LCT3 Announces THE COWARD 11/8 & WHEN I COME TO DIE 1/31
By: Gabrielle Sierra Jun. 14, 2010
LCT3, Lincoln Center Theater's programming initiative devoted to producing the work of new artists and developing new audiences, has announced the first two productions of its 2010-2011 season: the world premieres of THE COWARD, a new play by Nick Jones, directed by Sam Gold and WHEN I COME TO DIE, a new play by Nathan Louis Jackson, directed by Thomas Kail. Both productions will be presented at The Duke on 42nd Street, a New 42nd Street® project (229 West 42 Street). A third LCT3 production will be announced at a later date.
THE COWARD, which begins performances Monday, November 8, running through Saturday, December 4, with an opening night scheduled for Monday, November 22, is a period comedy set in 18th century England. A cowardly young gentleman named Lucidis initiates a pistol duel then finds that he can't go through with it. So he hires a common criminal to fight in his place, only to have the scoundrel make a bloody mess of things. As duel follows duel with many shots fired, this coward finds his reputation growing beyond his wildest expectations. Playwright Nick Jones is a playwright, director, puppet designer and performer. His show Jollyship the Whiz-Bang originally produced at Ars Nova was recently revived for the Under the Radar Festival at the Public. He has performed music or theater at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Arts TBA Festival, the Dublin Fringe Festival, The Kitchen, P.S. 122, The Public and the Edinburgh Fringe. Sam Gold directed the critically acclaimed productions of Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons) and The Aliens (Rattlestick Theater). His work has also been seen at the New York Theatre Workshop, Studio Dante, the Cherry Lane and the Ohio Theater. He has developed plays at many theatres nationally including ACT, MCC, MTC, Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, The Public, Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Yale Repertory Theater.Founded in 1990, The New 42nd Street, Inc. is an independent, nonprofit organization charged with long-term responsibility for seven historic theaters on 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. In addition to running The New Victory, The New 42nd Street, Inc. built and operates the New 42nd Street® Studios - a ten-story building of rehearsal studios, offices and a 200-seat theater named The Duke on 42nd Street - for national and international performing arts companies. Since its opening on June 21, 2000, the New 42nd Street®Studios has been fully occupied by both nonprofit and commercial theater, dance and opera companies. With these institutions and the other properties under its guardianship, The New 42nd Street, Inc. plays a pivotal role in fostering the continued revival of this famous street at the Crossroads of the World. About the theater: The Duke on 42nd Street
The Duke on 42nd Street is an intimate 200-seat black box theater built and operated by The New 42nd Street, Inc. Since opening in 2000, the theater has been available to international and domestic nonprofit organizations to present their work. Companies that have presented at The Duke on 42nd StreetSM theater include: Harkness Dance Project; The NYC Tap Festival; Rosie's Broadway Kids; Playwrights Horizons; London's National Theatre; Theatre for a New Audience, which continues to present work on a regular basis; Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3, which is entering into its third season, and The New 42nd Street's "New Victory at The Duke" series. Companies presented by The New 42nd Street have included: Karole Armitage; Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Naked Angels, The Classical Theatre of Harlem, and Steppenwolf Theater Company.
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