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Dates Set for Colman Domingo and Adam Rapp Plays at The Vineyard

Colman Domingo
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Colman Domingo
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

The Vineyard will kick off its 2009-2010 season with writer/performer Colman Domingo’s A Boy and His Soul, to run September 9-October 18, with an opening set for September 24. The solo show explores the life-experiences of a young African-American man in 1980s Philadelphia, propelled by the beat of classic soul music. Tony Kelly will direct.

Next up, Adam Rapp will direct his new play, The Metal Children, February 3-March 14, with an opening on February 21. The piece follows the controversy created in a small town when a Young Adult novel about teenage pregnancy is banned, igniting heated emotions over abortion, religious beliefs, and censorship.

The Vineyard will also co-produce the new musical, The Burnt Part Boys at Playwrights Horizons in a May/June 2010 production. The show features a book by Mariana Elder with lyrics by Nathan Tysen and music by Chris Miller. Erica Schmidt will direct. Set in West Virginia in 1962, the musical follows a group of teenagers whose fathers were killed ten years earlier in a tragic coal mining accident.

As previously announced, Tony Award winner Susan Stroman will direct and choreograph a developmental production of John Kander and Fred Ebb’s The Scottsboro Boys at the Vineyard in the spring of 2010. The musical features a book by David Thompson, and is about the famous 1930s Scottsboro Case in which a group of innocent African American teenagers are unjustly accused of a heinous crime. In addition, the theater will present a lab production of Adam Bock’s The Typographer’s Dream, which follows three lonely, intertwined souls navigating the existential boundaries of their jobs, selves and one another. Anne Kauffman will direct.

For more information, visit www.vineyardtheatre.org.