Mason, Keenan-Bolger, Bogart Added to Playwrights Season
By: BWW News Desk May. 07, 2007
Playwrights Horizons, under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, has announced new details for three productions of its 2007/2008 Season, including the first casting news:
Four-time Academy Award nominee, two-time Golden Globe winner and stage veteran Marsha Mason (Oscar nominations for The Goodbye Girl, Cinderella Liberty, Only When I Laugh and Chapter Two; on Broadway in The Good Doctor, The Night of the Iguana and Steel Magnolias) will star in the World Premiere of A Feminine Ending, a new play by Sarah Treem (Mirror, Mirror; Empty Sky). Directed by Tony Award winner Blair Brown (James Joyce's The Dead, Copenhagen), it will begin performances in October 2007.Tony Award-nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Les Miserables) will star in the World Premiere of Saved, a new musical with music and lyrics by Michael Friedman (The Civilians, Romeo & Juliet for Shakespeare in the Park this summer) and book and lyrics by 2-time Olivier Award nominee John Dempsey (The Witches of Eastwick) and Obie Award winner Rinne Groff (The Ruby Sunrise, "Weeds"), based on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture written by Brian Dannelly and Michael Urban. Directed by Gary Griffin (The Color Purple), it will begin performances in Spring 2008.
Two-time Obie Award winner Anne Bogart (Artistic Director of SITI Company) will direct the New York premiere of Dead Man's Cell Phone, a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House). Performances will begin in Winter/Spring 2008.
Additional casting for the season will be announced in the coming months.
In addition to A Feminine Ending, Saved and Dead Man's Cell Phone, the 2007-2008 Season will also include the following three previously-announced productions: the world premiere of Kate Fodor's 100 Saints You Should Know, beginning previews on August 24th; the world premiere of Jordan Harrison's Doris to Darlene: A Cautionary Valentine; and the New York City premiere of Adam Bock's The Drunken City.
Visit www.playwrightshorizons.org for more information.
Photo of Celia Keenan-Bolger by Linda Lenzi
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