LCT to Present Cymbeline and The Glorious Ones

Lincoln Center Theater has announced its 2007 Fall season.  A new production of William Shakespeare's Cymbeline, directed by Mark Lamos, will begin performances in the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Thursday, November 1 and open on Sunday, December 2.  In the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater ,The Glorious Ones, a new musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, based on the novel by Francine Prose, directed and choreographed by Graciela Daniele, will begin performances on Thursday, October 11 and open on Monday, November 5.  Casting and designers for both productions will be announced at a later date.

William Shakespeare's romance Cymbeline, one of the final plays of the playwright's career, will be directed by Mark Lamos, who also directed LCT's production of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. Lamos' most recent LCT productions include Edward Albee's Seascape, Sheridan's The Rivals and A. R. Gurney's Big Bill.

Writer Lynn Ahrens, composer Stephen Flaherty and director/choreographer Graciela Daniele return to LCT with The Glorious Ones, a new musical based on the novel by Francine Prose concerning a 17th-century troupe of commedia dell'arte actors.  The team last collaborated at LCT on the musical Dessa Rose.  LCT also produced the Ahrens-Flaherty musicals A Man Of No Importance and My Favorite Year. Daniele has also directed and choreographed the LCT productions of Michael John LaChuisa's Bernarda Alba, Marie Christine and Hello, Again, William Finn's A New Brain and Elegies: A Song Cycle and Chronicle of A Death Foretold.

Currently in its 22nd year, Lincoln Center Theater's recent production of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia was recently nominated for 10 Tony Awards including Best Play, the most nominations ever received by a dramatic production in the history of the Tony Awards.  The trilogy also won the NY Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama-League Awards for Best Play.  In spring 2008, LCT will present a new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, directed by Bartlett Sher, the first Broadway production of the musical since its 1949 Broadway premiere, in the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Photos of 1) Mark Lamos; 2) Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty by Ben Strothmann