discord (Primary Stages); Engagements (Second Stage Uptown); The Who and The What, and Disgraced (Lincoln Center Theater 3). Regional Credits: Sheltered (Alliance Theatre); Support Group for Men, Disgraced, and Rapture, Blister, Burn (Goodman Theatre); Buried Child, The Scene, Marjorie Prime, Diary of Anne Frank, Hedda Gabler, and The Letters (Writers Theatre); Other Than Honorable (Geva); Sex with Strangers (The Geffen Playhouse); Disgraced (Mark Taper Forum, Berkley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre); The Who and The What (La Jolla Playhouse); Little Gem (City Theatre); among others. Upcoming: The Niceties (Huntington and McCarter Theatres); Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Milwaukee Rep); Photograph 51 (South Coast Rep.) Kimberly is the incredibly proud mother of Noah and Delaney. She is a member of SDC. |
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| Saw THE NICETIES at last year's Contemporary American Theatre Festival. Best new play I've seen in years - thought-provoking, clever, AND entertaining. Looks like an autumn trip to New York might be in order for me. | |
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