Second Stage Adds 'Good Boys & True' to Season, Ellis Directs

Second Stage Theatre has announced that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's new play, Good Boys and True, will be the third production of its current season.  Directed by Tony Award-nominee Scott Ellis, Good Boys and True will begin previews in late April and will officially open in mid-May.

Second Stage Theatre first worked with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa when they produced his drama, The Mystery Plays, in the Second Stage Uptown series during the summer of 2004. Following that, Roberto was the NEA/TCG Playwright-in-Residence at Second Stage Theatre during the 2004 and 2005 seasons and is currently part of the Time Warner Commissioning Program at Second Stage Theatre.

"Against a backdrop of 1980's privilege and power, a disturbing scandal at an all-boys prep school forces a mother to confront the truth about her son and herself in Good Boys and True, a new play by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Based on a Totally True Story, HBO's "Big Love"), directed by Tony Award-nominee Scott Ellis (Curtains, The Little Dog Laughed, Twelve Angry Men). As the scandal unexpectedly twists and turns, mother and son find themselves contending with unforeseen and long-concealed secrets that threaten to destroy both school and family," explain press notes.

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A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's many plays include The Muckle Man (City Theatre in Pittsburgh), Dark Matters (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Based on a Totally True Story (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Mystery Plays (Yale Rep/Second Stage Theatre), The Velvet Sky (Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C.), Rough Magic (Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York), and The Weird (an evening of short pulpy plays at Dad's Garage Theatre in Atlanta). His early comedies Golden Age and Say You Love Satan were both nominated for GLAAD Media Awards and have been performed around the country. For Marvel Comics, he is the Harvey Award-winning author of such titles as Angel: Revelations and The Dead of Night: Man-Thing. Most recently, he joined the writing staff of HBO's acclaimed series Big Love and developed a television series about werewolves, Howl, for the Fox Network.

Director Scott Ellis returns to Second Stage Theatre where he has staged many productions, including last season's critically acclaimed Broadway transfer The Little Dog Laughed, as well as That Championship Season, the company's first production in its 43^rd street home.  Mr. Ellis' many Broadway productions include Curtains, Twelve Angry Men, Arthur Miller's The Man Who Had All the Luck with Chris O'Donnell, The Boys from Syracuse, The Rainmaker with Woody Harrelson and Jayne Atkinson, 1776 (Drama Desk, Tony nomination), She Loves Me (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Tony nomination), A Month in the Country with Helen Mirren, Steel Pier (Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Tony nominations).  Recent off-Broadway work includes Entertaining Mr. Sloane with Alec Baldwin and The Waverly Gallery with Eileen Heckert.