Next Theatre Replaces War of the Newts With Dying City

Next Theatre Company has announced that it will replace its world premiere adaptation of Karel Capek’s War With the Newts with Christopher Shinn’s play, Dying City, to run February 5-March 8 at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, with an opening on February 9. The theater plans to present Newts in its 2009-2010 season, citing “financial constraints” as the cause for the postponement.

Dying City, to be directed by Jason Loewith, is about a widow whose husband died in Iraq, and her husband’s identical twin brother who arrives on her doorstep looking for a confidant and a companion in grief.

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