Playwrights Horizons has announced its 2018/2019 season of six new works, starting with a new play by Craig Lucas, to be presented at the theater company’s home at 416 West 42nd Street.
The season will begin with the New York premiere of I was Most alive With You, written and directed by Obie award winner Craig Lucas.
His work includes Small Tragedy, Three Postcards, Prayer for My Enemy at Playwrights; as well as Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless, Amélie and The Light in the Piazza.
Previews will begin on Friday, August 31, 2018 at Playwrights Horizons’ Mainstage Theater with the help of a grant from The Roy Cockrum Foundation.
Next up is The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa FastHorse (What Would Crazy Horse Do?), directed by Tony Award nominee Moritz von Stuelpnagel, presented at Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater, beginning October 2018.
Noura, by and featuring Lucille Lortel Award winner Heather Raffo, is being presented at Playwrights Horizons’ Mainstage Theater in association with Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, DC), beginning November 2018.
If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must be a Muhfucka by Tori Sampson (This Land Was Made, Cadillac Crew, Where Butterflies Go in the Winter), directed by Tony Award nominee and Obie and Lucille Lortel awards winner Liesl Tommy, plays at Playwrights Horizons’ Mainstage Theater, beginning February 2019.
The Pain of My Belligerence, a Playwrights Horizons commissioned play written by and featuring Halley Feiffer, is slated to be presented at Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater, beginning April 2019.
And A Strange Loop, a new musical with book, music and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson directed by Stephen Brackett (The Mad Ones, The Lightning Thief, Buyer & Cellar) is being presented in association with Page 73.
A Strange Loop, developed at Musical Theatre Factory, one of Playwrights Horizons’ resident companies, will begin performances in May 2019 at Playwrights Horizons’ Mainstage Theater.