Yale Rep and Binger Center for New Theatre to Stage New Works

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director), the internationally celebrated professional theatre in residence at Yale School of Drama and champion of new work since its founding in 1966, marks the 2015-16 season with three world premiere productions at its home in New Haven and five Yale Rep-commissioned plays scheduled for runs in Los Angeles, La Jolla, and New York City.

NEW PLAYS AT YALE REP

Yale Rep's season officially opens tonight with the world premiere of Indecent, a new play with music written by Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel, created by Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman, and directed by Rebecca Taichman, October 2-24. Indecent, which was commissioned by Yale Rep and American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is a co-production with La Jolla Playhouse, where it will play November 13-December 10. The play will have its New York premiere at the Vineyard Theatre in spring/summer 2016.

Yale Rep's season continues with the world premieres of peerless, Jiehae Park's blistering contemporary comedy about ambitious twin sisters who will stop at nothing to get into the college of their choice, directed by Margot Bordelon, November 27-December 19; and Jen Silverman's The Moors, an absurdly funny new play inspired (perhaps) by the lives and writings of the most famous sisters of 19th-century literature, directed by Jackson Gay, January 29-February 20.

All three world premieres are produced with support from Yale's Binger Center for New Theatre.

NEW PLAYS FROM YALE REP ACROSS THE COUNTRY

The Yale Repertory Theatre production of These Paper Bullets!, by Rolin Jones, with songs by Billie Joe Armstrong, directed by Jackson Gay, is playing now at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles through October 18, after which it will enjoy its New York debut at the Atlantic Theater Company, November 20-January 10. Commissioned by Yale Rep, where it premiered in 2014, These Paper Bullets! already has been honored with five Connecticut Critics Circle Awards including Outstanding Production of a Play.

Sarah Ruhl's Dear Elizabeth, based on the correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, which was commissioned by and had its world premiere at Yale Rep in 2012, will make its New York debut at the Women's Project Theatre, October 26-December 5.

Familiar, Danai Gurira's Yale Rep-commissioned comedy-drama about a Zimbabwean-American family living in the Midwest, will have its New York debut at Playwrights Horizons February 12-March 27, directed by Rebecca Taichman, who staged the Yale Rep world premiere in 2015.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's War, also commissioned by Yale Rep, will next be seen in New York at Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3. The New York premiere will begin previews in May, directed by Lileana Blain Cruz, who staged the world premiere at Yale Rep in 2014.

Following its world premiere co-production at Yale Rep and La Jolla Playhouse this fall, Indecent, created by Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman, which was commissioned by Yale Rep and American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, will have its New York premiere at the Vineyard Theatre in spring/summer 2016.

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