Lincoln Center Presents Rudnick's 'New Century' Spring 2008

Lincoln Center Theater will present The New Century, four short plays by Paul Rudnick, to be directed by Nicholas Martin, this spring in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.  Dates, cast and the design team for the production will be announced at a later date.

"The New Century is a series of four short plays, which feature everyone from a concerned Long Island mother of at least three gay children, to an accomplished Midwestern craftswoman, to one of Rudnick's favorites, Mr. Charles, a flamboyant resident of Palm Beach.  Ultimately, all of these delicious and distraught people collide under surprising and comic circumstances, and we discover just where our new century might be heading," describe press notes.

Paul Rudnick, who will be making his Lincoln Center Theater debut with this production,  is the author of the plays Regrets Only, Valhalla, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Mr. Charles – Currently of Palm Beach, Pride and Joy, I Hate Hamlet and Jeffrey, for which he won an Obie, an Outer Critics Circle Award and the John Gassner Playwrighting Award.  His novels, "Social Disease" and "I'll Take It" were both published by Knopf.  His screenplays include Addams Family Values, the screen adaptation of Jeffrey and In & Out.

Nicholas Martin returns to Lincoln Center Theater where he directed Frank MacGuiness's Observe The Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, John Guare's Chaucer in Rome and Arthur Laurents' The Time of the Cuckoo.  His Broadway and off-Broadway credits include Butley, Match, Hedda Gabler, Fully Committed, Full Gallop, Betty's Summer Vacation and Bosoms and Neglect.

Photo: Paul Rudnick (2007) by Genevieve Rafter Keddy