Lindsay-Abaire, Mee, Nottage, Schulberg, et al. Set for Brave New World Series

Playwrights David Lindsay-Abaire, Charles Mee, Lynn Nottage, and Budd Schulberg will be among the participants in Brave New World Repertory Theatre’s sixth annual Play Reading Salon Series, to be held January-May 2009.

The series features Brooklyn-based Equity actors performing rehearsed, intimate, and evocative readings of classic plays penned by the four above named playwrights living in Brooklyn, as well as the deceased Arthur Miller. Lindsay-Abaire, Mee, Nottage, and Schulberg will also participate in talkbacks with the audience.

The series will begin with Miller’s The Crucible, to be directed by Claire Beckman at The Old Stone House in Park Slope, January 24 & 25. Nottage’s Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine will be directed by Alvin Hippolyte at Akwaaba Mansion in Bedford-Stuyvesant, February 21 & 22. Mee’s A Perfect Wedding will be directed by Ezra Barnes at the BRICstudio in Fort Greene, March 14 & 15.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Lindsay-Abaire, currently represented on Broadway by Shrek the Musical, will be directing his own play, Fuddy Meers at Prospect Park Rooftop in Park Slope/7th Avenue, April 18 & 19. The series will conclude with Schulberg’s On the Waterfront, to be directed by Timothy Smith & Claire Beckman at the Waterfront Museum Barge in Red Hook, May 16 & 17.