New York Theatre Workshop Announces 2010-2011 Subscriber Season

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo, have announced that the theatre's 2010-2011subscriber season will include:
Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, starring Elizabeth Marvel and directed by Ivo van Hove;
Peter and the Starcatchers, a new play by Rick Elice, directed by Roger Rees and?Alex Timbers, based upon the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson; Three Pianos, written, arranged, and performed by Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy, and Dave Malloy, and directed by Rachel Chavkin; and a fourth production to be announced in the coming weeks.

Claudia Shear's Restoration, currently in rehearsals under the direction of Christopher Ashley, begins previews at NYTW April 30 and opens May 19.

The Little Foxes
Written by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Ivo van Hove
September - October 2010

The notoriously provocative director Ivo van Hove returns to NYTW to take on The Little Foxes, one of Lillian Hellman's most well-known plays, starring his frequent collaborator Elizabeth Marvel. A startlingly original play (also known from the Hollywood film starring Bette Davis), The Little Foxes is a timely study of greed, dishonesty, and one generation's unstoppable drive to ruthlessly exploit the resources of a previous generation. This is the sixth collaboration between NYTW and Flemish director Ivo van Hove-past collaborations have included Eugene O'Neill's More Stately Mansions, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and Molière's The Misanthrope.

Peter and the Starcatchers
Written by Rick Elice
Directed by Roger Rees and?Alex Timbers
Based upon the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
February - March 2011

Rick Elice, co-writer of the Tony® Award-winning Jersey Boys and The Addams Family, along with actor/director/author Roger Rees, probably best known for his Tony® Award-winning performance in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, and OBIE Award-winning director Alex Timbers, founder and artistic director of Les Freres Corbusier and director of the highly-acclaimed Public Theater production of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, have created an imaginative new play based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers. In it a company of twelve actors plays some 50 characters-all on a journey to answer the century-old question: How did Peter become The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up?

Three Pianos
Written, arranged, and performed by Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy, and Dave Malloy
Directed by Rachel Chavkin
TBA

Three Pianos-the hit music-theater event that wowed audiences and critics alike in its sold-out run at the Ontological Theater in March-is a theatrical explosion of Franz Schubert's Winterreise song cycle. Filled with fantastical touches and inventive arrangements, Three Pianos is a colorful and imaginative evening of chaos that explores Schubert's music, life, and times. Written, arranged, and performed by Rick Burkhardt (Nonsense Company), Alec Duffy (Hoi Polloi) and Dave Malloy (Banana Bag & Bodice), the play is set in a rustic cabin on a blustery winter night where three friends-each manning a piano-lead the audience through their respective passions for Winterreise, Schubert's famous song cycle on winter heartbreak - performing the songs, grappling with fundamental questions about the nature of music, slipping into the skins of Schubert and friends during one of their famous "Schubertiads," and drinking way too much. Compositional mayhem, shifting rivalries, and some unfortunate butchery of the German language ensue.

New York Theatre Workshop, now celebrating its 26th season, is a leading voice in the world of Off-Broadway and within the theatre community in New York and around the world. NYTW has emerged as a premiere incubator of important new theatre, honoring its mission to explore perspectives on our collective history and respond to the events and institutions that shape our lives. In addition, NYTW is known for its innovative adaptations of classic repertory. Each season, from its home in New York's East Village neighborhood, NYTW presents three to five new productions, over 80 readings, and numerous workshop productions, for over 45,000 audience members. Over the past 26 years, NYTW has developed and produced over 100 new, fully staged works, including Jonathan Larson's Rent, Tony Kushner's Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul, Doug Wright's Quills, Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde, Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Valhalla, and Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, Far Away, and A Number. The 2002 remounting of Martha Clarke's seminal work Vienna: Lusthaus and subsequent American tour was one of the longest-running productions in NYTW's history. NYTW supports artists in all stages of their careers by maintaining a series of workshop programs including work-in-progress readings, summer residencies, and minority artist fellowships. In 1991, NYTW received an OBIE Award for Sustained Achievement and in 2000 was designated to be part of the Leading National Theatres Program by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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