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Wallace Shawn and Bernard Weinraub Added to New Group Season

Wallace Shawn
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
Wallace Shawn
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)

The New Group will present new plays by Wallace Shawn and veteran New York Times writer Bernard Weinraub as part of its 2006-2007 season. No casting, director, or creative team have been announced for these productions.

In January 2007, the company will present Shawn’s The Fever, a solo play in which an anonymous narrator wakes up in a war-torn country with a terrible fever, unable to reconcile the privileged life she has enjoyed with her new surroundings. In recent seasons, The New Group has presented Shawn’s plays Aunt Dan and Lemon and The Music Teacher, and he co-starred in their critically acclaimed production of Hurlyburly.

In the spring will come Weinraub’s The Accomplices, which is about a World War II resistance fighter who finds opposition from Franklin Roosevelt’s administration and the Jewish Establishment.

The New Group’s season will begin with their production of Jay Presson Allen’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row, September 20-November 11. The show will be directed by Scott Elliott and star Tony Award winner Cynthia Nixon in the title role. The supporting cast features Richie Coster, Lisa Emery, Halley Wegryn Gross, Caroline Lagerfelt, John Pankow, Matthew Rauch, Emily Bicks, Betsy Hogg, Zoe Kazan, Caity Quinn, and Sarah Steele.

For more information, visit www.thenewgroup.org.