Second Stage Theatre has announced three plays for its upcoming 2006-07 season. A fourth production is still to be announced.
For its 28th season, the award-winning off-Broadway company will continue to present new plays by American playwrights as well as second stagings of contemporary theatre. The season will kick off on September 6 with the first New York restaging of
Eric Bogosian's 1994 play
subUrbia, directed by Second Stage Artistic Associate Jo Bonney (who staged
A Soldier's Play and
Living Out for Second Stage).
Terrence McNally's
Some Men, a new play with music, will have its New York premiere later in the fall, beginning performances on November 21. And Theresa Rebeck, whose play
The Water's Edge is the final mainstage production of the current season, will kick off 2007 with the New York premiere of her new play,
The Scene, which recently received a critically acclaimed world premiere staging at the Humana Festival. Previews are scheduled to begin on February 6.
subUrbia, written by Bogosian (
Talk Radio, Humpty Dumpty) and directed by Bonney, will run from September 6 – October 29. "
Eric Bogosian's groundbreaking and bitterly funny play
subUrbia examines a day in the life of seven rootless young Americans who gather in the parking lot of a Pakistani family's convenience store," state press notes. The play, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theatre in 1994, will be updated for this production.
Some Men, by McNally (Tony Award-winner for
Master Class, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Ragtime, Kiss of the Spider Woman), will run from November 21 – January 14. A director has not yet been announced. "In
Some Men, a new play with music, McNally highlights the moments when guests, gathered together at a gay wedding ceremony, found true love in their own lives and celebrates the century of change that has brought them to this point."
The Scene, penned by Rebeck (
The Family of Mann, Loose Knit, Spike Heels), will be presented from February 6 – April 1. A director has yet to be announced. "Using the surreal world of Manhattan party-goers as its background, The Scene is a shrewd and bitter comedy about the empty narcissism of American pop culture."
A fourth spring production is still to be announced.
"Founded in 1979 under the leadership of Artistic Director Carole Rothman, Second Stage Theatre produces a diverse range of premieres and new interpretations of America's best contemporary theatre." Recent hits include
William Finn and
Rachel Sheinkin's
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (now playing on Broadway) and
Douglas Carter Beane's
The Little Dog Laughed, which is slated to transfer to Broadway during the 2006-2007 season. The company's more than 125 citations include the 2002 Tony Award for Best Director of a Play (Mary Zimmerman for
Metamorphoses), the 2002 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work, 23 OBIE Awards, 4 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 2 Clarence Derwent Awards, 9 Drama Desk Awards, 5 Theatre World Awards, 9 Lucille Lortel Awards, the Drama Critics Circle Award, and 11 AUDELCO awards.
In addition, the company's Second Stage Theatre Uptown series will continue this summer with two new productions: Anton Dudley's
Getting Home, directed by David Schweizer, and Rajiv Joseph's
All This Intimacy, directed by Giovanna Sardelli. Both productions will be presented at Second Stage Theatre's uptown home, the McGinn/Cazale Theatre on Broadway at 76th Street.
Getting Home will run June 5 – July 1; opening night is Wednesday, June 14.
All This Intimacy will run July 17 – August 12; opening night is Thursday, July 27.
For subscription or ticket information, please call the Second Stage Box Office at 212-246-4422. All productions are staged at Second Stage Theatre, 307 West 43rd Street (just west of Eighth Avenue). Visit
www.secondstagetheatre.com for more information.
