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Champlin, Stern Set for Transport Group’s 2008-2009 Season

Cheryl Stern
Cheryl Stern

Transport Group, which won a special 2007 Drama Desk Award, has announced the two shows for its upcoming season, with preliminary casting.

First up will be Joe Calarco’s production of Irwin Shaw’s 1936 anti-war play Bury the Dead, to run October 31-November 23, with an opening set for November 9. OBIE Award winner Donna Lynne Champlin will star. Next will be the world premiere musical Being Audrey, March 27-April 26, to be directed by Jack Cummings III. The piece, which is written by Ellen Weiss, James Hindman, and Cheryl Stern, focuses on a New York woman, to be played by Stern, whose world threatens to collapse and who takes refuge in a romantic adventure inspired by the films of Audrey Hepburn.

For more information, visit www.transportgroup.org.