As previously announced, the season will begin with Joel Zwick's production of Hershey Felder's Beethoven, As I Knew Him, to run August 19-October 12, with an opening set for August 27. The Geffen will also present Felder's George Gershwin Alone, also directed by Zwick, December 19-January 4.

Also on tap will be Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan's two-character drama By The Waters of Babylon, directed by Richard Seyd (November 5-December 7); the world premiere of Pulitzer winner Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still, about a journalistic team and longtime couple recovering from an assignment in the Middle East, to be directed by Daniel Sullivan (February 11-March 15), and the world premiere of Jonthan Brielle's musical Nightmare Alley, set in the world of a carnival, directed by Gilbert Cates (June 24-July 26).

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