Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman

FOLLIES

February 8 - 11, 2007

New York City Center Encores!

West 55th Street (6th & 7th Avenues)

212/581-1212

www.nycitycenter.org/encores/

The first production in the 14th season of the acclaimed Encores! series, celebrating the great Broadway revue. Follies (1971) showcases Sondheim's brilliant pastiche of  songs from the teens, ‘20s and ‘30s in the style of Gershwin, Berlin and Porter.

Harley Granville-Barker

THE MADRAS HOUSE

February 2 - March 11, 2007

Mint Theater Company

311 W. 43rd Street, 3rd floor (Eighth Avenue)

212/868-4444

www.minttheater.org

Harley Granville-Barker’s comedy The Madras House (1909), a brilliant, electrifying play on the subject of sex, shopping and social embarrassment, has been seen only  once in New York, in a 1921 production presented by the Neighborhood Playhouse.

Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock
THE APPLE TREE
December 14, 2006-March 11, 2007
Roundabout Theatre Company
Studio 54
254 West 54th Street (Broadway & 8th Avenue)
212/719-1300
www.roundabouttheatre.org

The Apple Tree (1966) is an evening of three one-act musicals about men, women, and temptation, adapted from stories by Mark Twain, Frank R. Stockton, and Jules Feiffer.  This production is based on the 2005 New York City Center Encores! revival.

Harley Granville-Barker

THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE

December 6, 2006 - March 25, 2007

Atlantic Theater Company

336 West 20th Street (8th & 9th Avenues)

212/691-5919

www.atlantictheater.org

The Voysey Inheritance (1905) is the portrait of a wealthy family coming apart when a son discovers the secret of how his aging father amassed the family fortune. David Mamet, the contemporary master of the conflict between morals and money, has adapted Granville-Barker’s classic play for this production.

Tennessee Williams
IN THE BAR OF A TOKYO HOTEL
February 2 - 18, 2007
White Horse Theater Company
The Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex
312 West 36th Street (8th Avenue)
212/8868-4444
www.whitehorsetheater.com

Written during an experimental phase in Williams' career, In the Bar of A Tokyo Hotel (1968) depicts the tragic demise of a famous American painter and his desperate wife, employing an innovative  use of language, stark minimalism, brashness of character and multi-layered symbolism.

R.C. Sherriff
JOURNEY’S END
Previews begin February 8, 2007
Opens February 22, 2007
Belasco Theatre
111 West 44th Street (6th & 7th Avenues)
800/432-7250 www.shubertorganization.com/theatres/belasco.asp

Based on the author’s own experiences in the trenches during World War I, Journey’s End (1929) follows a group of British soldiers who await their fate on the front lines. This is a remounting of the production that played in London on the play’s 75th anniversary.

Peter Weiss

MARAT SADE

February 2 – March 11, 2007

Classical Theatre of Harlem
Harlem School of the Arts

645 St. Nicholas Avenue (West 141st Street)

212/868-4444
www.classicaltheatreofharlem.org

This seminal work of 20th century drama (1966), depicting the French  Revolution as enacted by the inmates of an asylum under the direction of the Marquis de Sade, explores the concept of democracy and if it is possible, given the realities and limitations of human nature.

J. M. Barrie

MARY ROSE

Previews begin February 1, 2007
Opens February 18, 2007

Vineyard Theatre

108 East 15th Street (Union Square East)

212/353-0303

www.vineyardtheatre.org

J. M. Barrie’s romantic drama (1920), about a girl who disappears only to return mysteriously twenty days later with no memory of the time that has passed, tells a story of love, loss, ghosts and the living.

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE,
in repertory with THE JEW OF MALTA

January 6 - March 11, 2007

Theatre for a New Audience

The Duke on 42nd Street

229 West 42nd Street (7th & 8th Avenues)

212/229-2819

www.tfana.org

Did Shakespeare write The Merchant of Venice (c1594-98) in response to his contemporary Marlowe's The Jew of Malta  (c1589-91)? Audiences can decide when  they see a single company of actors perform the plays in repertory for the first time in New York City.

I. L. Peretz, Alexandra Aron, Glen Berger and Frank London
A NIGHT IN THE OLD MARKETPLACE
January 27 - February 14, 2007
Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre
The Triad Theatre
158 West 72nd Street, 2nd floor (Amsterdam Avenue)
800/994-3347
www.folksbiene.org

A new musical in English and Yiddish based on I. L. Peretz's dramatic poem, Bay Nakht af dem Altn Mark (1907), about an insane Badkhu (master of ceremonies, or jester) dancing on a bridge between the worlds of the living and the dead.

John Murray and Allen Boretz
ROOM SERVICE
Opens November 28, 2006
The Peccadillo Theater Company
SoHo Playhouse
15 Vandam Street (6th Avenue & Varick Street)
212/691-1555

A classic screwball comedy, Room Service (1937) tells the story of an unscrupulous Broadway producer in search of a backer for his new show. It remains not only a very funny play, but also a persuasive study of New York theater in the 1930s.

Lillian Hellman
TOYS IN THE ATTIC
January 5 - February 18, 2007
Pearl Theatre Company
80 St. Marks Place (First Avenue)
212/598-9802
www.pearltheatre.org

Lillian Hellman's last great play (1960) follows a single day in the life of the Brenier family in New Orleans as love turns destructive, innocence becomes dangerous, and truth wins out - no matter the cost.