Yale Rep Announces 2013-14 Season, Including Billie Joe Armstrong's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Musical

Yale Repertory Theatre (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director), dedicated to the production of new plays and bold interpretations of classics that make immediate connections to contemporary audiences, announces its 2013-14 season, which will begin with A Streetcar Named Desire, the Pulitzer Prize winning masterwork by Tennessee Williams, directed by Mark Rucker. OBIE Award winning resident director Evan Yionoulis will mark her thirteenth production at Yale Rep with Owners, the dark comedy by Caryl Churchill. Director Christopher Bayes and actor Steven Epp return for Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo.

The second half of the season continues with The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, a finalist for the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, by Meg Miroshnik. The world premiere of These Paper Bullets brings back Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award nominated writer Rolin Jones and director Jackson Gay for this adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, featuring new songs by Grammy Award winning Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong. And poet-playwright Marcus Gardley will premiere his new play, The House that will not Stand, directed by Patricia McGregor.

"Yale Rep's 2013-14 season offers an astonishing lineup of writers and gifted theatre artists who will bring their words to life. It's a season that stretches across continents and centuries, and offers poignant, funny, and often chilling glimpses of our shared humanity," says Artistic Director James Bundy. "I'm delighted to welcome back artists such as Mark Rucker, Evan Yionoulis, Christopher Bayes, and Steven Epp, whose work is well known already to many Yale Rep audience members; and I'm thrilled to introduce exciting new work by Meg Miroshnik, Rolin Jones, Billie Joe Armstrong, Jackson Gay, Marcus Gardley, and Patricia McGregor."

ABOUT THE 2013-14 SEASON

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Mark Rucker
September 20-October 12, 2013
Opening Night: September 26
University Theatre (222 York Street)

In the steamy French Quarter of New Orleans, an electrifying battle of wills ignites between Southern Belle Blanche DuBois and her working class brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski. Nerves fraying and beauty fading, Blanche is both repelled and intrigued by Stanley's primal brutishness-even as he threatens to reveal her darkest secrets and destroy her illusions.
Yale Repertory Theatre's first ever production of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire, is staged by Mark Rucker, whose eight previous shows at Yale Rep include Tom Stoppard's Rough Crossing in 2008.

OWNERS
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by Evan Yionoulis
October 25-November 16, 2013
Opening Night: October 31
Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street)

Her husband wants her dead, but Marion's too busy to notice. The North London real estate market is booming, and she's out to make a killing. Her loyal young protégée-a would-be suicide who can't quite seal the deal-is happy to do her dirty work until he gets a better offer. When Marion discovers she can't buy out a family from one of her properties, she instead takes ownership of their most prized possession.
Staged by OBIE Award winning resident director Evan Yionoulis (2013's Stones in His Pockets by Marie Jones), Owners is the savagely funny play by groundbreaking English playwright Caryl Churchill, author of Cloud Nine and Top Girls.

ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST
By Dario Fo
Directed by Christopher Bayes
Featuring Steven Epp
November 30-December 21, 2013
Opening Night: December 6
Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street)

Did he fall? Or was he pushed? Only one man can cut through massive bureaucratic duplicity and reveal what happened to the suspected anarchist who died at the bottom of a fourth-floor police station window. In a world of commonplace deception and organized corruption, he stands as a bastion of honor and justice-he also happens to be a notorious liar, quick-change con artist, and certified maniac.

The duo behind Yale Rep's uproarious The Servant of Two Masters and A Doctor in Spite of Himself-director Christopher Bayes and actor Steven Epp, playing the Maniac-return with a new production of Noble Prize winning Italian playwright Dario Fo's explosive political farce.

THE FAIRYTALE LIVES OF RUSSIAN GIRLS
By Meg Miroshnik
January 31-February 22, 2014
Opening Night: February 6
Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street)

Once upon a time-in 2005-a twenty-year-old girl named Annie returned to her native Russia to brush up on the language and lose her American accent. Underneath a glamorous Post-Soviet Moscow studded with dangerously high heels, designer bags, and luxe fur coats, she discovers an enchanted motherland teeming with evil stepmothers, wicked witches, and ravenous bears. Annie must learn how to become the heroine of a story more mysterious and treacherous than any childhood fairytale: her own.
Whiting Writers' Award winner Meg Miroshnik is making her Yale Rep debut. Her play The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls was a finalist for the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

World Premiere
THESE PAPER BULLETS
Adapted by Rolin Jones
From William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
Songs by Billie Joe Armstrong
Directed by Jackson Gay
March 14-April 5, 2014
Opening Night: March 20
University Theatre (222 York Street)

Meet the Quartos. Ben, Claude, Balth, and Pedro. Their fans worship them. Scotland Yard fears them. And their former drummer will stop at nothing to destroy them. Can these fab four from Liverpool find true love in London and cut an album in seven nights? These Paper Bullets is a rocking and rolling version of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing with a serious backbeat.
Adapted by Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award nominated writer Rolin Jones (Friday Night Lights, Weeds) and featuring new songs by Grammy Award winning Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, who wrote the Tony Award winning musical American Idiot, These Paper Bullets is directed by Jackson Gay, who stagEd Jones's The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow at Yale Rep in 2004.

Please note: These Paper Bullets is Yale Rep's 2013-2014 Will Power! production. The run includes three 10:30AM performances on April 1, 2, and 3, 2014, available only to 9th-12th grade school groups. For information on Will Power! performances, please contact Ruth M. Feldman at (203) 432-8425 or rm.feldman@yale.edu.