| Manhattan Theatre Club Announces Complete Casting for THE NEW ENGLANDERS | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 06:15 pm EDT 06/20/19 | |
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| Manhattan Theatre Club Announces Complete Casting for THE NEW ENGLANDERS World Premiere by Jeff Augustin Directed by Saheem Ali Previews Begin Tuesday, September 17, 2019 Opening Wednesday, October 2, 2019 At The Studio at Stage II - Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series at New York City Center Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce complete casting for the world premiere of The New Englanders, the new play by Jeff Augustin (Little Children Dream of God) and directed by Saheem Ali (Sugar in Our Wounds). The production will feature Teagle F. Bougere (Socrates, A Raisin In the Sun), Patrick Breen (The Normal Heart, Next Fall), Crystal Finn (Kingdom Come), Javier Muñoz (Hamilton, In the Heights), Uly Schlesinger (“Chicago Med”) and Kara Young (Hair Wolf). The production is part of MTC’s The Studio at Stage II – The Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series, and will begin previews Tuesday, September 17, 2019 prior to a Wednesday, October 2, 2019 opening. Can you ever really live the life you envisioned? In a mixed race family, a teenaged daughter and her dads are all trying to find happiness. Eisa wants to be the next Lauryn Hill and is struggling to break free of her sleepy New England town where she feels hopelessly trapped. Her fathers are being pulled in different directions of their own, one trying to re-connect with an old love, the other clinging to the path he always believed would be their future. Saheem Ali (Sugar in our Wounds) directs the MTC debut of Jeff Augustin’s (Little Children Dream of God) newest play. The creative team for The New Englanders will include Arnulfo Maldonado (scenic design), Dede Ayite (costume design), Alan C. Edwards (lighting design) and Palmer Hefferan (sound design). The Studio at Stage II has been partially underwritten with a major grant from The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. As previously announced, MTC’s 2019-2020 productions will include the American premiere of The Height of the Storm, written by Tony Award nominee Florian Zeller (The Father), translated by Tony Award winner Christopher Hampton (Les Liaisons Dangereuses) and directed by Tony and Drama Desk Award nominee Jonathan Kent (Long Day’s Journey into Night), starring Olivier and Tony Award winner Jonathan Pryce (Miss Saigon, “Game of Thrones”) and Olivier Award winner Eileen Atkins (Doubt, The Retreat From Moscow); and the American premiere of My Name is Lucy Barton, written by Elizabeth Strout (Olive Kitteridge), adapted by Rona Munro (The James Trilogy), and directed by Richard Eyre (The Crucible, Notes on a Scandal), starring Laura Linney (Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, “Ozark”) at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway; the world premiere of Bella Bella, written and performed by Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein (Casa Valentina, Torch Song, Hairspray) and directed by Kimberly Senior (Disgraced, The Niceties); the world premiere of The Perplexed, written by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out, Our Mother’s Brief Affair, The Assembled Parties) and directed by MTC’s award-winning Artistic Director Lynne Meadow (The Cake, The Assembled Parties, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife); and the co-world premiere of Poor Yella Rednecks by Qui Nguyen (Vietgone) and directed by May Adrales (Vietgone) at New York City Center – Stage I; and the world premiere of The New Englanders by Jeff Augustin (Little Children Dream of God) and directed by Saheem Ali (Sugar in Our Wounds), and the world premiere of The Best We Could (a family tragedy), written by Emily Feldman (We’ve Come To Believe) and directed by Daniel Aukin (Fool For Love, Skintight) at New York City Center – Stage II. One additional production for MTC’s 2019- 2020 season at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway will be announced at a later date. 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 27 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 INK by James Graham, Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney; 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 New and renewing subscribers can join MTC’s 2019-20 season by visiting www.manhattantheatreclub.com/join or by calling the Clubline at 212-399-3050. Single Tickets for The New Englanders will go on sale beginning September 3rd. In order to ensure that tickets to The New Englanders are affordable to the widest and most diverse audiences possible, MTC will price all tickets during the show's initial five-week run at $35. To sign up for MTC’s “30 Under 35” program, offering $30 tickets for theatregoers age 35 and under, visit www.manhattantheatreclub.com/30under35/. |
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