Sigourney Weaver to Star in Gurney’s Crazy Mary at Playwrights Horizons

Sigourney Weaver will star in A.R. Gurney’s Crazy Mary, which will get its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in May. The play tells the story of a mother and son who visit their crazy relative, who barely speaks, in an attempt to account for the family inheritance. Weaver’s husband, Jim Simpson — the artistic director of the Flea Theater — will helm the production. The three artists previously worked together on Mrs. Farnsworth at the Flea.

Weaver previously starred at Playwrights Horizons in Gemini. Her Broadway credits include Hurlyburly, for which she received a Tony Award nomination, Sex and Longing, and The Constant Wife. She is a three-time Academy Award nominee for Aliens, Gorillas in the Mist, and Working Girl.

Bruce Norris’ The Pain and the Itch, directed by Anna D. Shapiro, will kick off the season on September 1. Seen previously at the Steppenwolf Theatre Comapny, it tells the story of a family that unravels during one seemingly average Thanksgiving. Next up, in October, is the New York premiere of Tanya Barfield’s Blue Door, a two-hander about an African-American mathematician who begins to lose his grip on reality. The production will be directed by Leigh Silverman, who most recently helmed Well.

David Cale and Jonathan Kresiberg’s musical Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky, about a former country-and-western star who ends up in an unusual partnership with a 20-year-old girl, arrives in November under the direction of Joe Calarco. It will be followed in January by Richard Nelson’s Frank’s Home, about the architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his attempts to reconcile with his adult children, to be directed by Tony Award winner Robert Falls. The season will end with the world premiere of Adam Rapp’s grim fairy tale, Essential Self-Defense, to be directed by Carolyn Cantor.

For more information, call 212-279-4200 or visit playwrightshorizons.org.