Lincoln Center Theater Adds Douglas Carter Beane Play, Musical by GREAT COMET OF 1812 Creator Dave Malloy to 2015 Season

Lincoln Center Theater has announced two new upcoming productions: SHOWS FOR DAYS, a new play by Douglas Carter Beane, to be directed by Jerry Zaks; and the LCT3 production of PRELUDES, a new musical by Dave Malloy, to be directed by Rachel Chavkin. SHOWS FOR DAYS, marks the return of both playwright Douglas Carter Beane (The Nance) and director Jerry Zaks (The House of Blue Leaves, Anything Goes, Six Degrees of Separation) to Lincoln Center Theater, will begin previews Thursday, June 4 and open on Monday, June 29 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. PRELUDES, the first musical to be produced by LCT3 in the Claire Tow Theater, will run from Saturday, May 23 through Sunday, July 19. Opening night is Monday, June 15.

SHOWS FOR DAYS

SHOWS FOR DAYS is playwright Douglas Carter Beane's fond remembrance of his immersion into a life in the theater. The comedy is set in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1973, when 14-year old Car, the play's narrator and the author's alter-ego, is introduced to the world of theater through his local community theatre, the Prometheus Theatre, and its devoted cast and crew which is led by Irene, an indomitable force of nature whose life is dedicated to putting on productions she directs, designs and stars in.

Casting and design team for SHOWS FOR DAYS will be announced at a later date.

DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE is the author of The Nance, produced by Lincoln Center Theater in 2013 and which was filmed by Live from Lincoln Center and shown in movie theaters and broadcast on PBS. His other plays include The Little Dog Laughed (Tony Award nomination, Olivier Award nomination, GLAAD Media Award), Mr. & Mrs. Fitch, As Bees in Honey Drown (winner of the Outer Critics Circle's John Gassner Playwriting Award), Advice From a Caterpillar, The Country Club, Music From a Sparkling Planet, and The Cartells. He received Tony Award nominations for books for the current Broadway musical Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella; Sister Act; Lysistrata Jones; and Xanadu, for which he also won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. His screenplays include To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, and Advice from a Caterpillar (Best Feature, Aspen Comedy Festival).

JERRY ZAKS returns to LCT where he directed The House of Blue Leaves, Anything Goes, The Front Page, Six Degrees of Separation, and A Bad Friend. He has directed over 30 productions in New York and is the winner of four Tony Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards and an Obie Award. His other productions include Guys and Dolls, Lend Me A Tenor, La Cage Aux Folles, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, A Bronx Tale, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, and Beyond Therapy. He directed the films Marvin's Room and Who Do You Love? and episodes of the long-running comedy series' "Everybody Loves Raymond," "Frasier," and "Two and A Half Men."

PRELUDES

From the creators of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, PRELUDES is a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov. After the disastrous premiere of his first symphony, the young Rachmaninov suffers from writer's block. He begins daily sessions with a therapeutic hypnotist, in an effort to overcome depression and return to composing.

PRELUDES was commissioned by LCT3 with a grant from the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. Paige Evans is Artistic Director/LCT3.

The production will have sets by Mimi Lien, costumes by Paloma Young, lights by Bradley King, and sound by Matt Hubbs. Casting for PRELUDES will be announced at a later date.

DAVE MALLOY is the winner of an OBIE Award, a Richard Rodgers Award, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He is currently starring in his new musical Ghost Quartet at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn. His other recent shows include Three Pianos, Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage, All Hands, Beardo, The Sewers, Sandwich, Clown Bible, (The 99-cent) Miss Saigon, and Black Wizard Blue Wizard at the Incubator Arts Project, with co-creator/performer Eliza Bent.

RACHEL CHAVKIN is an OBIE Award-winning director and Artistic Director of the Brooklyn-based ensemble The TEAM. Her credits include The TEAM's Mission Drift (co-produced by PS 122, Lisbon's Culturgest, and London's Almeida Theatre), with music by Heather Christian; Meg Miroshnik's The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, Lauren Yee's The Hatmaker's Wife, James Monaco's Reception, James Monaco and Jerome Ellis' Aaron/Marie, Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy and Dave Malloy's Three Pianos, and Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge (Act II).

The LCT3 program is supported by generous grants from The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Ford Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Time Warner Foundation, The Educational Foundation of America, and the J & AR Foundation.

This fall, Lincoln Center Theater is producing The Oldest Boy, a new play by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Rebecca Taichman, at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, which will be followed this winter by The Mystery of Love and Sex, a new play by Bathsheba Doran, directed by Sam Gold, beginning Thursday, February 5. LCT3 is opening its 2014-2015 season with brownsville song (b-side for tray) by Kimber Lee, directed by Patricia McGregor, running through Sunday, November 16 at the Claire Tow Theater, followed by Verité, a new play by Nick Jones, to be directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, beginning Saturday, January 31. In addition to these two productions, LCT is co-producing the Broadway production of Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Disgraced which was originally produced in New York by LCT3. The production, directed by Kimberly Senior, is currently in previews and opens on Thursday, October 23 at the Lyceum Theatre. This spring, LCT will produce a new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I, to be directed by Bartlett Sher, beginning previews Thursday, March 12 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.