Bock, Brown, Ruhl, et al. Set for Playwrights Horizons’ 2007-2008 Season

Playwrights Horizons has announced the plays for its 2007-2008 season. Performers, creative team members, and performance dates will be announced later.

The season will begin in August with the world premiere of Kate Fodor’s 1000 Saints You Should Know, directed by Ethan McSweeny. This new play — by the author of Hannah and Martin — concerns a church cleaning woman and a priest who is forced to resign his position under uncertain circumstances. In September, the theater will present the world premiere of Sarah Treem’s A Feminine Ending, directed by Blair Brown, which focuses on an aspiring female composer whose grand plan for her future begins to unravel after answering her mother’s distress call.

Next up in November is the world premiere of Jordan Harrison’s Doris to Darlene: A Cautionary Valentine, directed by Obie Award winner Les Waters. The play, which is set in three different time periods, concerns a pop singer named Darlene, the composer Richard Wagner, and a teenager who obsesses over Darlene’s music (as well as his music teacher).

In 2008, Playwrights Horizons will produce two New York premieres: Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl, the author of The Clean House, about a woman who picks up a ringing cell phone and finds herself entangled in the underbelly of a dead man’s life, and Adam Bock’s The Drunken City, directed by Trip Cullman, about three brides-to-be whose lives change after a chance encounter on a bar crawl.

For more information, visit www.playwrightshorizons.org.