Catch a preview of Playwrights Horizons’ upcoming 2012/13 season from the featured playwrights themselves and hear the backstories of each production’s journey to the stage. Moderated by Michael Schulman of The New Yorker.
2012/13 Season
Detroit
New York Premiere. Pulitzer Prize finalist. By Obie Award winner Lisa D'Amour (Nita & Zita)
The Whale
New York Premiere. By Obie Award winner Samuel D. Hunter (A Bright New Boise)
The Great God Pan
World Premiere. By Obie Award winner Amy Herzog (After the Revolution; 4000 Miles)
The Flick
World Premiere. By Obie Award winner Annie Baker (Circle Mirror Transformation; The Aliens)
The Call
World Premiere. By Tanya Barfield (Blue Door)
Far From Heaven: A New Musical
World Premiere. Book by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out; Three Days of Rain). Music by Tony Award nominee Scott Frankel (Grey Gardens). Lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korle (Grey Gardens).
For more information on Playwrights Horizons’ 2012/13 season, please click here.
Tickets $15.
Brief Bio
Playwrights Horizons is a writer’s theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers and lyricists and to the production of their new work. Under the leadership of artistic director Tim Sanford and managing director Leslie Marcus, the theater company continues to encourage the new work of veteran writers while nurturing an emerging generation of theater artists. In its 40 years, Playwrights Horizons has presented the work of more than 375 writers and has received numerous awards and honors, including a special 2008 Drama Desk Award for “ongoing support to generations of theater artists and undiminished commitment to producing new work.” Notable productions include five Pulitzer Prize winners: Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park (2011 winner), Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife (2004 Tony Award, Best Play), Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles (1989 Tony Award, Best Play), Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George – as well as Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation (three 2010 Obie Awards including Best New American Play), Bathsheba Doran’s Kin, Adam Bock’s A Small Fire, Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I, Melissa James Gibson’s This (2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist), Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie’s Grey Gardens (three 2007 Tony Awards), Craig Lucas’s Prayer For My Enemy and Small Tragedy (2004 Obie Award, Best American Play), Adam Rapp’s Kindness, Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation (2005 Obie Award for Playwriting), Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero, David Greenspan’s She Stoops to Comedy (2003 Obie Award), Kirsten Childs’s The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (2000 Obie Award), Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey’s James Joyce’s The Dead, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins, William Finn’s March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, Christopher Durang’s Betty’s Summer Vacation and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Richard Nelson’s Goodnight Children Everywhere, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s Once on This Island, Jon Robin Baitz’s The Substance of Fire, Scott McPherson’s Marvin’s Room, A.R. Gurney’s Later Life, Adam Guettel and Tina Landau’s Floyd Collins and Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s Violet. Playwrights Horizons was founded in 1971 by Robert Moss, before moving to 42nd Street where it has been instrumental in the revitalization of Theatre Row. André Bishop served as Artistic Director from 1981 to 1991, followed by Don Scardino, who served through 1995. Playwrights’ auxiliary programs include the Playwrights Horizons Theater School, which is affiliated with NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and Ticket Central, a central box office that supports the Off-Broadway performing arts community.