MTC Will Bring Richard Greenberg's OUR MOTHER'S BRIEF AFFAIR to Broadway Next Winter; Linda Lavin Set to Star

Manhattan Theatre Club has just announced it will produce the New York premiere of Our Mother's Brief Affair, the new play by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, directed by MTC's award-winning Artistic Director Lynne Meadow, starring Tony and two-time Golden Globe Award winner Linda Lavin.

The limited engagement of Our Mother's Brief Affair will begin previews Monday, December 28, 2015 and open Wednesday, January 20, 2016 on Broadway at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). Our Mother's Brief Affair is presented as part of MTC's 2015-2016 theatrical season.

Tony and two-time Golden Globe winner Linda Lavin (Collected Stories, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife) returns to MTC in Our Mother's Brief Affair, a new play making its New York premiere. From the team behind The Assembled Parties - Tony-winning writer Richard Greenberg (Three Days of Rain, Take Me Out) and award-winning MTC Artistic Director Lynne Meadow (The Commons of Pensacola, Wit) - this innovative work challenges us to look at who our parents are when they're not being our parents.

On the verge of death for the umpteenth time, Anna (Linda Lavin) makes a shocking confession to her grown children: an affair from her past that just might have resonance beyond the family. But how much of what she says is true? While her children try to separate fact from fiction, Anna fights for a legacy she can be proud of. With razor-sharp wit and extraordinary insight, Our Mother's Brief Affair considers the sweeping, surprising impact of indiscretions both large and small.

Our Mother's Brief Affair marks the 11th collaboration between Greenberg and Manhattan Theatre Club.

Additional casting, creative team, and other listings information for the production will be announced in the coming weeks.

MTC's 2015-2016 Broadway season will feature the Broadway premiere of Sam Shepard's Fool for Love starring Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell, directed by Daniel Aukin presented in association with Williamstown Theatre Festival and the New York premiere of Richard Greenberg's Our Mother's Brief Affair, directed by Lynne Meadow starring Linda Lavin. The 2015-2016 Off-Broadway season will includeDavid Lindsay-Abaire's new comedy Ripcord, directed by David Hyde Pierce starring Marylouise Burke and Mary Louise Wilson; the American premiere of Incognito written by Nick Payne, directed by Doug Hughes; and the new comedy Important Hats of the Twentieth Century written by Nick Jones, directed by Moritz Von Stuelpnagel.

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 six Pulitzer Prizes and 19 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 includeConstellations; Casa Valentina; Outside Mullingar; The Assembled Parties; Venus in Fur; Master Class; Good People; The Whipping Man; Time Stands Still; The Royal Family; Ruined; Come Back, Little Sheba; Blackbird; Shining City; Rabbit Hole; Doubt; Proof; The Tale of the Allergist's Wife; Love! Valour! Compassion!; A Small Family Business; Sylvia; Putting It Together; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Crimes of the Heart; and Ain't Misbehavin.' For more information on MTC, please visit www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com.

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