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| MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB AT MTC’S FRIEDMAN THEATRE AT MTC AT NEW YORK CITY CENTER – STAGE I AT MTC AT NEW YORK CITY CENTER – STAGE II Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) is pleased to announce news for their upcoming Spring 2009 season including additional casting for ACCENT ON YOUTH at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, casting for the world premiere of RUINED at New York City Center- Stage I, and the announcement of the world premiere of HUMOR ABUSE at New York City Center – Stage II. The announcement of HUMOR ABUSE completes MTC’s slate of four productions this spring, which, in addition to ACCENT ON YOUTH and RUINED, includes the upcoming Broadway premiere of Richard Greenberg’s THE AMERICAN PLAN starring Benjamin Eakeley (Sweeney Todd), Austin Lysy (‘Lysander’ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at NYSF), Outer Critics Circle Award winner Brenda Pressley (The First Breeze of Summer), Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominee Lily Rabe, and Tony® and Academy Award® winner Mercedes Ruehl. The limited engagement, directed by Tony Award® nominee David Grindley (Journey’s End) will begin previews at MTC’s Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) on Tuesday, January 2 and open Thursday, January 22. ACCENT ON YOUTH The upcoming Broadway production of Samson Raphaelson’s ACCENT ON YOUTH will feature the previously announced Tony nominee Charles Kimbrough and Tony® and Emmy® winner David Hyde Pierce. Pierce and Kimbrough will be joined by Theatre World Award winner and Drama Desk Award nominee Lisa Banes (Arcadia), Mary Catherine Garrison who previously appeared in MTC’s critically lauded productions of Top Girls and Rabbit Hole, and Byron Jennings who returns to MTC after appearing in the Tony-nominated revival of Sight Unseen. The production will be directed by Tony Award® winner Daniel Sullivan (Rabbit Hole, Sight Unseen, Proof). Additional casting for the nine-person cast will be announced in the coming weeks. ACCENT ON YOUTH will begin previews on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 for a Wednesday, April 29, 2009 opening in a limited engagement at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). ACCENT ON YOUTH is a rollicking salute to love’s possibilities, both on stage and off. Successful playwright Steven Gaye (Pierce) is about to abandon his latest script, when his young secretary (Garrison) offers him new inspiration. With her as his muse, he stages the show on Broadway, only to learn, to his dismay, that the show’s young leading man is being inspired by her too. The creative team for ACCENT ON YOUTH includes John Lee Beatty (scenic design), Jane Greenwood (costume design), Brian MacDevitt (lighting design), and Obadiah Eaves (sound design). BIOGRAPHIES FOR ACCENT ON YOUTH MARY CATHERINE GARRISON (Linda Brown) is returning to MTC after starring in last season’s critically acclaimed revival of Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls and David Lindsay-Abaire’s 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole. Her other theatre credits include Crimes of the Heart (Primary Stages); the critically acclaimed downtown hit Debbie Does Dallas, directed by Erica Schmidt; Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme in the Tony-Award-winning Assassins, The Foreigner, opposite Matthew Broderick, and The Man Who Came to Dinner (all at Roundabout). She appeared as Mandy Moore’s sister in the New Line Cinema feature How To Deal and also had a role in Brad Silberling's Moonlight Mile. Her television credits include lead roles on “Inconceivable” (NBC) and “The Partners” (ABC), as well as guest appearances on “Law & Order,” “Third Watch,” “Lipstick Jungle,” and “The Flight of the Conchords.” Raised in New Orleans, LA, Garrison has a bachelor of fine arts degree in Theatre from the University of Evansville and a master of fine arts degree in Acting from the University of California at San Diego. BYRON JENNINGS (Frank Galloway). Broadway: Macbeth; Is He Dead?; Inherit the Wind; Noises Off; Heartbreak House, A Touch of the Poet, Twelve Angry Men, The Man Who Came to Dinner, and A Month in the Country (Roundabout); Henry IV, Dinner at Eight, The Invention of Love, and Carousel (LCT); Sight Unseen (MTC). Off-Broadway: The Foreigner (Roundabout); Dealer’s Choice (MTC); Waste, Don Juan (TFANA); Stuff Happens, The Merchant of Venice, On the Open Road, Pericles (Public). TICKETING INFORMATION FOR ACCENT ON YOUTH:
Performance schedule will be announced shortly. RUINED The MTC and Goodman Theatre world premiere co-production of Lynn Nottage’s RUINED confirms the critically acclaimed cast from Chicago will appear at MTC at New York City Center – Stage I (131 West 55th Street). The cast for the MTC run will include: Quincy Tyler Bernstine (The Misanthrope at NYTW), Cherise Boothe (King Hedley II at Signature), Chris Chalk (MTC’s Defiance), Saidah Arrika Ekulona (Well on Broadway, Fabulation) William Jackson Harper (Queens Boulevard), Chiké Johnson (The Crucible at Steppenwolf), Russell Gebert Jones (Our Lady of 121st Street), two-time Emmy® Award winner Kevin Mambo (“The Guiding Light”), Tom Mardirosian (Wonderful Town, HBO’s “Oz”), and Condola Rashad (Pearl at The Kennedy Center). RUINED is currently playing an extended engagement at the Goodman’s Owen Theatre where it opened to rave reviews for Nottage’s play, the ensemble cast, and director Kate Whoriskey. After the Chicago run ends on Sunday, December 14, the production will come to MTC at New York City Center – Stage I (131 West 55th Street) where the limited engagement will begin previews on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 and open Tuesday, February 10, 2009. From Lynn Nottage, the Obie Award-winning author of such plays as Fabulation and Intimate Apparel and director Kate Whoriskey (Fabulation), comes this haunting, probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war. Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, this powerful play follows Mama Nadi (Ekulona), a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. But is she protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on a human life? TICKETING INFORMATION FOR RUINED
Performance schedule will be announced shortly. HUMOR ABUSE Manhattan Theatre Club is pleased to announce the world premiere of HUMOR ABUSE, the new one-man-show created by performer Lorenzo Pisoni (Equus, Last Dance) and director Erica Schmidt (Debbie Does Dallas). HUMOR ABUSE will begin previews on Thursday, February 19 and open Tuesday, March 10 in a limited engagement at New York City Center – Stage II (131 West 55th Street). HUMOR ABUSE is the unique story of Pisoni’s upbringing as the youngest member of the Pickle Family Circus, the Bay Area’s tiny big top that entertained thousands of people worldwide and launched the careers of several legendary performers. Filled with the clowning that Pisoni learned at his father’s knee, and the wonder, heartache and complexity of stepping into (and out of) his father’s shoes, HUMOR ABUSE shows that running away with the circus isn’t always all fun and games. The creative team for HUMOR ABUSE will be announced shortly. BIOGRAPHY FOR HUMOR ABUSE ERICA SCHMIDT’s directing credits include: Rent (Tokyo); Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Sorcerer and Copland’s The Tender Land (all at Bard Summer Scape); Carnival (The Paper Mill Playhouse); People Be Heard (Playwrights Horizons); Trust (The Play Company, Callaway Award nominee); As You Like It (The Public Theater/NYSF, chashama and New York International Fringe Festival 2000 Winner for Best Direction); Debbie Does Dallas (wrote the adaptation and directed Off-Broadway at the Jane Street); Spanish Girl (Second Stage Uptown); Romeo and Juliet (Outdoor Garage). College and University work includes: Buried Child and R&J (The Juilliard School); Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards (The McCarter’s Berlind Theater, Princeton University); Top Girls (Fordham University). TICKETING INFORMATION FOR HUMOR ABUSE
Performance schedule will be announced shortly. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, MTC has become one of the country’s most prominent and prestigious theatre companies. MTC productions have earned a total of 16 Tony Awards and five Pulitzer Prizes, an accomplishment unparalleled by a New York theatrical institution. Renowned MTC productions include Top Girls; From Up Here; Come Back, Little Sheba; The Receptionist; LoveMusik; Blackbird; Translations; Shining City; Rabbit Hole; Doubt; Proof; The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife; Kimberly Akimbo; Love! Valour! Compassion!; Sylvia; Four Dogs and a Bone; Putting It Together; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Crimes of the Heart; and Ain’t Misbehavin’. This season, MTC’s Broadway stage was renamed the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). The landmarked theatre has been the institution’s home on Broadway since 2003 and was rehabilitated by MTC following a two-year, $35 million capital campaign. In addition, MTC operates two theatres at New York City Center (131 West 55th Street), its Off-Broadway home since 1984. Individual ticketing information and performance schedules for each show will be announced in the coming weeks.
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