NYTW's 2008/2009 Season

BEAST Written by Michael Weller
Directed by Jo Bonney
August 29 – October 12, 2008

An acclaimed writer for both stage and screen, Academy Award-nominee Michael Weller’s (Moonchildren, Spoils of War, Loose Ends, the screenplay for Ragtime) newest comedy is a blood-red road adventure directed by Jo Bonney (Fat Pig, The Seven). In Beast, two Iraqi War veterans—badly mutilated but as fiercely patriotic as ever—make their way home from a military hospital in Germany. Their marauding adventure across America takes them to Crawford, Texas, where they meet up with their Commander-in-Chief and offer a surefire solution to all his problems.

C.I.C.T./Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord’s
THE GRAND INQUISITOR
From Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
Adapted by Marie-Hélène Estienne
Featuring Bruce Myers
Directed by Peter Brook
October 22 – November 23, 2008

Renowned director Peter Brook (Marat/Sade, The Mahabharata) continues his long time collaboration with the renowned actor Bruce Myers (The Mahabharata, The Unbearable Lightness of Being) in Marie-Hélène Estienne’s (French version of Far Away) adaptation of the Inquisitor section of The Brothers Karamazov. Together, they bring Dostoyevsky’s chilling parable about the perversion of religious faith to life.

The Grand Inquisitor is a co-presentation with Theatre for a New Audience. As it is a strictly limited engagement, single tickets will be in short supply and your membership with New York Theatre Workshop or subscription with Theatre for a New Audience guarantees that you won’t be shut out of a truly unique theatrical event.

Join NYTW today and receive the exclusive opportunity to buy a 2-play or 3-play subscription to Theatre for a New Audience for only $85 or $110. Both subscriptions include Edward Bond’s Chair, directed by Robert Woodruff and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet featuring Christian Camargo; the 3-play subscription also includes Othello, directed by Arin Arbus, Theatre for a New Audience’s Associate Artistic Director. This is a one time offer only available to NYTW members.”

THINGS OF DRY HOURS
Written by Naomi Wallace
Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Spring 2009

Recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and an OBIE Award, among many other awards, playwright and poet Naomi Wallace (The Fever Chart, One Flea Spare) follows up the NYTW production of Trestle at Pope Lick Creek with this powerful and poetic examination of the unintended conflict between race and ideology. In Depression-era Alabama, black Sunday school teacher and Communist Party member Tice Hogan lives on the edge of trouble. When a white factory worker on the run demands sanctuary, Tice and his daughter Cali may be pushed over that edge. Award-winning actor/writer/producer Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Lackawanna Blues, and Tony Award-winner for Seven Guitars) directs.

OFF AGAIN: The Off-Broadway Musical Series

Stemming directly from our mission to produce work by artists whose visions provoke and challenge all of us, OFF AGAIN will examine the history of Off-Broadway musicals as a body of work and their impact over time. While exact titles and dates are still being determined, NYTW plans to hold a concert series of two or three musicals that represent a diversity of artists, forms, and traditional notions of “success.” The concerts will have short runs. Currently under consideration are: Promenade (1969), written by Maria Irene Fornes and composed by Al Carmines; Iphigenia in Concert by Peter Link, which will be directed by Annie Dorsen (Passing Strange); and The Waves, written by Lisa Peterson (based on Virginia Woolf’s The Waves) and composed by David Bucknam.

The 2008/09 Season will be the inaugural year for what NYTW plans to be an ongoing annual series. Please note: OFF AGAIN is not part of the 3-Play Member package and SmartPass tickets will not be valid for these performances. All NYTW Members and SmartPass holders will receive an exclusive opportunity to purchase tickets at a discounted price before they go on sale to the general public.

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