A John Patrick Shanley World Premiere Joins Manhattan Theatre Club's 2015-16 Season
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Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize, and Academy Award winner John Patrick Shanley returns to the Manhattan Theatre Club to present the world premiere of his new play Prodigal Son, set to open at the theater's off-Broadway venue at New York City Center – Stage I this winter. Performances are scheduled to begin January 19, 2016, in advance of a February 9 opening.
Prodigal Son is described as "a passionate, explosive portrait of a young man on the verge of salvation or destruction." The story follows a gifted yet violent 17-year-old boy from the Bronx who suddenly finds himself in a private school in New Hampshire. Two faculty members subsequently struggle to decide whether the boy is a star or a disaster.
Shanley, whose previous MTC collaborations include the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning Doubt and the Tony-nominated Outside Mullingar, will also direct the new play. Prodigal Son's cast and creative team will be announced in the coming weeks.
As previously announced, MTC's 2015-16 Broadway season will include productions of Sam Shepard's Fool for Love, starring Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell, and Richard Greenberg's Our Mother’s Brief Affair, starring Linda Lavin. The off-Broadway season will include David Lindsay-Abaire's new comedy Ripcord, directed by David Hyde Pierce and starring Marylouise Burke and Mary Louise Wilson; the American premiere of Nick Payne's Incognito; and Nick Jones' new comedy Important Hats of the Twentieth Century.
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