| Signature’s THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA Announces Casting & Tickets Now on Sale | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 12:32 pm EDT 09/05/19 | |
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| Tickets Now on Sale, Casting, & Special Events Announced For Signature Theatre’s Production of The Young Man from Atlanta By Horton Foote Directed by Michael Wilson Performed in The Irene Diamond Stage At The Pershing Square Signature Center Running November 5 to December 8, 2019, Opening on November 24, 2019 Signature Theatre (Paige Evans, Artistic Director; Harold Wolpert, Executive Director) has announced casting and the creative team for The Young Man from Atlanta, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by two-time Academy Award winner and former Signature Residency One Playwright Horton Foote, directed by Michael Wilson. Tickets, priced at $35 thanks to the Signature Ticket Initiative, are on sale now for the production, which runs November 5 to December 8, 2019 with a Sunday, November 24th opening night in The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues). Click here for more information. The cast for The Young Man from Atlanta includes Devon Abner (Signature’s The Orphans' Home Cycle and The Trip to Bountiful) as Ted Cleveland Jr., Dan Bittner (Brittany Runs a Marathon) as Tom Jackson, Pat Bowie (Signature’s The Orphans' Home Cycle) as Etta Doris, Kristine Nielsen (Signature’s What I Did Last Summer) as Lily Dale, Jon Orsini (Signature’s Incident at Vichy) as Carson, Larry Pine (Evening at the Talk House) as Pete Davenport, and Aidan Quinn (CBS’ “Elementary”) as Will Kidder. Additional casting will be determined at a later date. The creative team for The Young Man from Atlanta includes Jeff Cowie (Scenic Design), Van Broughton Ramsey (Costume Design), David Lander (Lighting Design) and John Gromada (Sound Design & Original Music). The Production Stage Manager is Robert Bennett and Casting is by Caparelliotis Casting. Danger lurks just below the surface in Horton Foote’s powerful, Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of an aging couple still reeling from the death of their only child. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly modernizing 1950s Houston, the Kidders’ lives are turned upside down once again when a figure from their son’s past shows up in town. They deny, deflect and deceive in an effort to avoid the danger but can’t dodge the inevitable reckoning. How far will these grieving parents go to avoid the truths this young man from Atlanta might reveal? Director Michael Wilson (The Orphans’ Home Cycle, The Old Friends), the premier interpreter of Foote’s work, returns to Signature to spearhead this beautiful, heartbreaking play that explores and dissects the American dream while revealing the depths we go to in order to keep ourselves safe. Free Signature Spotlight Events Additionally, Signature Theatre will host several special events at The Pershing Square Signature Center in conjunction with its run of The Young Man from Atlanta. Signature Spotlight Series is sponsored by American Express. Director Michael Wilson and Hallie Foote will participate in a free pre-show discussion on Wednesday, November 13. Talkbacks with members of the cast and creative team for this production will also take place following the performances on November 12, November 19, November 26, and December 3. Accessible Performances As part of its commitment to providing an enjoyable theatre-going experience for all patrons, Signature Theatre offers open caption and audio described performances during the season. For The Young Man from Atlanta, the Audio Described performance is on December 7 at 2:00pm and the Open Caption performance is on December 8 at 2:00pm. The Young Man from Atlanta is generously sponsored by The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation. The Young Man from Atlanta is generously supported by the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater. The groundbreaking Signature Ticket Initiative: A Generation of Access, which recently celebrated its one-millionth ticket sold, is a program that guarantees affordable tickets to every Signature production through 2031. Serving as a model for theatres and performing arts organizations across the country, the Initiative was founded in 2005 and is made possible by lead partner The Pershing Square Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, Margot Adams, The SHS Foundation, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. To purchase tickets for all Signature productions call Ticket Services at 212-244-7529 (Tues. – Sun., 11am – 6pm) or visit www.SignatureTheatre.org. 2019-2020 SEASON OVERVIEW RESIDENCY 1: ANNA DEAVERE SMITH Fires in the Mirror Conceived, Written, and Originally Performed By Anna Deavere Smith Directed by Saheem Ali October 22 – November 24, 2019 The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre There are three sides to every story: yours, mine and the truth. Following the deaths of a Black American boy and a young Orthodox Jewish scholar in the summer of 1991, underlying racial tensions in the nestled community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn erupted into civil outbreak. Fires in the Mirror was Anna Deavere Smith’s groundbreaking response. Birthed from a series of interviews with over fifty members of the Jewish and Black communities, the Drama Desk award-winning work translated their voices verbatim, and in the process revolutionized the genre of documentary theatre. As much provocation as it is exploration, this landmark play launches Anna Deavere Smith’s Residency 1 at Signature. Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 Conceived, Written, and Originally Performed By Anna Deavere Smith Directed by Taibi Magar April 28 – May 31, 2020 The Irene Diamond Stage One verdict can change the course of history. The news of the police officers’ acquittal in Rodney King’s police brutality case reverberated throughout the streets of Los Angeles. Variously called a “riot, a revolution, or a social explosion,” the events that followed the verdict drew worldwide attention. Playwright, actor and scholar Anna Deavere Smith responded artistically by dissecting the anatomy of the unrest. She interviewed over 350 Los Angelinos in preparation for the performance. Declared a “rich, panoramic canvas of a national trauma” by The New York Times, Smith’s transformative study of the 1992 L.A. riots reveals the fault lines that set the city ablaze. Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is equal parts meticulously researched reportage and stirring cry for reform. RESIDENCY 5: KATORI HALL The Hot Wing King **World Premiere** By Katori Hall Directed by Steve H. Broadnax III February 11 – March 15, 2020 The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre Ready, set, fry! It’s time for the annual "Hot Wang Festival" in Memphis, Tennessee, and Cordell Crutchfield knows he has the wings that’ll make him king. Supported by his beau Dwayne and their culinary clique, The New Wing Order, Cordell is marinating and firing up his frying pan in a bid to reclaim the crispy crown. When Dwayne takes in his troubled nephew however, it becomes a recipe for disaster. Suddenly, a first place trophy isn’t the only thing Cordell risks losing. Steve H. Broadnax III will direct this sizzling world premiere comedy from Residency 5 playwright Katori Hall (Hurt Village, Our Lady of Kibeho). RESIDENCY 5: DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU Confederates **New York Premiere** By Dominique Morisseau Directed by Kamilah Forbes May 12 – June 14, 2020 The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre Sara, a savvy slave turned Union spy, and Sandra, a brilliant professor in a modern-day private university, are facing similar struggles, though they live over a century apart. This New York premiere by MacArthur Genius Fellow Dominique Morisseau, directed by Kamilah Forbes (By the Way, Meet Vera Stark), leaps through time in order to trace the identities of these two black American women and explore the reins that racial and gender bias still hold on American educational systems today. RESIDENCY 5: LAUREN YEE Cambodian Rock Band **New York Premiere** By Lauren Yee Directed by Chay Yew February 4 – March 8, 2020 The Irene Diamond Stage Guitars tuned. Mic checked. Get ready to rock. This electric new play with music tells the story of a Khmer Rouge survivor returning to Cambodia for the first time in thirty years, as his daughter prepares to prosecute one of Cambodia's most infamous war criminals. Backed by a live band playing contemporary Dengue Fever hits and classic Cambodian oldies, this thrilling story toggles back and forth in time as father and daughter face the music of the past. Directed by Chay Yew, the New York premiere of this intimate rock epic about family secrets is set against a dark chapter of Cambodian history. It launches Steinberg Award-winning playwright Lauren Yee’s Residency 5. LEGACY PROGRAM: HORTON FOOTE The Young Man from Atlanta By Horton Foote Directed by Michael Wilson November 5 – December 8, 2019 The Irene Diamond Stage Danger lurks just below the surface in Horton Foote’s powerful, Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of an aging couple still reeling from the death of their only child. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly modernizing 1950s Houston, the Kidders’ lives are turned upside down once again when a figure from their son’s past shows up in town. They deny, deflect and deceive in an effort to avoid the danger but can’t dodge the inevitable reckoning. How far will these grieving parents go to avoid the truths this young man from Atlanta might reveal? Director Michael Wilson (The Orphans’ Home Cycle, The Old Friends), the premier interpreter of Foote’s work, returns to Signature to spearhead this beautiful, heartbreaking play that explores and dissects the American dream while revealing the depths we go to in order to keep ourselves safe. About SIGNATURE THEATRE Signature Theatre celebrates playwrights and gives them an artistic home. Signature makes an extended commitment to a playwright’s body of work, producing several plays by each resident writer and delivering an intimate and immersive journey into the playwright’s singular vision. In 2014, Signature became the first New York City company to receive the Regional Theater Tony Award. Signature serves its mission through its permanent home at The Pershing Square Signature Center, a three-theatre facility on West 42nd Street designed by Frank Gehry Architects to host Signature’s three distinct playwrights’ residencies and foster a cultural community. At the Center, opened in January 2012, Signature continues its original Playwright-in-Residence model as Residency 1, a year-long intensive exploration of a single writer’s body of work. Residency 5, the only program of its kind, was launched at the Center to support multiple playwrights as they build bodies of work by guaranteeing each writer three productions over a five-year period. The Legacy Program, launched during Signature’s 10th Anniversary, invites writers from both residencies back for productions of premiere or earlier plays. The Pershing Square Signature Center is a major contribution to New York City’s cultural landscape and provides a venue for cultural organizations that supports and encourages collaboration among artists throughout the space. In addition to its three intimate theatres, the Center features a studio theatre, a rehearsal studio and a public café, bar and bookstore. Through the Signature Ticket Initiative: A Generation of Access, Signature has also made an unprecedented commitment to making its productions accessible by underwriting the cost of the initial run tickets through 2031. Founded in 1991 by James Houghton and now led by Artistic Director Paige Evans, Signature has presented entire seasons of the work of Edward Albee, Lee Blessing, Horton Foote, María Irene Fornés, Athol Fugard, Stephen Adly Guirgis, John Guare, A.R. Gurney, David Henry Hwang, Bill Irwin, Adrienne Kennedy, Tony Kushner, Romulus Linney, Charles Mee, Arthur Miller, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sam Shepard, Paula Vogel, Naomi Wallace, August Wilson, Lanford Wilson and a season celebrating the historic Negro Ensemble Company. Lynn Nottage is the current Residency 1 playwright. Signature’s Residency 5 playwrights are Annie Baker, Martha Clarke, Katori Hall, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Dave Malloy and Dominique Morisseau; Will Eno completed his Residency 5 in 2016. Signature’s productions and its resident writers have been recognized with the Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur “Genius” Fellowships, Lucille Lortel, Obie, Drama Desk and AUDELCO awards, among many other distinctions. For more information, please visit signaturetheatre.org. Delta Air Lines is the Official Airline of Signature Theatre. |
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