John Ellison Conlee, David Costabile & Maggie Siff to Star in THE (curious case of the) WATSON INTELLGENCE at Playwrights Horizons this Fall

Playwrights Horizons, under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, has announced additional details for its 2013/2014 Season, including new casting and the addition of a director to the final production of the season.

Tony Award nominee John Ellison Conlee (The Full Monty, Murder Ballad, The Madrid, Pig Farm), David Costabile ("Breaking Bad," "Suits," Lincoln, Mr. Marmalade, Translations, Caroline or Change) and Maggie Siff (Frank's Home at PH, Dr. Tara Knowles on "Sons of Anarchy," Rachel Menken on "Mad Men," A Lie of the Mind) complete the cast for the World Premiere of THE (curious case of the) WATSON INTELLGENCE, a new play by Madeleine George (The Zero Hour). Directed by two-time Obie Award winner Leigh Silverman (Go Back to Where You Are, Blue Door and The Call at PH; The Madrid, Chinglish, Golden Child, Well), previews will begin Sunday, November 17 at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater.

Carolyn Cantor (The Great God Pan, After the Revolution at PH, Pumpgirl, Orange Flower Water) will direct the New York premiere of FLY BY NIGHT: A NEW MUSICAL, a new musical conceived by Kim Rosenstock (Tigers Be Still), written by Will Connolly (performer, Once), Michael Mitnick (Sex Lives of Our Parents) and Ms. Rosenstock. The musical will be presented as the final production of the season, beginning previews on May 16, 2014 at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater.

The 2013/2014 Season's three World Premieres and three New York premieres (including a new musical) will be presented at the theater company's home at 416 West 42nd Street. In Season order, the six productions will be:

Mr. Burns, A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY - the New York premiere of a new play by Anne Washburn (The Internationalist), with music by Obie Award winner Michael Friedman (Saved, The Drunken City at PH; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, the current Love's Labours Lost), directed by Obie Award winner Steve Cosson (Gone Missing, This Beautiful City, founding Artistic Director of The Civilians), presented at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater. Now in rehearsal, Mr. Burns will be the first production of the season, beginning previews on Friday, August 23, 2013. Writing on the World Premiere at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC, Peter Marks of The Washington Post called it, "Inexhaustibly original. The sort of once in a blue moon show that stays stuck in your brain long after it has chilled you to the bone."

THE PATRON SAINT OF SEA MONSTERS - the World Premiere of a new play by Marlane Meyer (The Chemistry of Change for PH; Etta Jenks, Moe's Lucky Seven), directed by two-time Obie Award winner Lisa Peters on (The Chemistry of Change for PH; An Iliad, Slavs!) presented at Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater, beginning previews on Friday, October 18, 2013.

THE (curious case of the) WATSON INTELLGENCE - the World Premiere of a new play by Madeleine George (The Zero Hour), directed by two-time Obie Award winner Leigh Silverman (Go Back to Where You Are, Blue Door and the current The Call at PH; Chinglish, Golden Child,Well), presented at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater, beginning previews Sunday, November 17, 2013.

STAGE KISS - the New York premiere of a play by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl (Dead Man's Cell Phone at PH; The Clean House,In the Next Room...), directed by Rebecca Taichman (Milk Like Sugar at PH; Orlando, The Scene, the recent Luck of the Irish), presented at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater, beginning previews Friday, February 7, 2014. Writing on the World Premiere at The Goodman Theatre in Chicago, IL, Steven Oxman of Variety called it, "Wickedly clever, with breezily elegant dialogue and Ruhl's pleasingly loopy logic."

YOUR MOTHER'S COPY OF THE KAMA SUTRA - the World Premiere of a new play by Kirk Lynn (Founder, Rude Mechanicals, Austin), directed by Anne Kauffman (Detroit, Maple and Vine at PH; Belleville), presented at Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater, beginning previews Friday, March 28, 2014.

FLY BY NIGHT: A NEW MUSICAL - the New York premiere of a new musical conceived by Kim Rosenstock (Tigers Be Still), written by Will Connolly (performer, Once), Michael Mitnick (Sex Lives of Our Parents) and Ms. Rosenstock, directed by Carolyn Cantor (The Great God Pan andAfter the Revolution at PH, Pumpgirl, Orange Flower Water) presented at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater, beginning previews Friday, May 16, 2014. Writing on the Dallas Theatre Center production earlier this year, Elaine Liner of Dallas Observer asked, "When's the last time you saw a musical that left its audience happily crying and hugging each other during the curtain calls? That's what happened on opening night of FLY BY NIGHT, about as magical an evening as you'd ever want to experience in live theater."

Three subscription packages to Playwrights Horizons' 2013/2014 season are now available: a 6-show Subscription package ($240 for subscribers, four Mainstage and two Peter Jay Sharp Theater Productions); FlexPass (4+ tickets, $45-50 per ticket); and Membership ($55 membership fee + one ticket at $40 or less for each show, as desired). In addition to discounts on all season productions, subscribers receive priority booking and seating, ticket exchange privileges, parking and dining discounts, and exclusive mailings of Playwrights Horizons Bulletins. Packages are available at www.TicketCentral.com.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride