Baryshnikov, Eckert, Glass, van Hove to Be Part of NYTW Season

A presentation of four Samuel Beckett one-act plays featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov will highlight the New York Theatre Workshop’s 2007-2008 season.

The quartet of one-acts, which will be seen December 2007-January 2008, are Act Without Words I, Act Without Words II, Eh, Joe, and Rough for Theatre. They will be directed by Obie Award winner JoAnne Akalaitis and feature original music by Philip Glass. The cast will include Bill Camp, Karen Kandel, and David Neumann, along with Baryshnikov.

The NYTW season will also include Rinde Eckert’s new piece Horizon, directed by David Schweizer (June-July 2007), in which Eckert will play Reinhart Poole, an unconventional theologian and ethics teacher who has been asked to resign his position; Betty Shameih’s Black Eyed, directed by Sam Gold (July-August 2007), about four Arab women who meet in the afterlife; and Naomi Wallace’s Things of Dry Hours (Winter 2008), about a white factory worker in Depression-era Alabama who seeks sanctuary with a black Sunday school teacher.

Also on the schedule for Fall 2007 is a new production by director Ivo van Hove, who helmed NYTW’s controversial productions of Hedda Gabler and A Streetcar Named Desire, and a new work by the award-winning troupe Elevator Repair Service, to bow in Spring 2008.

For more information, call 212-460-5475 or visit www.nytw.org.