The Simpsons-Inspired Play Mr. Burns & More Set for Playwrights Horizons’ 2013-14 Season
Playwrights Horizons has announced its 2013-14 season which will kick off with Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play (a new play inspired by TV's long-running The Simpsons) and more. The season will also feature new shows from Kim Rosenstock, Marlene Mayer and more.
Directed by Steve Cosson, Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play features music by Michael Friedman. A paean to live theater, and to the resilience of Bart Simpson through the ages, Mr. Burns is an animated exploration of how the pop culture of one era might evolve into the mythology of another. Washburn’s dark comedy propels us forward nearly a century, following a new civilization stumbling into its future. The show will begin previews on August 23 at the Mainstage Theatre.
Up next is the world premiere production of Marlene Mayer's The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters, which begins October 18 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Directed by Lisa Peterson, the play tells the story of Aubrey, a determined romantic who believes she’s met her soulmate in Calvin, a boozing womanizer. Populated by an assortment of eccentrics, mystics and front porch philosophers, Meyer’s new play is an unexpected love story.
Madeleine George's The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence will follow in November/December at the Mainstage Theater. Directed by Leigh Silverman, the play tells the story of four Watsons: the trusty sidekick to Sherlock Holmes, the loyal engineer who built Bell’s first telephone, the unstoppable super-computer that became reigning Jeopardy! champ and an amiable techno-dweeb who, in the present day, is just looking for love.
Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra, a new play by Kirk Lynn, is then slated to play the Peter Jay Sharp Theater in April/May 2014. In Kama Sutra, Carla agrees to marry Reggie on one condition: to break down any walls between them, they’ll reenact their individual sexual histories with one another, good and bad, for better or worse. Years later, those stories bring unexpected hope to their household, now forced to confront those barriers a second time. Anne Kaufman will direct.
The New York premiere of Fly By Night: A New Musical is scheduled to play at the Horizons Mainstage Theater in May/June 2014. Conceived by Kim Rosenstock and written by Rosenstock, Once alum Will Connolly and Michael Mitnick, Fly By Night is the story of a melancholy sandwich-maker whose hum-drum life is intersected by two entrancing sisters. Set against the northeast blackout of 1965, Fly By Night is a tale about making your way and discovering hope in a world beset by darkness.