SATURN RETURNS Opens at Lincoln Center Theater 11/10

Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) will present the official opening of SATURN RETURNS, a new play by Noah Haidle, directed by Nicholas Martin on Monday, November 10th 2008. Performances began Thursday, October 16. The cast of four features Rosie Benton, Robert Eli, John McMartin and James Rebhorn.

The planet Saturn's orbital return to its position at the moment of a person's birth happens every thirty years.  In SATURN RETURNS playwright Noah Haidle uses this phenomenon to take a look at one man - Gustin (to be played at three different stages of his life by Robert Eli, John McMartin and James Rebhorn) - during these pivotal moments as he confronts the three women in his life (all to be played by Rosie Benton).

SATURN RETURNS has sets by Ralph Funicello, costumes by Robert Morgan, lighting by Peter Kaczorowski and original music and sound design by Mark Bennett.

Playwright Noah Haidle is the author of the plays Persephone, directed by Nicholas Martin at Boston's Huntington Theater, Vigils, produced at Chicago's Goodman Theater and Washington, D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Mr. Marmalade, seen in New York at the Roundabout Theatre after premiering at the South Coast Rep in Costa Mesa, Ca.,  Princess Marjorie, which also premiered at the South Coast Rep and Rag and Bone, produced by the Long Wharf Theatre.

Nicholas Martin, Artistic Director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival,  returns to Lincoln Center Theater where he directed last season's production of Paul Rudnick's The New Century  as well as Frank McGuinness' Observe The Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, John Guare's Chaucer in Rome  and Arthur Laurent's The Time of the Cuckoo.  His  Broadway credits include Butley, Match, Hedda Gabler and The Rehearsal.

SATURN RETURNS will be performed Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8pm, with matinees Wednesday and Saturdays at 2pm and Sundays at 3pm (there is no Saturday matinee on Oct. 18 ).  Tickets will be available beginning Monday, October 6, at the Lincoln Center Theater Box Office, at Tele-charge.com (212-239-6200) or by visiting www.lct.org.

In addition to SATURN RETURNS, Lincoln Center Theater will also be presenting, by arrangement with Primary Stages, Horton Foote's critically acclaimed play Dividing The Estate, directed by Michael Wilson, on Broadway beginning Thursday, October 20 at the Booth Theatre, while its Tony Award winning production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific continues its record-breaking run at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center.  This fall Lincoln Center Theater will also inaugurate LCT3, a new programming initiative devoted to the work of emerging playwrights, directors and designers.   LCT3's first production, Clay, a one-man, hip-hop musical written and performed by Matt Sax and directed by Eric Rosen, will begin a five week engagement on Monday, October 6 at the Duke on 42nd Street.

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