Primary Stages’ 2011-2012 Season to Feature Works by Charles Busch, Beth Henley, Theresa Rebeck, and More

Primary Stages has announced the productions which will comprise its 2011-2012 season, which will be presented at 59E59 Theaters.

The season will open with the world premiere of a new comedy commissioned by Primary Stages, Olive and the Bitter Herbs (July 26-September 3) by Tony nominated playwright, Charles Busch. The work concerns actress Olive Fisher, a ghost in her mirror, and her neighbors who invite themselves over for a Passover Seder.

Next up will be the New York premiere of In Mother Words (September 20-October 29), conceived by Susan R. Rose and Joan Stein, and written by Leslie Ayvazian, David Cale, Jessica Goldberg, Beth Henley, Lameece Issaq, Lisa Loomer, Michele Lowe, Marco Pennette, Lisa Ramirez, Theresa Rebeck, Luanne Rice, Annie Weisman and Cheryl L. West, under the direction of Lisa Peterson. The piece shatters traditional notions about parenthood, unveils its inherent comedy and celebrates the deeply personal truths that span generations.

In 2012, Primary Stages will present the world premiere of Kate Fodor’s new comedy, Rx (January 24-March 3). In it, a woman joins the clinical trial for a new drug targeting workplace depression, which gets messy when she falls in love with her doctor, who himself is trying to enroll into a drug trial targeting heartbreak.

The season will conclude with the New York premiere of the new play, The Morini Strad (March 20-April 28), by Willy Holtzman directed by Casey Childs. Inspired by the true New York story of concert violinist Erica Morini and her legendary Stradivari violin, the play is a delicate duet between Erica, a difficult and former child prodigy, and Brian, a stubbornly independent violin maker she hires to restore and then sell her beloved Strad.

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