Works by Lucas, Rebeck, Rapp & Silver on Tap at Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons will kick off its 2008-2009 season with works by the all-star roster of Craig Lucas, Theresa Rebeck, Adam Rapp and Nicky Silver. Dates and casting have not been announced, but the details set thus far are as follows:

Three Changes by Nicky Silver
This world premiere begins previews in August at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater, directed by Wilson Milam. In this new dark comedy by the author of Pterodactyls, The Food Chain, Raised in Captivity and Fit to be Tied, Nate and Laurel are a comfortably married, Upper West Side couple —until Nate's wayward brother Hal arrives from Hollywood. What at first seems a casual visit and a chance for family to reconnect is quickly revealed as something more ominous.

Kindness by Adam Rapp
Rapp Essential Self-Defense, Red Light Winter will direct the world premiere of his new work in the fall at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater. An ailing mother and her teenage son flee Illinois and a crumbling marriage for the relative calm and safety of a midtown Manhattan hotel. Mom holds tickets to a popular musical about love and redemption. Her son, a gifted student currently enrolled at a prestigious military academy, isn't interested. So Mom takes the kindly cabdriver instead, while the boy entertains a visitor from down the hall, an enigmatic young woman seeking solace after a tumultuous, potentially dangerous evening.

Prayer for My Enemy by Craig Lucas
This New York premiere will be presented in the fall at the Mainstage Theater, directed by Bartlett Sher, who collaborated with Lucas on The Light in the Piazza. It's a hell of a night for the Noones: Father Austin is watching his nature shows and trying to keep from falling off the wagon, mother Karen's keeping an eye on Austin, son Billy's just back from Iraq, and pregnant daughter Marianne's upset about the state of her marriage to Tad, Billy's childhood friend who may still harbor a crush on him. With the Red Sox battling the Yankees for the 2004 AL title, an American family's long-held secrets are dragged to the fore. Lucas' plays include Small Tragedy at Playwrights Horizons, Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless and The Dying Gaul.

Our House by Theresa Rebeck
The latest New York premiere by Rebeck Mauritius, The Water's Edge, Bad Dates will be produced at the Mainstage Theater in winter/spring of 2009; no director has been annnounced. In a cautionary tale ripped from today's headlines, a power-hungry TV mogul faced with dwindling ratings installs America's favorite news anchor as host of a popular reality show. Meanwhile, in Middle America, a houseful of roommates bicker over high-stakes real-world conflicts: Merv doesn't clean the bathroom, someone ate Alice's yogurt, and the rent is long past due. When reality suddenly collides with reality TV, we find ourselves front and center in the thorniest hostage drama since Waco.