Photo Flash: Lincoln Center Theater Premieres HOW TO TRANSCEND A HAPPY MARRIAGE

LCT's production of How to Transcend a Happy Marriage begins performances on February 23rd at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (150 West 65th Street). At a dinner party in the wilds of New Jersey, two married couples discuss a younger acquaintance - a polyamorous woman who also hunts her own meat. Fascinated, they invite this mysterious woman and her two live-in boyfriends to a New Year's Eve party, which alters the course of their lives. How to Transcend a Happy Marriage asks: how much love can a twosome contain? What are the limits of friendship, and what happens when parents who have forgotten their own wildness have a wild rumpus all their own?

THE MITZI E. NEWHOUSE THEATER
150 West 65th Street

Previews: Thursday, Februaury 23, 2017
Opening: Monday, March 20, 2017
Through Sunday, May 7, 2017

Cast:
Lena Hall, Brian Hutchison, David McElwee, Omar Metwally,Naian Gonz·lez Norvind, Austin Smith, Marisa Tomei, Robin Weigert

Sarah Ruhl returns to Lincoln Center Theater where her plays The Oldest Boy; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist); and The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize) were produced. Other plays include For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday; Stage Kiss; Dear Elizabeth; Passion Play, a cycle (Pen American Award, The Fourth Freedom Forum Playwriting Award from The Kennedy Center); Dead Man's Cell Phone (Helen Hayes Award); Melancholy Play; Eurydice; Orlando; and Late: a cowboy song. Her plays have been produced around the country and internationally, translated into fourteen languages. Her book of essays, 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, was published by Faber and Faber. Awards: Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award, Whiting Writers' Award, MacArthur Fellowship, Lily Award, PEN Center Award for a mid-career playwright. Education: M.F.A., Brown University (with Paula Vogel). She is an alumna of New Dramatists and 13P, and teaches at the Yale School of Drama.

Rebecca Taichman directed Sarah Ruhl's The Oldest Boy at Lincoln Center Theater, as well as the LCT3 production of The Luck of the Irish. She is directing the upcoming Broadway production of Indecent by Paula Vogel, which she also directed Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre. Other Off-Broadway credits include Familiar, Stage Kiss, Milk Like Sugar (Playwrights Horizons); Orlando (CSC); Orpheus (New York City Opera); Dark Sisters (Music Theatre Group, Gotham Opera); Rappaccini's Daughter (Gotham Chamber Opera); The Scene (Second Stage, Humana); and Menopausal Gentleman (Ohio Theatre). Regionally, Rebecca's work has been seen at Yale Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Old Globe, ART, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter, and Woolly Mammoth, among others. She is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

Photo Credit: Kyle Froman

Omar Metwally, Marisa Tomei, Lena Hall, Austin Smith, and David McElwee
Marisa Tomei
Marisa Tomei and Lena Hall
Marisa Tomei, Omar Metwally, Robin Weigert, and Brian Hutchison