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TO BE OR NOT TO BE
A world-premiere play.
Based on the Motion Picture To Be or Not to Be
By Nick Whitby
Directed by Casey Nicholaw
Previews begin September 11, 2008

Based on Ernst Lubitsch’s classic 1942 film, this hilarious black comedy is an ingenious commentary on World War II and an inspired tribute to the joys of the theatre.

THE AMERICAN PLAN
A Broadway premiere.
By Richard Greenberg
Directed by David Grindley
Previews begin January 2, 2009

A tentative courtship unfolds at a Catskills summer resort in the 1960’s. This exciting new look at an acclaimed play is from the Tony-Award® winning author of Take Me Out.

ACCENT ON YOUTH
A new production of a comic gem.
By Samson Raphaelson
Directed by Daniel Sullivan
Previews begin April 2009

With Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce, under the direction of Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan, this fresh look at Samson Raphaelson’s brilliantly clever comedy is a rollicking salute to love’s possibilities, both on stage and off.

ROMANTIC POETRY
A world-premiere musical.
Book & Lyrics by John Patrick Shanley
Music by Henry Krieger
Directed by John Patrick Shanley
Previews begin October 1, 2008

From the Tony Award® - and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Doubt and the Grammy Award winning and Tony Award nominated composer of Dreamgirls comes a big-hearted musical about true love today.

RUINED
A world-premiere co-production
with the Goodman Theatre.
By Lynn Nottage
Directed by Kate Whoriskey
Previews begin January 21, 2009

From the Obie Award-winning author of such plays as Intimate Apparel and Fabulation comes this haunting, probing work set in Democratic Republic of Congo, where a shrewd businesswoman provides precarious shelter to women whose bodies have become a battlefield.

BACK BACK BACK
A timely new play.
By Itamar Moses
Directed by Daniel Aukin
Previews begin October 30, 2008

From the acclaimed writer of last season's MTC Stage II hit The Four of Us comes a stirring new drama about recklessness and reckoning in America's favorite pastime.