59E59 Theaters Announces Fall '07 Line-Up

According to Variety, Off-Broadway's 59E59 Theaters has announced its fall season.

Launching the season will be a production of Thomas Kilroy's The Shape of Metal, directed by Brian Murray and starring Roberta Maxwell (the two previously won Obie Awards for acting together in the 1977 David Rudkin play Ashes).  Concerning "a sculptor (Maxwell) and her daughter haunted by the mysterious disappearance of the sculptor's elder daughter," the play by Irish playwright Kilroy will be presented by Origin Theater Company and run from September 8th through 30th.

59E59 Theaters will also stage Flags, a new play by Jane Martin (Talking With...) running from September 12th through 30th.  Directed by Henry Wishcamper, it "uses the structure of Greek tragedy to chronicle a contemporary family faced with the death of a son in Iraq." It will be presented by Firefly Theater and star Chris Mulkey and Karen Landry.

Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre will present When the Messenger is Hot from October 3rd through 28th.  Adapted by Laura Eason from the book of short stories by Elizabeth Crane, it will run October 3rd through 28th.  The play, to be directed by Jessica Thebus, "centers on a phone call home from a mother thought dead."

This season, the theatre will also present: "The HG Wells Science Fiction Festival," running from October 10th through November 4th and featuring RadioTheater's radio play productions of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, Chicago Writers Theater's adaptation of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, running from November 1st through December 2nd, Merrimack Repertory's prodcution of Bob Clyman's drama Secret Order, playing from November 9th through December 9th, Parallel Exit's vaudeville revue Cut to the Chase, running from December 5th through 30th, and State of Play Theater's The City That Cried Wolf, described as "Brook Reeves' noir mystery about nursery rhyme characters," running from December 5th through 30th. 

Visit www.59e59.org for more information.

Photo of Brian Murray by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.