Playwrights Horizons Announces 2015-16 Season of New York and World Premieres
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Playwrights Horizons has announced the six productions of its 2015-16 season, which will include two world premieres and six New York premieres.
The season will kick off with the New York premiere of The Christians, a new play by Lucas Hnath. Directed by Obie Award winner Les Waters, the play is described as an "unflinching look at faith in America – and its power to unite or divide." Previews will begin August 28.
The New York premiere of HIR, a new play written by Obie Award winner Taylor Mac and directed by Niegel Smith, will run at Playwrights Horizons from October-December. The subversive comedy follows Isaac, who has returned from the wars to help take care of his ailing father, only to discover a household in revolt.
From November-January, the company will present the New York premiere of a new play by Jordan Harrison, Marjorie Prime. Directed by Obie Award winner Anne Kauffman, this new work follows 86-year-old Marjorie who has a handsome new companion who’s programmed to feed the story of her life back to her.
The season's final New York premiere will be Danai Gurira's Familiar, directed by Rebecca Taichman from February-April 2016. In this rowdy play, Gurira "pitches tradition against assimilation, drawing a loving portrait of a family: the customs they keep, and the secrets they bury."
The 2015-16 Playwrights Horizons season will also feature the world premiere of Antlia Pneumatica by Anne Washburn, from March-May 2016. Obie Award winner Ken Rus Schmoll is set to direct this Playwrights Horizons commission which takes place in a ranch house deep in Texas Hill Country where a once tight-knit group of friends reunites to bury one of their own.
The season will conclude with another world premiere: Gregory S. Moss' Indian Summer. This Playwrights commission will be directed by Carolyn Cantor from May-June 2016. The tale follows Daniel who, abandoned by his mom, is consigned to spend summer with granddad in a Rhode Island beach town. This romantic comedy examines "a passing fling that could last a lifetime."
Playwrights Horizons is a writer’s theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers and lyricists and to the production of their new work. The 2015-16 season productions are supported in part by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
