2004 - 2005 Season

Hedda Gabler

text
Henrik Ibsen

translation
Christopher Hampton

direction
Ivo van Hove

Performances begin September 10, 2004
Flemish director Ivo van Hove is the Artistic Director of The Netherlands’ leading repertory company, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, and is known throughout Europe as one of the continent’s true theatrical innovators. New York audiences may remember his visually rich and emotionally complex NYTW productions of More Stately Mansions and A Streetcar Named Desire. This ingeniously imaginative director returns to NYTW with Ibsen’s masterpiece Hedda Gabler. Elizabeth Marvel, who memorably played Blanche in van Hove’s production of Streetcar at NYTW, will play Hedda.

A Number

text
Caryl Churchill

direction
James Macdonald

Performances begin November 16, 2004
A spellbinding new play from Caryl Churchill (Far Away, Serious Money, Mad Forest, Cloud Nine) whom The Times of London calls “the most daring of our dramatists.” As Churchill’s remarkable body of work continues to grow, her plays seem to be growing more and more brilliantly eloquent. This latest play is a penetrating inquiry into the intersection of morality, nature versus nurture, and human cloning. When A Number premiered at London’s Royal Court Theatre, The Telegraph said, “What a tremendous play this is, moving, thought-provoking, and dramatically thrilling.” NYTW continues its long relationship with Caryl Churchill with this production. Multi-talented actor, playwright, and director Sam Shepard, not seen on stage for many years, will play Salter, the father who must look at the faces of his ethically questionable actions.

Eyewitness Blues

text
Mildred Ruiz and Steven Sapp

music
Antoine Drye, Carlos Pimentel, Paul Jonathan Thompson

direction
Talvin Wilks

Performances begin March 1, 2005
The story of a hard-luck horn player named Junior comes to life in this original work by Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz, two collaborators of NYTW’s 2001 production of Slanguage, and musicians Antoine Drye, Carlos Pimentel, and Paul Jonathan Thompson. Using elements often outside the focus of mainstream theater – blues, flamenco, and spoken-word poetry – Eyewitness Blues explores and expands the very forms that theater can take.

Score

direction
Anne Bogart

adaptation
Jocelyn Clarke

creation
SITI Company

Performances begin April 26, 2005
In Score, a solo theatre piece from the acclaimed SITI Company, actor Tom Nelis portrays Leonard Bernstein and his passionate, glorious relationship with music. With a score including music by Brahms, Haydn, and Mozart, director Anne Bogart and writer Jocelyn Clarke (who adapted Bernstein’s own writings) serve up Bernstein’s famous flamboyance as a showman, teacher, tastemaker, and ego-driven charmer, honoring one of the greatest of American figures. Performed in repertory with Songs from an Unmade Bed.

SONGS FROM AN UNMADE BED
lyrics
Mark Campbell

music
Debra Barsha, Mark Bennett, Peter Foley, Jenny Giering, Peter Golub, Jake Heggie, Stephen Hoffman,
Lance Horne, Gihieh Lee, Steve Marzullo, Brendan Milburn, Chris Miller, Greg Pliska, Duncan Sheik, Jeffrey Stock,
and Joseph Thalken

direction
David Schweizer

Performances begin May 12, 2005

One lyricist and 17 composers join forces to create a unique music/theatre event in Songs from an Unmade Bed, a solo work that propels a smart, resilient, wry, and ultimately romantic gay New Yorker through the heartaches and triumphs of love in the big city. Mark Campbell's lyrics on the endlessly surprising experience of urban romance have been set by an eclectic roster of today’s musical artists, including Debra Barsha, Mark Bennett, Peter Foley, Jenny Giering, Peter Golub, Jake Heggie, Stephen Hoffman, Lance Horne, Gihieh Lee, Steve Marzullo, Brendan Milburn, Chris Miller, Greg Pliska, Duncan Sheik, Jeffrey Stock, and Joseph Thalken. Michael Winther performs this funny, sexy, elegiac, ironic work with direction by David Schweizer and musical direction by Kimberly Grigsby. Performed in repertory with Score.

This is the roster as of 03.21.05. Roster for 2005-06 season coming soon!
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