| Vineyard Theatre announces 2024-2025 Season | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 04:29 pm EDT 05/23/24 | |
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| VINEYARD THEATRE ANNOUNCES 2024-2025 SEASON WORLD PREMIERE THE ANTIQUITIES WRITTEN BY JORDAN HARRISON A CO-PRODUCTION WITH PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS AND GOODMAN THEATRE WORLD PREMIERE BOWL EP WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY NAZARETH HASSAN A CO-PRODUCTION WITH NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NEW GROUP (New York City, NY - May 22, 2024) – Vineyard Theatre Artistic Directors Sarah Stern and Douglas Aibel are pleased to announce the company's upcoming 42nd Season which will include two world premiere productions with a third to be announced in coming weeks. The world premiere of The Antiquities, written by Jordan Harrison (The Amateurs, Marjorie Prime) is a co-production with Playwrights Horizons and Goodman Theatre and will be presented at Playwright Horizons (416 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036). The world premiere of Bowl EP, written and directed by Nazareth Hassan (Vineyard Artist-in-Residence), will be a co-production with National Black Theatre in association with The New Group, and will be presented at The Vineyard (108 East 15th Street, New York, NY 10003). Fall programming will be announced in coming weeks. Artistic Director Sarah Stern says, ?"We are delighted to share news of two extraordinary world-premiere works that will be part of our 2024-25 season. In a time of so much change in society, each play delves deeply into the most essential human inquiry: the nature of what it is to be alive, in our bodies and in relationship to one another. This winter, we are thrilled to collaborate with Jordan Harrison on The Antiquities after premiering his acclaimed play The Amateurs in 2018. Building on his long-time interest in how technology shapes our lives, his new play is a riveting look at our present moment, as told from a non-human future. In the spring, we will welcome Nazareth Hassan, one of the most dynamic young theatre artists in the country, with Bowl EP, their Off-Broadway debut. Bowl EP invites us into a skateboard park in the summertime to meet two skaters exploring and negotiating languages of intimacy and connection, freedom and rebellion, taking us to places we could not have predicted. Filled with humor and electricity, Bowl EP features live skateboarding and live rap music to create a truly unique theatrical event. Both The Antiquities and Bowl EP are works of expansive imagination, intimate poetry, and daringly original storytelling, which invite audiences to experience theatre in new ways." The recipients of The Vineyard's 2024-2025 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award and Colman Domingo Award residencies will be announced later this fall. The Vineyard's current Artists-in-Residence include Shayok Misha Chowdhury, Josiah Davis, Nazareth Hassan, Rudi Goblen, Mara Nelson-Greenberg, and a.k. Payne. The Vineyard will give audiences a closer look at their 2024-25 season (and beyond) in an upcoming event on Monday, June 10 at 7 pm. Fearless Collaborations will feature conversations with Jordan Harrison and dramaturg Sarah Lunnie; Nazarath Hassan and Joe Morton; and Martha Clarke and Arthur Solari, about the process of creating the work audiences will soon have a chance to see. Patrons who join Vineyard's Maker program for the 2024-2025 season at the Scenemaker level or above by June 3 will get free VIP access to Fearless Collaborations and join actor Joe Morton for cocktails at 5:30pm at Corkbuzz (13 E. 13th Street). More information about Fearless Collaborations is available at https://vineyardtheatre.org/memberships/ and the Maker program at vineyardtheatre.org/become-a-maker. The Vineyard's production of David Cale's Harry Clarke, directed by Leigh Silverman and starring Billy Crudup, recently closed its acclaimed run at the Ambassadors Theatre on London's West End. Memberships are now on sale for The Vineyard's 2024-2025 season. Three-ticket packages start at $120. Theatre Artist and Under 40 memberships are $40. All memberships ensure the earliest access to tickets for a fraction of full ticket prices. To purchase and for additional information regarding packages, please visit https://vineyardtheatre.org/memberships or call the box office at 212-353-0303. Vineyard Theatre 2024-25 Season The Antiquities By Jordan Harrison Winter 2025 World Premiere Co-production with Playwrights Horizons and Goodman Theatre Presented at Playwrights Horizons, 416 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036 At the Museum of Late Human Antiquities, the curators are fiercely committed to bringing a lost civilization to life again: What were humans really like? What did they wear, what did they eat, how did they die out? By casting us into the far future, Jordan Harrison's new play gives us an uncanny view of the present moment, as we straddle the analog world that was and the post-human world to come. Jordan Harrison (Playwright) was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Marjorie Prime, which had its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons after premiering at the Mark Taper Forum. Other plays include The Amateurs (Vineyard Theatre), Maple and Vine, Log Cabin, and Doris to Darlene (all at Playwrights Horizons), The Grown-Up (Humana Festival), Amazons and their Men (Clubbed Thumb), Futura (NAATCO), Act a Lady (Humana Festival), and Finn in the Underworld (Berkeley Rep). Jordan is the recipient of the Horton Foote Prize for Best New American Play, the Kesselring Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. TV: Three seasons as writer-producer on the Netflix series "Orange is the New Black," as well as Netflix's "GLOW" and AMC's "Dispatches from Elsewhere." A print collection of Jordan's work, Maple and Vine & Other Plays will be published later this year by TCG. Bowl EP Written and directed by Nazareth Hassan Spring 2025 World Premiere Co-production with National Black Theatre in association with The New Group Presented at Vineyard Theatre, 108 East 15th Street, New York, NY 10003 Kelly K Klarkson and Quentavius da Quitter need to find a name for their rap group. Through flirty interludes, cringy overshares, and practicing their ollies, they grow increasingly closer. Skating and Smoking. Skating and Drinking. Skating and exorcizing a demon. With live skating and original music, enter Bowl EP: a skateboard park, in the middle of a wasteland, at the edge of the galaxy. Nazareth Hassan they/them (Playwright/Director) is an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, writing, music, video, and photography. Recent performance works include Untitled (1-5) at The Shed (text published by 3 Hole Press), VANTABLACK at Theatretreffen Stuckemarkt in Berlin, #2112 at Center for Performance Research, and Memory A at Museo Universitario del Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City. Their first collection of poetry and photography Slow Mania will be published in 2025 by Futurepoem. They have released four singles, available on all platforms. They were the 2022 resident dramaturg at The Royal Court Theatre. They are a 2023-25 Jerome Hill artist fellow, and the 2024-2025 Tow Foundation Artist-in-Residence at Vineyard Theatre. About Vineyard Theatre Vineyard Theatre is dedicated to developing and producing new plays and musicals that push the boundaries of what theatre can be and do, and to nurturing a community of fearless theatremakers whose work expands the form, the field, and the larger culture. The Vineyard has transferred 11 shows to Broadway, seven directly after their acclaimed Vineyard premieres: Lucas Hnath's Dana H. and Tina Satter's Is This A Room; Paula Vogel's Indecent; Nicky Silver's The Lyons; Kander, Ebb and Thompson's The Scottsboro Boys; Bell and Bowen's [title of show]; and Avenue Q by Marx, Lopez and Whitty (Tony Award, Best Musical). Four additional shows launched at The Vineyard have been revived in their first Broadway productions: Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive; Lanie Robertson's Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill; Becky Mode's Fully Committed; and Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning Three Tall Women. From our home in NYC's Union Square, The Vineyard develops and premieres new plays and musicals which go on to be seen around the country and the world. Recently, Jeremy O. Harris' play "Daddy" (2019) received its London premiere at the Almeida; Ngozi Anyanwu's Good Grief (2018) and David Cale's Harry Clarke (2017) were recorded by Audible; Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Gloria (2014), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and transferred to Chicago's Goodman Theatre; Paula Vogel's Tony Award-winning Indecent (2016) aired on PBS's "Great Performances" and was one of the most-produced plays nationwide in 2019; Colman Domingo's Dot (2016) is being adapted into an AMC series; and Is This a Room (2019) is now HBO's Reality. Our recent world-premiere production of John J. Caswell's Scene Partners (2023), starring Dianne Wiest, was live-streamed around the world. Over 41 years, The Vineyard's work has been recognized with the industry's highest honors, including Pulitzer Prizes, Tony Awards, a special Drama Desk, Obie, and Lucille Lortel Awards for artistic excellence and support of artists. Vineyard Theatre's leadership includes Artistic Directors Sarah Stern and Douglas Aibel (on sabbatical 24-25) and Managing Director Suzanne Appel. About Playwrights Horizons Playwrights Horizons is a writer's theater dedicated to the development of contemporary American playwrights, and to the production of innovative new work. In a city rich with cultural offerings, Playwrights Horizons' 52-year-old mission is unique among theaters of its size; the organization has distinguished itself by a steadfast commitment to centering and advancing the voice of the playwright. It's a mission that is always timely, and one that's necessary in the ongoing evolution of theater in this country. Playwrights Horizons believes that playwrights are the great storytellers of our time, offering essential contributions to civic discourse and illuminating life's greatest paradoxes. And they believe in the singularity of a writer's voice, valuing the broad, eclectic spectrum and diversity of American writers. At Playwrights Horizons, writers are supported in every stage of their growth through commissions (engaging several of today's most imaginative playwrights each year), New Works Lab, and Almanac, the organization's literary magazine. Playwrights Horizons presents a season of productions annually on their two stages, each of which is a world, American, or New York premiere. Much like Playwrights Horizons' work, their audience is risk-taking and adventurous; and the organization is committed to strengthening their engagement and feeding their curiosity through all of its programming, onsite and online. About Goodman Theatre Established in 1925, Goodman Theatre (Artistic Director Susan V. Booth, Executive Director/CEO Roche Schulfer, Board Chair Julie Danis) is Chicago's largest not-for-profit theater distinguished by the excellence and scope of its artistic programming and community engagement. Committed to the values of equity, diversity and inclusion, the Goodman makes inclusion the fabric of the organization through its artistic priorities—including new play development, large scale musical theater works and reimagined classics. Our nationally recognized Education and Engagement programs use the tools of our profession to inspire youth, lifelong learners and audiences to find and/or enhance their voices and stories. Works premiering at the Goodman have received two Pulitzer Prizes, 22 Tony Awards and nearly 200 Jeff Awards. About National Black Theatre National Black Theatre (NBT) is a Tony and Emmy Award-nominated institution founded in 1968 by the late visionary artist Dr. Barbara Ann Teer. The nation's first revenue-generating Black arts complex, NBT is the longest-running Black theatre in New York City, one of the oldest theatres founded and consistently operated by a woman of color in the nation, and has been included in the permanent collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. NBT's core mission is to produce transformational theatre that helps to shift the inaccuracies around African Americans' cultural identity by telling authentic stories of Black lives. As an alternative learning environment, NBT uses theatre arts as a means to educate, enrich, entertain, empower and inform the national conscience around current social issues impacting our communities. Under the leadership of Sade Lythcott, CEO, and Jonathan McCrory, Executive Artistic Director, NBT helps re-shape a more inclusive American theatre field by providing an artistically rigorous and culturally sensitive space for artists of color to experiment, develop and present new work. nationalblacktheatre.org. About The New Group The New Group (Scott Elliott, Founding Artistic Director; Adam Bernstein, Executive Director): Founded in 1995, The New Group is an award-winning, artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theatre. While constantly evolving, we strive to maintain an ensemble approach to all our work and an articulated style of emotional immediacy in our acting and productions. In this way, we seek a theater that is adventurous, stimulating, and most importantly, "now" – a true forum for our present culture. The New Group has received over 150 awards and nominations for excellence, including the Tony Award for Best Musical for Avenue Q, 10 Lortel Awards, two special citation Obie Awards, and a Drama Desk Special Award "for presenting contemporary new voices, and for uncompromisingly raw and powerful productions." The organization's New Group/New Works play and musical development program champions original works by emerging and established authors. The New Group Off Stage celebrates work at the intersection of art, multimedia and social engagement by showcasing some of today's most compelling storytellers through web series, films, audio plays and more. The New Group also operates a variety of theater education programs including a Summer Conservatory for teens, college access programs, and a college-level BFA Acting program in collaboration with LIU-Brooklyn. thenewgroup.org. PRODUCTION INFORMATION The Antiquities By Jordan Harrison Winter 2025 World Premiere Co-production with Playwrights Horizons and Goodman Theatre Presented at Playwrights Horizons, 416 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036 Bowl EP Written and directed by Nazareth Hassan Spring 2025 World Premiere Co-production with National Black Theatre in association with The New Group Presented at Vineyard Theatre, 108 East 15th Street, New York, NY 10003 WEBSITE & SOCIAL MEDIA Website: https://vineyardtheatre.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vineyardtheatrenyc X: https://twitter.com/vineyardtheatre Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vineyardtheatre/ |
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