Christopher Abbot, David Cale, Darren Goldstein, Lisa Emery, Elizabeth Jasicki, and Richad Topol will star in The New Group's production of Kevin Elyot's Mouth to Mouth, to run October 20-December 13 at the Acorn Theatre. The production, to be directed by Mark Brokaw, will open officially on November 6. The play centers around Frank, a gay writer living with AIDS, who may have played an unscrupulous part in the unraveling of his best girlfriend's family.

Up next, Scott Elliott will direct Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, January 13-March 7. This trilogy of plays re-imagines the Oresteia, bringing the intense familial conflicts of this classic story to a tightly wound New England town.Then, Ian Morgan will direct Handball, by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, which will begin previews on April 27. In the work, a handball court, earmarked to become a dog run, becomes a battlefield in a quickly gentrifying neighborhood.

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